Sun Lord of Day
Ewe · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Counterpart to Mawu; in some accounts Lisa is Mawu's twin or son rather than husband. Typed deity (solar).
Domains
- sun
- heat and strength
Powers
- governs the daytime sun and its heat
- Wield the strength and heat of day
- Order the created world with Mawu
Relations
- spouse: Supreme Sky MotherReciprocal of ewe_mawu.spouse — Female moon-power and male sun-power paired as the high couple of the Ewe-Fon complex; variants instead make Lisa Mawu's twin or son.M. J. Herskovits, Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom (1938), vol. II (primary)
Sources
- Lisa is the male, solar half of the Ewe-Fon creator pair Mawu-Lisa, associated with the sun, day, heat and strength.: Herskovits, Melville J. Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom. 1938, vol. 2, pp. 101-105. (secondary); "Mawu-Lisa." Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., 2005. (tertiary)