NANA BURUKU

Earth mother

Nana Buruku is connected with earth, especially with clay, that is to say with the mixture of earth and water. Clay is the primordial material from which men were created and shaped, but also the material, which is to be returned to earth after a human life has ended.
Through this combination Nana Buruku is associated with the beginning as well as with the end. She is mother and death at he same time in a cycle, in which life is made possible by death. She is the guardian of the gate between life and death and she guards the transition into afterlife. She is the power of nature which man fears most.

Her color is light pink, her stone is tourmaline. Nana Buruku lives in clay, earth, caves and she is the mother of herself.

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