Mami Wata: The Enchanting Water Spirit of West Africa"Mami wata
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- In this video, we explore the fascinating African water deity, Mami Wata. From her mermaid-like appearance to her associations with wealth and sexuality, we delve into the enchanting world of Mami Wata and discover the spiritual significance and symbolism of this beloved African goddess. Join us on a journey to uncover the mysteries and beauty of Mami Wata, and the role she plays in African culture and mythology.
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I have no doubt about this there is a lot we don't know about our world.
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If you look around would know really. Evern little things
Thank you, the world needs to hear this history including the Mermaid tales of the Caribbean. Mermaids were black first.
Yep. In Jamaica, she is Riva Mumma (Mother of the river)
How do you know that mermaids were black first? Let be say. All life started in waters. Look between your fingers and tooth we have the same fleece like ducks. Our water ancestors where calling the ogdoad, they where 12, male and female. Know that other beings allso came from other planets and landed in water. Check the story of the dogon and their god, the nomos.find for yourself who this beings are.
@@Queenmomefuastop all this cheap lies
@@Queenmomefua Mermaids were black first because ALL was black first. Simple mathematics.
@@Queenmomefua All life is water. We live in water - only less dense than sea or river, so we need no gills. There are STILL BLACK 'sea people', who have mermaid qualities. Meaning that oxygen is diverted from their lungs directly to their blood streams so they can stay under water even as long as five minutes.
You know about the sea or water people in Africa - right? Where are the white sea people? Just like you do not have white ANCIENT HUMAN RELICS, you don't have white mermaid relics. AND WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT CAUCASIANS EITHER.
Caucasians were a race of Black Priest and their civilizations that lived in the Caucasus before white frenemies came, learned their sciences, destroyed them and claimed to be Caucasians, just as many now claim to be South Africans and Egyptians.
So stop talking about the 'WHAT ABOUT WHITE' every time someone talks the truth about black. If you can tell me ONE THING that white people say they are that they truly are (except white) I will eat this computer. If you want to know about the origins of white people - when or how, you can simply ask...
I wish there was a movie of her. This sounds so amazing
Watch the movie Splash
When I was younger in Liberia. I almost got abducted by mami wata. Beautiful girl came out of the deep end of the sea. Large afro, dark hair. She held my hand and started to pull into the sea. Saying, oh, come on, while smiling. Knowing I wasn't a good swimmer, I screamed for help. 4 of my friends came and started pulling my left arm while she was pulling my right arm. She finally let go and disappear under water. To this day, I feel like she's waiting for me. I'm scared shitless to go near the ocean. I've never swim by the ocean ever since. I now live in the Midwest of the US where I won't be tempted to go near the ocean.
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You should pray about it.
Yes I believe you , the ones I saw were extremely light skin and beauty the likes u have never seen before ,
I will not say that this did not happen to you, because here in the U.S on a cable channel people testify to big foot encounters, mothman encounters, and several other types of encounters, all that I know is that as humans we don't know it all or what else lurks among us😮.
Somethings tells me that some of those testimonies that I have heard are truths being told.
This story is so beautiful and sad at the same time. ❤❤🥺
Im from South Africa and I believe this story is a plot . Those Water Spirits are not so easy to just take you to their sacred palace and bring you back to tell about it , most cases only the initiated ones make it back with a cow or sheep or more for sacrifices and rituals have to be met precisely on most cases , otherwise most people get swept away and never return to the face of the earth or found floating with their brains sucked out from the nostrils.
There are more than just Mama wati , Oya , Yemoja , Olokum Oshun it just depends on which location you at then you’ll find a different water spirit with different attributes that will define how you connect with it , some even have time slots on when to play around the water and when not to or you’ll be swept away . Most communicate through traditional healers and thats where the village get their instructions on how to engage with the spirit
But this story sound way too uncomplicated for interacting with the spirit like it’s just your normal friend, even people with spiritual gifts and who are able to go in and out without any harm are never open about whats going on under water . And they respect and obey the spirit like it’s God , you never speak about it directly but create metaphorical fairy tale stories just to try and give you the idea .
