Ezili Kokobe

THE THINNEST RECORD IN THIS BATCH AND IT SAYS SO ON ITS FACE. A name and a gloss is what the retrieved treatment gives, and a name and a gloss is what it carries. She is ingested rather than blocked because the Ezili are a named set of six of which the corpus held three, and a set is the one case where the programme has consistently judged that an attested member with a documented name is worth a record - lane 27's four Long-Life Sisters on the same footing. If the owner would rather have five Ezili and a gap than six with two thin ones, the census row is where to say so.

Domains

• the ezili
• destitution

Epithets

• Kokobe

Relations

• of the ezili with: Ezili Freda

Sources

• Reference treatment of the Ezili: the manifestations of the Ezili family of Haitian Vodou include Ezili Dantò, Ezili Freda, Lasirenn, Ezili Je Wouj ('red eyes'), Gran Ezili and Ezili Kokobe ('the shrivelled'); Ezili Freda is a Rada lwa who represents romantic love and erotic sexuality, while Ezili Dantò is Petwo and represents the hardworking and sometimes angry mother, the Mother of Haiti, the warrior who fought for the freedom of her people and of her children, the spirit of the marketplace, of hard work and of motherhood; Gran Ezili is a well-known Rada spirit.