This design is available on prints through Society 6 and greeting cards through Zazzle. Offerings to Aida-Wedo include white foods such as milk, rice, and eggs.Īlternate names: Ayida Wedo, Dan Ayido Hwedo Damballah and Ayida were often depicted together as two twisting serpents on items like drums and. Acquired from the above by the present owner. Gerhard and Ute Stebich, New York (1978). Her message is one of healing and strength for the whole of the world. Alternative names: Ayida-Wedo, 3 Aida Wedo 4. Damballah La Flambeau (also known as Aida-Qudo and The Snake Goddess Ayida-Wedo) signed ‘H.H.’ (lower right) oil on board laid on board 30 x 24 in. Integrity, whether physical (structural), or moral, is the natural result of integration-weaving together elements that are very different. She represents continuity and strength, integration and wholeness, as the rainbow contains all the colors, split from white light.
In the 16th century, he followed his enslaved mortal worshipers across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean islands, particularly Haiti, and to the USA's southern rim.
In the Vodou tradition, Aida-Wedo (and Her husband Damballah) belong to the Rada Lwa, or spirits who come out of the rites of the old kingdom of Dahomey (present Nigeria, Benin and Togo), generally considered to be benevolent and sweet (dous). Dam-Ayido Wede was initially a relatively minor Vodu god (worshiped as nature-gods by the Fon and Yoruba in Africa). The rainbow serpent is the symbol of integration in many parts of the world, including Africa, Australia and America, and represents that which links heaven and earth, and encircles the world to unite her disparate elements. They are the fertile forces that combine to form all things in our universe.
Hoodoo psychic readers, spirit workers, and root doctors who petition the lwa on behalf of clients may work with Ayida Wedo for fertility and serenity and blessing.Aida-Wedo is the Lwa (spirit or Goddess) of water, snakes and the rainbow, represented by the rainbow python, a snake whose scales are iridescent. Damballah & Ayida Wedo are the basic principles of creation, male and female. In Catholic syncretic Voodoo practices, Ayida Wedo is associated with Saint Patrick through her husband Damballa. Ayida Wedo is petitioned for rain, serenity, healing, and blessing. Her offerings are white, candles, eggs, flour, and white chickens. She is also given a tub of water when she arrives in Voodoo ceremonies. Kouzen Zaka, represented by this vèvè, is the guardian of the fields in Haitian Vodou. Some Voodoo traditions hold that Ayida Wedo and Damballa do not like associated with the Ghede who enjoy smoking and partying. Ayiti Ayizan 11.3K subscribers Subscribe 147K views 3 years ago vodou. She is peaceful, serene, and likes the environment to reflect that. 0:00 / 22:43 Loa Damballah Et Ayida Wedo possesion / seremoni lakay wa/ roi vodou Ayiti a St Clou. When Ayida Wedo arrives in a Voodoo ceremony and she mounts, she does not speak, but only hisses. Damballah-Wedo is strongly associated with the ancestors, and he and his companion Ayida-Wedo are the oldest and wisest of the loa. As a source of life, he is also strongly associated with water and the rain. She is the female counterpart of the male rainbow serpent and together they rule the skies. Damballah-Wedo is associated with creation and is viewed as a loving father to the world. Like her consort, Damballa, Ayida Wedo is a great cosmic lwa that coils around all the world and is the one that makes creation possible. She is is the lwa of fertility, rainbows, and snakes. Like him, she is a serpent lwa associated with the sky and heavens.Īyida Wedo is a rainbow serpent lwa and is part of the Rada nation. He was the first to exist after God, and it is from him that all life originally comes, and so in essence, Danballa is also the Father of all mankind. He will eat the egg using only his mouth. Then he will be given his food, the white egg and the flour.
The most pure of all the lwa, Danballa is the Sky Father, and Father to all the lwa. Danbala and his wife, Ayida Wedo, are often provided with a tub of water. Ayida Wedo is the wife and consort of Damballa. Danballa Wedo is a very important lwa in the reglemen of Haitian Vodou, and in Hounfo Racine Deesse Dereyale.
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