Ezili Freda.
She arrives beautiful, is washed and perfumed and dressed in pink, is given cake, champagne and jewellery, flirts with everyone, and then begins to weep because nothing is sufficient and never will be. Every service she attends ends the same way, and it is understood as an accurate account of a certain kind of longing.
Ezili Freda Daomen is the Rada lwa of beauty, luxury, romantic love and refinement. Her service is elaborate: she is washed, perfumed, dressed in pink and pale blue, given cake, champagne, sweet liqueur, jewellery and a comb and mirror, and she flirts with everyone present, distributing attention. She wears three wedding rings, being married to Danbala, Ogou and Agwe. And every appearance ends the same way: she begins to weep, because nothing she is given is sufficient and no love available to her is what she wants, and she is led away crying. Practitioners do not treat this as a defect in her character but as an accurate account of a particular condition — the tradition has a lwa whose defining attribute is that satisfaction is structurally unavailable to her, and it stages that fact publicly several times a year.
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