{"id":4145,"date":"2020-08-18T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=4145"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:07:19","slug":"dieux-de-1ere-generation-fon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/gods-of-1st-generation-fon\/","title":{"rendered":"1st generation gods Fon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4145\" class=\"elementor elementor-4145\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b12ba4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3b12ba4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column 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class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-372ac1a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"372ac1a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d35f96a\" data-id=\"d35f96a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-650bf97 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"650bf97\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This page describes the 1st generation Fon gods: S\u00ca, AYIDOHW\u00caDO, L\u00caGBA, F\u00c2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"1st generation Fon gods: S\u00ca, AYIDOHW\u00caDO, L\u00caGBA, F\u00c2\" width=\"25\" height=\"26\" title=\"\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6bae2f4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6bae2f4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/gods-of-1st-generation-fon\/#Dieux-de-1ere-generation-Fon\" >1st generation gods Fon<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/gods-of-1st-generation-fon\/#SE-Feu\" >S\u00ca (Fire)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/gods-of-1st-generation-fon\/#AYIDOHWEDO-FeuAir\" >AYIDOHW\u00caDO (Fire \/ Air)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/gods-of-1st-generation-fon\/#LEGBA-FeuAir\" >L\u00caGBA (Fire \/ Air)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/gods-of-1st-generation-fon\/#FA-FeuEau\" >F\u00c2 (Fire \/ Water)\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dieux-de-1ere-generation-Fon\"><\/span>1st generation gods Fon<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7fbf655f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7fbf655f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-37860d1c\" data-id=\"37860d1c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54e7269a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"54e7269a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"SE-Feu\"><\/span>S\u00ca (Fire)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He is the primordial and creative god who generated himself. He personifies the creative fire, the original light. Its name means: incandescent, intelligent, destiny, providence. The etymology of the name of this god evokes the scientific cosmology of the big bang. THE <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">myth<\/a> fon of creation teaches that Dan Ayidohw\u00eado, the double of S\u00ea, created the earth by drying up the primordial waters.<\/p>\n<p>In the Fon language, the word esprit is also referred to as &quot;s\u00ea&quot;. We can then imagine that each man consists of an image or projection of the primordial s\u00ea, hence the designation gb\u00e9 = father, author and to = world. In this sense, S\u00ea represents the Whole, since each part of creation conceals a s\u00ea, which consists of its incarnation, but also Nothingness, because the spirit is impregnable, elusive, infinite.<\/p>\n<p>Se manifests himself in all his power in L\u00eagba. The God se generated within himself the Gods Lisa and Maou and through this couple, he created everything. It has no physical representation. The mind has no color or form. S\u00ea designates the fon form of the Egyptian solar demiurge R\u00ea.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"AYIDOHWEDO-FeuAir\"><\/span>AYIDOHW\u00caDO (Fire \/ Air)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As in L\u00eagba, he is attributed the function of mediator between heaven and earth, therefore between gods and men. He leads souls from heaven to earth. Its name means etymologically: &quot;do&quot; (which possesses) &quot;ayi&quot; (earth) &quot;hw\u00ea&quot; (line, line, colors), it is therefore represented by the rainbow and is a source of wealth and fertility.<\/p>\n<p>It is also said that he is the god distributor of gold, mines and that his excrement, &quot;danmi&quot; (kinds of blue pearls) have a gold value. According to the Fon creation myth, originally the waters covered all space, no earth existed. Maou, the creator, asked Ayidohw\u00eado, to dry up the waters, to give them a territory, \u201chou\u201d the sea, to make the earth emerge. <\/p>\n<p>Having accomplished the creative act, denoted in fon by the concept \u201c\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/\">voodoo<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb, Ayidohw\u00eado ascended to heaven. There he became Hw\u00e9dohwan or L\u00eagba (Sun at noon) and received as a reward, Maou&#039;s first daughter, Soun (Moon).