Fawafa, or Fawaafa, is the serpent divinity of the Batammariba of Togo and Benin. All Batammariba groups affirm a common origin as 'children of the Serpent': the great female snake, invisible and living underground, is said to have incubated at Dinaba the eggs from which the first ancestors came forth. Dominique Sewane glosses the name as 'the clan's titular serpent', and each clan maintains its bond with its serpent. In Suzanne Preston Blier's account of Batammaliba religion, Fawafa is likewise the python deity associated with men's initiation, and serpent deities exist in male and female forms; the primordial ancestral Fawaafa of the origin narrative is female. The serpent cult is closely tied to the earth goddess Butan and stands under the supreme solar creator Kuiye.