Ezili Freda

Ezili Freda

Also known as Metres Mambo Ezili Freda Daome, Ezili Freda is the lwa that rules over love, luxury, gambling luck, abundance, refinement and much more. She is often associated with coolness, freshness, and cleanliness; very princess like. She is known to have 3 husbands: Ogoun Feray, Danbala, Met Agwe Tawoyo. Because of this, she is often depicted in images to be wearing 3 gold rings on a finger that is not the ring finger. She is believed to be able to ring one the riches of love and luxury items. There are many different types of rituals that one can perform when offering to her but she is often believed to be a "lazy lwa" because of how particular she is about them. People think that she does not answer to their rituals because she is too much a princess and lazy but it is actually believed to be because of how particular she is and wants the offering to be just right because she deserves it that way. One of the songs sang to offer to her is: 

"Ezili fre, li fre, li Freda (x2)

Ezili O! Li pa manje moun anko

Inosan Bondye va gade ou

Ezili Fre, li fre, li yon bel fanm

                                   Ezili Fre, li fre, li yon fanm blanch"

                                          "Ezili she is fresh, she is cool, she is Freda (x2)

                     Ezili O, she doesn't eat people anymore

                   God beholds her as innocent

                                                    Ezili she is fresh, she is cool, she is a beautiful woman

                                                 She is fresh, she is cool, she is a white woman"