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Mawu Names Her Chief Assistant Mawu, the dreaming Dahomean goddess, escorted little Legba, her sly son, through the yam garden. “I will bless the new moons in your eyes with mystic vision,” she said, “your hands with power. Human beings will honor the dog, your totem beast; worship in white, your ritual color; and serve you oil and cornmeal cakes, your sacred feast. “I will teach you the magic alphabet, my deepest secret, and every evening write beautiful poems about our planet— mail to the dwellers of earth, to activate their days and destinies.” She smiled. “I am naming you the cosmic carrier, next to me the mightiest god of Voudou.” Sniggering, Legba thought, Me tamper with the text. 15 ...

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