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I love mythology. I just wish we didn’t stop at the Greek and Romans
The African deities are too much! Ala the Igbo earth goddess, ruler of morality, fertility AND the whole underworld, is often depicted with a sword in one hand and a baby in the other - the ultimate babe 
https://twitter.com/syiphee/status/1139156761091432450 …
A few people have asked for more info on these dieities and I will try and put together a thread soon! For now, feel free to check out #DaughtersOfNri, an ancient Nigerian YA fantasy full of Igbo mythology & published by @onwe_press 
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https://tinyurl.com/y3kb5gxq pic.twitter.com/1m0iEGnfh8
My family (I'm Igbo yo!) calls her Ale.
My family's Christian (yay colonization) so they didn't talk about them positively but they didn't think I'd find all of them cool and I just grew up subconsciously still doing our religious practices lmao. I sort of follow the Orisha (part Yoruba).
I think there's different names for her depending on dialect. I've heard my cousins call her Ani.
Yup her name changes slightly depending on the dialect you use. There’s Ala, Ani, Ale some also call her Ali x
Thanks! She was the one I'd make little fruit altars for when I was younger lmao.
I was a weird kid lmao.
Haha love that! And I mean, the best of us were 
Medusa is said to have been based on Wadjet, the Egyptian serpent goddess.pic.twitter.com/gL7aAHkYGN
Also Andromeda, the young woman Perseus saves from the sea monster named Cetus, was a North African princess.pic.twitter.com/rUHRgI1ccG
Love Andromeda! My white-washed fave. I did a thread on her a while back!https://twitter.com/renikamayo/status/1097111404308582400?s=21 …
. It’s all about Andromeda, the Ethiopian goddess who history seems to have forgotten was black 
pic.twitter.com/AFuRGAquHtMore beautiful than the Nereids! I’m working on a novel with her and Perseus.
Love! Let me know when you’re done, I’d love to read it 
Will do! This is an art piece I commissioned a few years back of the two of them.pic.twitter.com/AGbAanDVdZ
A thread of your favorite African deities would be so great 
From where?
I'm asking cause there's a lot. Like a lot. Nigeria has over 30 tribes on it's own, each with their own pantheon of gods and the like. I'm more knowledgeable about the Orisha on my end as I was raised in a Yoruba state in Nigeria.
I apologize for my lack of knowledge of the deities and the numerous tribes. Originally I was meaning it as a general "what are you top faves" but I had no idea of how many there are..
Oh that’s okay! My top fave personally would be Osanyin who’s the Orisha of the forest for the Yoruba tribe. I’m Benin, Igbo, Zulu and Yoruba but was raised in Yoruba states in Nigeria so I’m closer to my Yoruba side.
Osanyin is my family’s Orisha. My grand uncle was a Babalawo and I thought he was the coolest lmao. My family’s very Christian though so they did not want us anywhere around him especially after I said I wanted to be just like him when I grew up as a kid 
Sorry if I just went on a tirade. I don’t get to talk about this a lot in real life so I was like just really hyped.
No I love it!! Don’t stop
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