They have "whitewashed" who this goddess really is and know NOTHING about Igbo spirituality or the spirituality of many African tribal groups. This is for clicks.
Shes also called Nwa Mmiri
With every African coastal legend, it a slightly different story with the tribes!
Who came up with this story? 😅 I'm from Nigeria and everything in this video is pure 🧢. Mami water is a river goddess/marine spirit and she's not associated with benevolence. Rather she's a malicious entity that is evoked for quick riches at a high cost to the seeker. She's also sought after for vengeance and other wicked reasons. She's not the harmless, kind creature that this video poster is trying to portray. Give your life to Jesus. He is the ONLY WAY to true peace and prosperity. Selah
She's harmful dangerous yet she's kind and pitiful and also emphatic.
Nature gives good and bad things not just water alone. Leave my Mami water alone ooo because fear won't allow you know something better.
@@kbeauty88what do you know about her are you from the water world.
@@ARC.benedict_samsonyou don't need to be from the water world to know that the female water gods have different attributes in different countries and their tries. To some they protect to others they destroy. You cannot use the definition from your culture to define one from another culture
Because the white man told you that our religion is evil she’s not evil only if you do evil you get punished
@@vashninjaka2587 hmmm you are right where am from she is a caring and kind mother especially to those that are from her world and worshippers too. Slow to anger but when provoked it going to be nasty this happens mostly if anyone hurt her daughters on earth
Well, she is part of the Great Legacy of Auset, Yemoja, & Others known to African Cultural and Spiritual History and Spirituality.
This is so true some people saw it in Nigeria and some other parts of subsahara African nations can testify to this . Even Jamaican believe this 🔥💯🇳🇬🇳🇬
My grandma and mom speak of mermaids
Real but we Jamaicans call her riva mumma
@@Tialaniee yes same creature different names I guessed 😂 👍
Exactly 😂
Adore the artwork! Mystical Woman/Being… 🪼🐠🐟🐋
Mami Wata was never human😂
Very beautiful African Authentic Story!!! Thank you
Thanks for this, some time world is good
Thank you for sharing❤
Olokun (meaning the owner of the ocean) and Yemaja is mami water the wife of Olokun.
Mami is a short form for mummy and you know what water means, she's a very powerful deity where I'm from in Nigeria, my mum once yold me she saw one one while she was a little girl in the village, she and her sisters went to fetch water from the stream very early in the morning and they saw a very beautiful mummy water bathing, Immediately she saw them, the beautiful sea lady dived back into the water and they saw her fish tail... Till now i wish i would see one mummy water one day but i know its very rare even though i know I'm a son of the water lol... Yea in Igbo tribe some people are considered to be "Nwa Mmri" which means child of the water, some has more connection to the water than others.... Well there are lots of real stories about these "mami water" ❤
Mami is not even right it’s maame and it means woman
papi,mami etc it means woman or mother of water, stop trying to personalize it. You think the deity is of Ghana origin?
So she came out of the water to bath with the water she came out from? Make that make sense please.
@@elormettuh2665 it doesn't matter how you pronounce or spell it... How ever you spell mummy in your language is fine, just don't personalize it lol😂
@@jensensolace4948 yea... it's said they do come out only very early in the morning to play and bath at the river bank... Well I don't know where you are from but from here it's a very common thing, in our calendar today is an eke day and on eke days you can have or feel more connected to them and if I'm to go pray give offerings at the river it would be today or I wait till the next eke day or afor day... Don't let me start teaching you igbo culture here lol 😂😂
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In my country Liberia 🇱🇷 , the folklore explain that they are harmful creatures that doesn't like people. There are stories that if a person can't get married or bear children, there's a mami wata( mermaid) or underwater man involves. But sometimes people used to pray to these spirits for children. But even if they were granted children by those merfolks, it would come with a heavy price to pay by either the children or the parents. In my native Bassa ( one of the ethnic groups of Liberia) dialect we refer to them as "Nee gie" . Nee means water and gie refers to a genie or spirit.
