Iya Moopo,the goddess who is both pot and potter,the patroness of all women's occupations,including a woman's erotic vocation, of conception and child birth.
Rolf Brockmann and Gerd Hotter,Adunni:A Portrait of Susanne Wenger .Trickster Verlag,Munchen,1994.53.
Iya Mopo's technique as a potter woman is to mould form around a pre-existent hole or space,inspiring the question "Which is older,the pot or the hole inside it?"
Adapted from Susanne Wenger and Gert Chesi, A Life with the Gods in their Yoruba Homeleand.Worgl:Perlinger Verlag,1983.140.
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