The goddess of love in this culture lures a man to her mother's party by smearing honey on his lips. In one of this people's myths, a woman gets trick
The goddess of love in this culture lures a man to her mother's party by smearing honey on his lips. In one of this people's myths, a woman gets tricked by her romantic rival into cutting off her ears to add to a soup, leading to a quarrel in which she gets turned into a river. The mythical founder of this people died in a riot that broke out near the pyre of an iconoclast who smashed up several statues with an axe, named Braima. They believed that a despotic king hanged himself after a rebellion, became deified, and then gained the ability to unleash storms on his enemies with his (*) double-headed axe. The son of their creator god climbed down a great chain from heaven and used a five-toed chicken to scatter dirt, creating Earth, and then planted a very large palm tree. Eshu is a psychopomp of this people, who venerate the lightning god Shango and the supreme deity Olodumare. For 10 points, name this African ethnic group whose religion blended with Catholicism, resulting in New World religions like Candomble and Santeria.
The goddess of love in this culture lures a man to her mother's party by smearing honey on his lips.