Nana Buluku
Nana Buluku is the Supreme Deity of the
Fon from
Dahomey.
Nana Buluku is an androgynous deity. Like the
Judeo-Christian god, Nana Buluku created the Universe and all that exists in it. Twins were born to Nana Buluku: the moon god
Mawu and the sun god
Lisa.
Nana Buluku was also incorporated into the
Yorùbá religion as
Yemaja, the female thought of the male creator
Ashe and the effective cause of all further creation.
Worship of the deity was spread to the rest of the world, especially through centuries of captured slaves who were purchased and sold all over the
Americas. She is celebrated as
Nanã in Brasilian
Candomblé Ketu, where she is pictured as a very old woman, older than creation itself; as
Nana Buruku, primordial swamp spirit in
Orisha tradition.
[Nana Buruku in Ifa tradition]Today the Yorùbá religion, and all its branches, is still practiced by 10 of millions of people all over the world and Nana Buluku has an honored place in it.
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