Mami Wata
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Meet the badass mermaid ruler of the rivers and coasts of Western Africa: Mami Wata, who knows how to exact revenge and how to enjoy the finer things in life. We talk snakes that can swim, Amanda’s lack of football knowledge, complicated relationships with water and exes, and how Mami Wata is the Fuck Mother we’ve been waiting for.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, episode 31, Mommy Wada. |
| 0:02.9 | It's a good one, y'all. |
| 0:03.6 | Yeah, it is going to be good. |
| 0:04.8 | I feel like I start every episode saying that, but I'm just so proud of us. |
| 0:07.3 | But it's true. |
| 0:08.2 | It's going to be good. |
| 0:09.2 | It's going to be great. |
| 0:10.0 | To begin with, though, Julia, you came in with a book recommendation from me that I think the listeners have to hear about. |
| 0:14.4 | Yes. more frequently where we talk about stuff that we consumed in the past two weeks. |
| 0:22.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.7 | Whether it be books or TV shows or music or podcasts. |
| 0:26.7 | Yeah, I'm into it. |
| 0:27.5 | So I just finished this novella. |
| 0:29.5 | It's by a woman named Nettie or Korophor. |
| 0:31.7 | It's called Binty and it's sort of an Afro-Futurism, space drama kind of thing, and it's fucking beautiful, and the main |
| 0:40.9 | character is amazing, and I tore through it in like two hours, and it was the greatest thing |
| 0:46.2 | ever. |
| 0:47.0 | Amazing. |
| 0:47.6 | And I wanted to recommend this week my favorite murder, which probably all of you have heard of. |
| 0:52.3 | Probably. |
| 0:52.8 | But just in case there's like one or two of you who really likes talking about kind of |
| 0:57.3 | macabre, you know, kind of like nerdy subjects, like two, you know, friends who are |
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