Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled, Reclaiming the Ancient History and Sacred Heritage of the Vodoun Religion Vol II - Softcover

Mama Zogb�

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9780971624542: Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled, Reclaiming the Ancient History and Sacred Heritage of the Vodoun Religion Vol II

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ISBN 10: 0971624542 ISBN 13: 9780971624542

Publisher: Mami Wata Healers Society of North America Inc., 2005

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Forget about Hollywood stereotypes! This heavily illustrated and thoroughly researched book will fascinate and educate those wanting to understand the nature of the world s oldest Earth religion. The Mami Wata Vodoun is a 10,000 year-old, sacred, ancestral tradition, which has its beginnings in the world's first sacerdotal order of prophetess/priestesses, the Sibyls. It details for the first time, the true role of African women, and their powerful deities, as the world's first matriarchal, sacerdotal orders and the role they played in world civilization. It chronicles their work as oracular queen mothers, and their worship as the original black goddess of all the ancient world. Finally, it reveals them to be the "missing link" and mystery builders of the great temples and civilizations in ancient Ionia, Mycenae, Greece and Rome. The author argues that the matrilineal clans who carry the sacred "ache" (divine power) of the Mami Wata Vodoun were the real clans persecuted and enslaved during the rise of patriarchy, including in the New World. Those who have mocked, feared and minimized African women and African religions, and who have grown weary of an exclusive patriarchal-centered African perspective, on Africa and her religions, will walk away with a totally different out-look once they read this book!

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