Nana Buruku

Ancient primordial grandmother-deity of swamps and creation, shared with the Fon.

Children

• Babalu-Aye

Domains

• primordial creation
• swamps mud

Powers

• Originates the structure of the universe
• Governs birth, death, and renewal

Epithets

• Nàná Bùrùkú yoruba · Nana Buruku'Grandmother / venerable ancient one' (Nana, an honorific for an aged ancestor) — the primordial mother of the orishaVerger, Pierre. Notes sur le culte des Orisa et Vodun, IFAN, 1957 (secondary scholarship); Bascom, William. Sixteen Cowries, Indiana Univ. Press, 1980 (secondary scholarship)
• Nana Buruku Yoruba (and Fon) · Nana Buruku · honorificGrandmother / primordial ancestressVerger, Orixas (secondary)

Relations

• equated with: Primordial Grandmother of the GodsThe same West African deity under its Gbe/Yoruba reflex (Nana Buluku).West African vodun/òrìṣà cognates: the same deity across the Gbe (Ewe, Fon) and Yoruba traditions (M. Herskovits, Dahomey, 1938; G. Parrinder, West African Religion, 1961; P. Verger, Notes sur le culte des Orisa et Vodun, 1957) (secondary)
• equated with: Nana BulukuThe same West African deity under its Gbe/Yoruba reflex (Nana Buluku).West African vodun/òrìṣà cognates: the same deity across the Gbe (Ewe, Fon) and Yoruba traditions (M. Herskovits, Dahomey, 1938; G. Parrinder, West African Religion, 1961; P. Verger, Notes sur le culte des Orisa et Vodun, 1957) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Wikipedia, Nana Buluku (secondary)