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This myth defines a parallel with the Egyptian myth of creation. Like Atum, Ayidohw\u00eado is a serpent, Dan. Its representation by a double interlaced serpent, male and female, represents the two forces of creation, the plus and the minus, the masculine and the feminine, the sky and the earth, hence its role of mediator announced above. It also represents the original air, that is to say, life. Its color is blue, the color of the sky, and its number is 7.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"LEGBA-FeuAir\"><\/span>L\u00caGBA (Fire \/ Air)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>L\u00eagba designates the manifest or accessible form of the purely abstract concept that is S\u00ea. L\u00eagba represents in fon as in ancient Egyptian, the heart, the beat, the spirit. He personifies the midday sun. As a principle of life, it governs order in creation, legality, unalterable law. The God L\u00eagba appears as a civilizing god who transmitted the law, knowledge and ingenuity to humanity.<\/p>\n<p>He is the sovereign of the gods, the greatest: \u201choun-daho\u201d in fon. Which means &quot;houn&quot; mystery, &quot;daho&quot; great. L\u00eagba embodies the creative power of R\u00ea, which is said in fon S\u00ea. All prayers, all requests are addressed to him and the ultimate decision belongs to him. He is the cosmic, universal judge in the voodoo tradition, and rewards each according to his deeds and merits. It represents the strict neutrality of the law, the perfect and ideal balance in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The fear he arouses results from the fact that he embodies the rigor of the law.The individual worship that each person can render allows him to appropriate the creative power, the life that he represents, which is translated by the expression \u201cL\u00eagba symbolizes the anger of every man.<\/p>\n<p>And everyone tries to appease him \u201d. Anger, fury designate the primitive forces of creation, generators of all being, the fundamental impulse which nourishes and maintains creation. Legba&#039;s anger calls every man to the conversion of strength, to the nobility of the soul, from defects to qualities. L\u00eagba offers everyone to become an \u201cindividual\u201d sun, such is the meaning of his worship. <\/p>\n<p>According to tradition, the God L\u00eagba appeared several times on earth, as a celestial man, who has neither beginning nor end of life. Like F\u00e2, he is the god of oracles. The color of L\u00eagba is red and his numbers are: 7, 21 and 41.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"FA-FeuEau\"><\/span>F\u00c2 (Fire \/ Water)\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The God F\u00e2-D\u00e9 or F\u00e2 represents the birth-death-resurrection cycle. He is symbolized by the palm nut or the F\u00e2-D\u00e9 palm. This palm tree with sixteen branches stands straight up in the morning, bows at noon and touches the ground with its palms in the evening. The next day, he gets up again, and this movement continues endlessly. There <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">legend<\/a> says that F\u00e2 was a man loved by all, because everyone could approach him and question him. His predictions always came true. H\u00eavioso, his brother, the powerful god Thunder, took umbrage, then decided to kill F\u00e2.<\/p>\n<p>Using a knife, he cut F\u00e2 in half. But F\u00e2 being immortal, he was incarnated in the F\u00e2-D\u00e9 palm tree and his servants were metamorphosed into the \u201cavinyi\u201d tree from which the seeds are taken from the divinatory rosaries or \u201cagounmaga\u201d. By his identification with F\u00e2, in particular with his mysteries, to his ideal of civilization, the initiate finds immortality, eternal life represented by the palm tree or tree of life. <\/p>\n<p>F\u00e2 constitutes, in view of the foregoing, and according to tradition, the god of salvation.The worship of F\u00e2 gave birth to the system of divination called F\u00e2, comprising 16 fundamental Formulas or Dou, the bipolar combination of which gives 256 Formulas making it possible to account for matter, the universe, life, consciousness, evolution, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The sixteen Dou or Gods constitute the sixteen faces or essential aspects of the creator, of creation. They are sixteen names or sacred sounds each expressing an idea of creation, a divine idea and in 16 x 16 = 256 names of manifestation. The first Dou, &quot;Gb\u00e9&quot;, corresponds to the creative principle, the last, &quot;Crazy&quot;, corresponds to the design principle, usually designated by the Father and the Mother of the Son-Gods who are then 14 in number.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythologie Dahom\u00e9enne-Fon Wiki Cette page d\u00e9crit les dieux de 1ere g\u00e9n\u00e9ration Fon : S\u00ca, AYIDOHW\u00caDO, L\u00caGBA, F\u00c2 Dieux de 1ere &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4116,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24945,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4145\/revisions\/24945"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}