Wonderful story
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Kofi is name given to boys born on Fridays in Ghana our native language called twi and also mami water means mermaid my dad had an encounter with one we used to stay closer near a river or let me say a dam not far from our house it lured kids with balls n dolls buh my dad saw her ones he was sleeping outside in the night which she came to pass infront of our house which has no main gate buh exposed to the street the following morning he told my mum
Told your mum what??
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Google Yemonja..a deity of west African origin, worshipped in Brazil and Yorubaland. Also a water based goddess.
Yemoja is one of Her many names and the protoype. Oshun corresponds better.
Oshun. Santa Maria della Mare. Aphrodite Pandemos. Bilquis the Elder (not to confuse with Her namdsake half-human daughter or niece and part-human granddaughter/grandniece) . Asthar of the Aksumites. Astarte. Sekhmet-Bast (the pacified form of Sekhmet) or Isis-Bast (not to confuse with Horus's mother) . Memphis the Nymph in Greek mythology. Mami Wata. Mamba Muntu. La Sirene. Mbaba Mwana Waresa's avatar or Nomkhubulwane. Mwana S'imbi, Lady of the Bisimbis and one of Nzambici's avatars. One of Sarasvati/Sararwati's mamy ocean-bound and river-bound frontier avatars. Grendel's mother in the Beowulf Saga of the Danes. Huixtocihuatl or Santa Maria della Mare again in Mexico.
Many names throughout all of human history.
@@ptolemeeselenion1542I'm grateful others know the truth. Don't forget she's also the reason why the "little Mermaid" was brown this time around 💙
@@jordanwilliams9984 That has nothing to do with that Swedish novel. I couldn't care less about these Disney movies. I'm talking about a fact I've seen with my own eyes and lived, with many eyewitnesses to corroborate the event. Not some Hollywood money-grab fiction based upon some Scandinavian book.
@@ptolemeeselenion1542 lol I'm sorry, I was agreeing with you, smh. I noticed your references and decided to share another, to build, as I have also had experiences with Yemanja. Didn't think the little mermaid was much of a difference from your European references; Aphrodite, the Merewif in Beowulf, & the search engine most depend on for "guidance"/ "knowledge". As children of the Orisha's we should know that Yemanja and Oshun are not the same being. We should also know that all of our legends are stolen and white washed, the little mermaid being one of many. When in the presence of a "fellow" divine child we support one another, as our divine mother's would have us do. Support, share experiences, exchange knowledge and spread love unless forced to defend. But, be well love💙🙏
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This is a really cool video! In my culture mami wata just means a merperson, but I guess we got the name from somewhere! And near my family's home there's also a recent tale about a boy who was warned not to get close to the river because there was a mermaid living there,. He didn't listen and the mermaid dragged him down and killed him. On the bright side, mermen in my culture can choose a female human partner and they become the village's healer! And no one thinks that person is cursed, they actually think that person is blessed and to this day they go to them to get healed.
I will like to know what country is that.
Based off what I learned, its a demon who likes to lure men in to kill them and keep them. If the healing isn't coming from JESUS CHRIST, its a demon.
It came from European traditions, mostly. Mami wata is just pigeon English for water mother. Even the "traditional" image of mami wata is of a dark skinned women with long flowing dark hair, not with a fish tail, but with a snake drapped around her. Even this image is of a European origin.
Thank You so much for this video. I needed this video. I truly appreciate it and your voice is soothing ❤❤❤
I would have love to see this as a Disney movie instead of the little mermaid remake
No. We do NOT need Disney to make this story come to life. We need African / Black producers, directors, & actors to tell this story. Don't let Disney tell our story. They have their own.
