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  2. List of love and lust deities - Wikipedia

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    A love deity is a deity in mythology associated with romance, sex, lust, or sexuality. Love deities are common in mythology and are found in many polytheistic religions. Female sex goddesses are often associated with beauty and other traditionally feminine attributes.

  3. Erzulie - Wikipedia

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    Erzulie Fréda Dahomey, the Rada aspect of Erzulie, is the Haitian African spirit of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers. She wears three wedding rings, one for each husband - Damballa, Agwe and Ogoun. [3]

  4. Women in Africa - Wikipedia

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    A Congolese woman asserts women's rights with the message 'The mother is as important as the father' printed on her pagne, 2015.. The culture, evolution, and history of women who were born in, live in, and are from the continent of Africa reflect the evolution and history of the African continent itself.

  5. Oshun - Wikipedia

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    Shrine to Oshun in the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove. Oshun (also Ọṣun, Ochún, and Oxúm) is the Yoruba orisha associated with love, sexuality, fertility, femininity, water, destiny, divination, purity, and beauty, and the Osun River, and of wealth and prosperity in Voodoo.

  6. List of Yoruba deities - Wikipedia

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    Ọ̀ṣun - orisha who presides over love, intimacy, beauty, wealth, diplomacy and of the Osun river; Ọya - orisha of the Niger River; associated with wind, lightning, fertility, fire, and magic. [8] Yemọja - a mother goddess; patron deity of women and of the Ogun river; Yemowo - wife of Ọbàtálá and of the water.

  7. List of African deities and mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of African spirits as well as deities found within the traditional African religions.It also covers spirits as well as deities found within the African religions—which is mostly derived from traditional African religions.

  8. Sarah Baartman - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c. 1789 – 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation:), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoekhoe woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one other woman ...

  9. Africana womanism - Wikipedia

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    Africana womanism is a term coined in the late 1980s by Clenora Hudson-Weems, [1] intended as an ideology applicable to all women of African descent. It is grounded in African culture and Afrocentrism and focuses on the experiences, struggles, needs, and desires of Africana women of the African diaspora.