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Mami Wata, Mammy Water, or similar is a mermaid, water spirit, and/or goddess in the folklore of parts of Western Africa, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa. Historically, scholars trace her origins to early encounters between Europeans and West Africans in the 15th century, where Mami Wata developed from depictions of European mermaids.
Yemọja is often depicted as a mermaid by a number of devotees, and is associated with water, feminine mysteries, and the moon in some diaspora communities. She is the protector of women. She governs everything pertaining to women; parenting, child safety, love, and healing.
Sedna (Inuktitut: ᓴᓐᓇ, romanized: Sanna, previously Sedna or Sidne) is the goddess of the sea and marine animals in Inuit religion, also known as the Mother of the Sea or Mistress of the Sea. The story of Sedna, which is a creation myth, describes how she came to rule over Adlivun , the Inuit equivalent of the underworld .
In Brazilian folklore, the iara, also known as mãe-d'agua ("lady/mother of the water") is a water-dwelling beauty whom fishermen are prone to fall prey to. [242] [243] According to eighteenth-century sources, she is a long-haired woman who enchant men by night, and those who scucumb die, "drowned by passion". [244]
"The process of becoming a mermaid was quite indirect," says Linden Wolbert, a Los Angeles- based real-life mermaid. An avid swimmer since the age of 3, Wolbert fondly remembers the first time her ...
Abzu, god of fresh water, father of all other gods. Atargatis, fertility goddess tied to fish and identified with a mermaid figure. Enbilulu, god of rivers and canals. Enki, god of water and of the river Tigris. Kulullû, the "fish man", monster servant of Marduk. Marduk, god associated with water, vegetation, judgment, and magic.
Nammu was regarded as the mother of Enki (Ea), as indicated by the myth Enki and Ninmah, the god list An = Anum and a bilingual incantation. [19] However, references to her being his sole parent are less common than the well attested tradition according to which he was one of the children of Anu . [ 21 ]
Iara in an official commemorative stamp by the Brazilian post office (1974). Iara, also spelled Uiara, Yara or Hiara (Portuguese pronunciation:, , , , ) or Mãe das Águas ([ˈmɐ̃j dɐz ˈaɡwɐs], "mother of the waters"), is a figure from Brazilian mythology based on Tupi and Guaraní mythology.