Mawu
c. 1600 CE – 2026 CEattested
Dahomey
- Fon
Fon creator associated with the moon and the cool of night, usually paired with Lisa, the sun. The pair are often treated as one two-sided being rather than a couple, which makes the cosmos a single divided body.
Known for
- moon paired with sun
- one being with two faces
- creation as division
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.