I would too
@@ecllipsedeloach65 Obviously. But the Tyler perrys (black film makers) choose to keep making stereotypical drama flicks instead and Disney keep choosing make animated movies this is in there wheel house unless you can director, produce and write? Cause black film makers ain’t doing it, they could have been done it. Instead we got bay bay chaps
@@ecllipsedeloach65 Thank You! If Disney gets a hold of this, They will take the rights & we won't be able to tell this story without Disney suing us.
Bro let us breath and don’t bring up stupid Ariel kids movie in everything
Sweet mermaid photos
shes so beautiful
Yes it's true and as Nigerian I have come across it once when I was little and in my community river they where once there but no more...The one I had an encounter with was very short no more than 2ft full of her many years ago but I still remember that day and I felt some gussboms all over even as am writing
But it's REAL
I believe, Ashe
A beautiful story. Kofi got really lucky, as the Mami Wata are not benevolent, especially when you disobey them.
Hamba Khatha Dlamini. Nyalo.🙏🏽🤞🏿
IDemili and osun are two goddess of the ocean and sea in Nigerian. Osun being the goddess in the west and Idemili, the east and south
Olokun the goddess of the sea from Edo state the south south . History has it that , the River in Urhonigbe is where mami water first enchanted the water the river is called Ezenughegbe
She's so pretty
_...the arrwork is stunningly beautiful..._ ❤...
Wow. She gave him gifts and being likeable to others was more important than her genuine, unconditional friendship she offered him and the lovely gift she made him to ensure he'd thrive?! He threw those 2 beautiful things away for something you don't need to live good, it's just a little nice if you happen to have it? Seems ungrateful. But it speaks to her level of actual, strong care for him, for her to be like "it hurts, and I don't wanna do this. But if it will truly make you happy, I'll do it"? That's a type of love right there. I hope someone out there is showing her the love she's shown others and that she can see clearly its not always gonna be bad to show love to someone or something again. And I hope Mami Wata can at long last be on the recieving end of some much deserved appreciation🥺💝
I guess The Little Mermaid has something to do with the African Origin. Probably, that's why a black actress was chosen.
What is her symbol aw? I like this. I like your way story telling, soft voice. Good lesson though.
I will agree with you Mami wata we call her Teek in Nuelanguagees one tribe among 64 tribes of South Sudan. Mami Wata (Teek) use to protect our entire families when it come got trouble in the River Nile my father fight with a crocodile up to death at the end he was rescued and healthy and Aunty go to the river and don't know how to swim when she was a little girl she took four days in the river at last she was found half died. Teek did a lot, Mericle to our families until now day. If one goes fishing in the river he/she can mention any type of fish mami wata (teek) and grant it immediately.
I LOVE YOUR STORY!!!
For God so loved the world that he sent his only son Jesus Christ to die for our sins. Please believe in Jesus Christ and not water spirits
Jesus? Cesera Borgia died for your sin?
@@Ubothered LolololoL!!
Go with the creator NOT the createe.
Please take your mental colonisation out of the comments. Your Jesus is an adaptation of a solar deity. You believe in a solar deity that was given to your through colonialism but we should not believe in our own water spirits? God forbid.
👍🏽 if u ever do Egypt I’d be glad to help
Great story! Great lessons! Thank you.
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The stories are true about the watchers mating with the daughters of men. These women were curse to become mermaids.
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Water spirit are the best
The artwork is fantastic. Can you give the name of the artist?
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Something is terribly wrong with this story. I'm a West African, and I've never heard that story told like that 😒
It a Ghanaian myth dat why
he story is Tampered with my friend making it look good . that thing would have takin the boy or for a sacrifice but I would not know. to would assum there still there my parent had told n I believe 100% at the Time there was a war n my parent had seen the assuming the creator had must’ve been protected.I say cuz was like in middle of water trying to get to the other side
you don’t want to follow anything out of ordinary id say it makes if magic is real n god would send life under the button of the sea with pressure.I don’t know what too call it rather then magic but this wrld is very real voodoo n all that I’m just thankful to be human an to be real as well ,I nobody special didn’t want to get too personal on here
Yo glad I see a west African in the comment too?!💕🦵take it eazy
Can you conpare the itel p40 plus with the otel s23? Which has a bettee camera? How can a 50mp camera produce such loor images?
