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These women, honored as "our mothers" (awon iya wa), "my mother" (iya mi), and the elders of the night, are recognized as the owners and controllers of everything on Earth (Drewal and Drewal 7). She's an iya, or priestess, in the Vodun tradition, the African religion that most people know as voodoo. Mukanda and Makishi: Male Initiation and the Context for Masks in Zambia," in Makishi Iya Zambia: Mask Characters of the Upper Zambezi Peoples," by Marc Leo Felix and Manuel Jordan, pp. |
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