the famous Mami Wata picture is literally a German snake charmer poster. let that sink in

This one will mess with your head if you grew up on Mami Wata stories like me in the Delta. The mermaid water spirit, long hair, mirror and comb, big snake coiled round her — you've seen the image in every shrine and on okada mudguards from Lagos to Lomé. Here's the matrix part. That EXACT image tr……