Who is Mami Wata - A short, simple, wholistic take.

Mami Wata is best explained simply as an Afrikan Spirit. Though she can also be described as all living things, in all things, the medium between all things, the passage to and from things... let me say this. She is the Universal Solvent. Each person who has a Mami Wata spirit will come to know her uniquely. There is a universal Mami Wata just as there are personal Mami Watas who come through a specific lineage. Having Mami Wata as my Head and being her Priestess shows me the world through her lense- how I've come to understand myself, my path, the greater picture of all life, death and beyond is all a tribute to what Mami Wata is.

Mami Wata is honored and revered as the spirit who assisted our ancestors amidst the transatlantic slave trade and carried our spirits, memories, and traditions for us.

Mami Wata is also the whole of the marine king/queendom, from the whales to the algae to the barnacles growing on sea turtles... she is the waves, the sand, and the moon! She rules over and governs marine oriented things like docks, ports/transportation, ships/shipments, tails/tales and other properties like cleanliness, timing and the great unknown.

Mami Wata is purity, refinement, motion, stillness, depth, surface, chaos, order, timing, pace, rhythm, dance, song, story, life, death, love, abundance, fertility, womb, newborn, mother, father, creativity, completion.

Really, there are infinite ways I can paint her picture in your head... but above all, Mami Wata is a motion, a movement. Mami Wata Sanctuary is a tribute to her multifaceted omnipresence. Dive in!