Be sure to look up the gods Agwe and Erzulie on Wikipedia because both of these are also names of gods in Haitian Voodoo religion.
Interestingly, we talked about the different sides of Erzulie in class today, and she has many facets -- she can be associated with a mother figure as well as a siren/temptress figure like Mami Wata from African religions.
These connections are important to explore as much as we have explored their potential counterpoints from Greek and Roman mythology.
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