Gorgeous Erzulie Freda Statue image Ezili Fweda Lwa Figure Lwa loa Mater Dolorosa 18" high x 10" wide

This is a huge and beautiful statue of Manbo Erzulie Freda Dahomey in her avatar as Mater Dolorosa. It has a removable jeweled dagger and there are multiple green gemstones. This is a rare piece of exceptional quality and size. She would take pride of place on any Vodou shrine or altar and has real presence. This saint lwa figure would look amazing adorned with more necklaces and mouchwa! Wonderful colors. Get it while you can.

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Beautiful, charming, radiant, loving, luxurious, splendorous, effulgent, charismatic, glorious. All of these adjectives apply to Metres Freda, one of the most beloved of the lwa in Haitian Vodou. Yet, as fittingly magnificent as these words are, they simply aren’t good enough for this Queen without being shaped into the superlative–most beautiful, most charming, and so on. Oh, I’m sorry…that should be Metres Mambo Ezili Freda Dahomey. She is a queen among lwa and humans and you’d better remember it, cheri. Everything in Vodou contains levels of meaning and interpretation, and Freda is no different. In peering through these layers we learn a great deal about her and the natural forces she represents. On the Surface On the surface, in a rather exoteric understanding, Freda is portrayed as a beautiful woman, generally white (remembering that this is a complex term in Haitian history, not necessarily equivalent to ‘European’) or biracial (one song runs Ezili fre li fre li bel fanm Ezili fre li fre li fanm blan…), and typifies the experience of such a woman in colonial Haiti. Indeed, she is said to have three husbands in many houses–Dambala, Agwe, and Ogou, although some versions of her have a single husband and have apparently settled down. When she comes in possession, this coquettish nature can be quite evident–she is flirtatious with the men, but distant with the women, who are her rivals; she expects absolute cleanliness; and to be treated like a queen. No smoke or crass alcohol for her, and certainly nothing else with a scent that offends her delicate nostrils! She is the queen of the economics of human pair bonding and the lover of luxury and the life of the idle rich, including at times the worry-free wastefulness this can include. The boundless love and compassion that Freda represents is not manifested simply in human love, or divine compassion. What is love, in the end, but attraction that binds us together? Whether romantic attraction between lovers, the bonds of affection between mother and child, the draw of fans to the mystique of celebrity, it’s all attraction at its heart. Freda is pure and therefore so is her energy–it takes very little to dirty clean water, and effort to repair it. Think of an elegant and refined queen, sure of herself and confident. Ayibobo, Metres Freda, nou renmen ou anpil, larenn nan kè nou!

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