Ezili Dantò is the great mother of the Petwo nation, the dark and passionate counterpart to the Rada Ezili Freda. A hard-working, dark-skinned single mother, she is the fierce protector of women and children and a patroness of those who labor and struggle; her devotion is often linked to the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution, and she is said to have had her tongue cut out in that struggle, so that when she possesses a devotee she can only stammer 'ke-ke-ke.' She bears two parallel scars on her cheek, tokens of a fight, in some tellings with her rival-sister Ezili Freda. Identified with the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, whose icon shows the Virgin with a scarred face and a child in her arms, she is served with the color red, strong drink, and the sacrifice of a black pig. Sources differ on whether she and Ezili Freda are two aspects of one Ezili or wholly distinct spirits.