Mama Aisa

Goddess of the earth and head of all winti pantheons.

In Winti, Mama Aisa is the goddess of the earth. She heads the earth pantheon, the gron winti, and is at the same time considered the most important of all winti: the mother of the four pantheons of earth, water, forest and sky. Her name is spoken with great respect.

She is seen as a motherly force that carries, feeds and cleanses. In the tradition the earth is the ground on which everything rests: the yard, the field, the grave of the ancestors. Mama Aisa is therefore connected with fertility, harvest, care for the family and with justice and order. According to the stories, whoever does not respect the earth and the ancestors does not respect her either. Her husband is Loko, who lives in a loko tree.

In celebrations she is often associated with white, the colour of purity and of the ancestors. At a wintiprei she is usually invoked first, and her name is also mentioned at remembrances and special moments in a family's life.

Where she is recognised in a dream, according to practitioners it is often about ground under your feet: safety, origin or the feeling of being allowed to be somewhere. Images of fertile soil, a yard, a house from the past, an older woman in white or someone holding you are sometimes read in this light. A dream in which the ground is dry, cracked or unclean can instead be read as something in the family or in life that needs care.

Dreamkin does not establish that a dream comes from Mama Aisa. We describe how practitioners often read such dreams; the meaning differs by family and by bere.