Mawu

Mawu is worshipped by the Fon and other Gbe peoples of Dahomey. Her name means the Unsurpassable One. Mawu and Lisa are children of the primal creator Nana Buluku.

Mawu shaped humans from clay and asked the serpent Aido Hwedo to coil beneath the earth to hold it up. In the eighteenth century, under King Tegbesu, Dahomey raised the pair to creators of the world.