Ezili Dantor
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The most common depiction of Èzili Dantò (Dantor) is her vèvè sign which is a heart with a dagger going through it. Since the enslaved Africans were forced into Catholicism when they were kidnapped and brought to Haiti to work the plantations, they associated their divine African mother with the Catholic virgin Mary saint in the form of the Black Madonna. In Haitian Vodun, Èzili Dantò represents the warrior mother, the love principle, healer/nurturer and the feminine archetype, not a dead saint but a living energy; that irreducible essence of the African female ancestors who had exhibited a perpetually reoccurring creative, feminine warrior nature.
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| Lwa of Motherhood, irreducible essence of the African warrior mother. | |
| Born | The historical Èzili Dantò for the Haitian Revolution on August 14, 1791 is the Manbo Cecile Fatiman. Africa and Ayiti Haiti |
| Venerated in | Haiti Vodun, Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Vodou, African spirituality, African Culture |
| Attributes | Heart with a dagger going through it. Post colonial, a Black woman holding a child, knife, jewelry, three silver rings, blue, red |
| Patronage | Haiti, love, healing, motherhood, protection from violence, protect the vulnerable, protector of children, calling on Èzili brings wealth, strength, magical power, vengeance, justice, harmony, MAAT, balance. |
Èzili Dantò or Erzulie Dantor (also spelled without the accent, since some sites won't take accents: Ezili with Danto or Danthor phonetically) is the Petro nation aspect of the Erzulie family of loa (lwa), or Vodun archetypes in Haitian Vodou. Èzili Dantò (Ezili Dantor) is considered to be the lwa - irreducible essence, the archetype for love, for motherhood, the warrior mother/goddess, feminine principle, sisterhood, womenhood. Èzili Dantò is identified today in particular by the economic backbones of Haiti, the Madan Sara - the working mothers, women merchants, farmers and traders of Haiti. She is most commonly represented by her vèvè, which is the image of a dagger with a heart going through it and sometimes by image of the Black mother as depicted by the Black Madonna made popular in Europe from copying the African worship of the original mothers on planet earth. Some of these images include , as well as Our Lady of Lourdes, Saint Barbara Africana and Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
The historical Èzili Dantò for the Haitian Revolution on August 14, 1791 is the Manbo Cecile Fatiman. Other examples of Èzili Dantò archetypes during the Haiti Revolution include, the mystic, prophet and warrior mother, Grann Guiton, Sergeant Sanit Belé (Suzanne Bélair) and combatant mothers, Grann Abdaraya Toya (Victoria Montou) and Manman Defile (Marissainte Dédé Brazil). Each are famous mother warriors of Haiti. Defile, for instance, like Grann Toya, led her own regiment, fought in the indigenous army alongside the Haiti men to abolish slavery. Manman Defile, is most famously known as the courageous one who braved a murderous mob at Pon Rouj to gather, like Aset did for Asar, like Isis did Horus the mutilated body of Haiti's founding father, Janjak Desalin Jean-Jacques Dessalines after his assassination by the Mulatto sons of France and gave him a proper burial. Another Èzili Dantò archetype, warrior general Anna Nzinga, the Queen warrior of Angola is immortalized in Haiti as Manbo Inan.
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