Nana Buluku

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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 in the New World

Nanã in Candomblé

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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