Ayeda Wedo and the World Egg Ayeda Wedo and the World Egg
Ayeda Wedo and the World Egg
About Ayeda Wedo
Ayida Wedo is a
loa of fertility,
rainbows and
snakes, and a companion or wife to
Damballa. She represents the sky powers and the
rainbow is her symbol. She functions as protector of the cosmos and giver of
blessings.
Long ago, the serpent spirit Dambala created the world. He used his 7,000
coils to form the stars and the planets in the heavens and to shape the hills
and valleys on earth. He used lightning bolts to forge metals and make the
sacred rocks and stones. When he shed his skin he created all the waters on the
earth. And when the sun showed through mist settling on the plants and trees a
rainbow was born. Her name was Ayida Wedo. Dambala loved her and made her his
wife. They are still together today, the serpent and the rainbow. Dambala and
Ayida Wedo.
The
Rig-Veda says that the
incomprehensible
divine germ of our
universe, " 'the one Lord of all
beings . . . the one animating principle of
gods and man,' arose, in the
beginning, in the Golden
Womb,
Hiranyagarbha -- which is the
Mundane Egg or sphere of our
Universe"
One egg's lower half transformed
And became the earth below,
And its upper half transmuted
And became the sky above;
From the yolk the sun was made,
Light of day to shine upon us;
From the white the moon was formed,
Light of night to gleam above us;
All the colored brighter bits
Rose to be the stars of heaven
And the darker crumbs changed into
Clouds and cloudlets in the sky.
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