They are in Ghana too
l had an experience with Mami wata once she tried to convince me to follow her but I refused then my mum called me by the time l look back she disappeared for a while l kept having dream where l would be sitting down by her side with some other people l had to tell my mum about it l had to undergo serious prayers after that she isn't a nice spirit as you might think
I would assume at least I can tell this story is tampered with
@@ramen6175really tampered 😂😂😂swears
Ondo is in Nigeria, Nigeria don't use the naming conventions Akans in West Africa use. Kofi in Ondo...uh yeah, nuh so!
Just a story
This story was told by fore great father
Mami water wasnt blessed by the gods. Shes a god
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Bad god or what?
@ramen6175 Bible quoted GOD and he said " let US create man in OUR image" . Bible said the spirit of GOD was hovering onto the WATER.
@@cf8821 my friend I didn’t quite comprehend that is the spirit evil then
Kingdom under water
She is for real
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Your documentary is wrong totally wrong. Follow "life is spiritual by erica mukisa" I promise u will learn a lot from her because she is an ex devil worshipper who got a chance to mert these fallen angels. She could do assignments on their behalf because they fear to enter some places that is why they use human beings. Be careful with the documentaries you follow especially on TH-cam. This story teller must be a devil's agent. Thank u stay blessed
😂Funny you who do not even know that the same mythology you demonise is actually the same you worship and it is part of you, everything came from the primordial/celestial waters of Nu and humans are most like reptilian mermaids just take a look at sperm, our Web like fingers and feet. Maame Wata is the same as Auset (Isis) and also Yemaya (Yemoja) of the Orishas.
Yes my thought exactly, life is spiritual by Erica, mama Zoe. I would run with my life🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free
i came to comment this exact thing. This deity is the filthiest thing ive ever heard of.
Thx fr sharing. We only worship one God in heaven through our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ
Ok, the story of wrong. Who then is mami water? Tell us about her origin please 🙏
Im kofi Born on Friday and im from Ghana and we know much about her, She's One of the baddest Spirits people use for fame and trust me She's not good as every EVIL Spirit they give you what you want but later you Will cry because the things they ask you back are a lot so dont think to go and ask something from her
I am a British Indian for the Hindu religion, we believe in mother ganga she is mother of water, there at of true storys of example from the religion Sikhism there guru ravidass was visited by the water goddess and given gold bracelets this happened around 350 to 400 years, Google it.
Look at beauty 💋
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Yes
The Marine Kingdom is mostly WOMEN - SIRENS (MAMI WATA)
The women who mated with the fallen angels and bore the giants
And the King of the Marine Kingdom is Leaviathan - the sea serpent - which dwells deep beneath the Mariana Trench
And they mostly get hold of you thru the water - or Tarot readings! Be very weary of women TAROT READERS!
Wooow, The power of AI
Riva Mumma (Mother of the river - As they call her in Jamaica)
I dreamed her when I went to Portland. There was a river behind the building I was staying and she dreamed me at 5 am telling me to come so she could heal me. She was really beautiful and dark skinned. I was afraid so I never went. She told me to bring 7 coins to pay the river. She dreamed me twice and I never did what she asked due to fear. She says she is waiting on me
@@casandrasinclairscreativec7041 You crazy? How you mean you didn't go? You want me come follow you?
@cassandra where you sick? Why she say she can heal you?
Water Deities/Spirits are very great at healing. Do what you are told to do. And it's best you go alone. They like people who can keep their secret.
Its not a myth its reality.
Everything in this life is spiritual... Many things to say. Dey playyyyyyy😂😂😂
Yemoja is one of Her many names and the protoype. Oshun corresponds better.
Oshun. Santa Maria della Mare. Aphrodite Pandemos. Bilquis the Elder (not to confuse with Her namdsake half-human daughter or niece and part-human granddaughter/grandniece) . Asthar of the Aksumites. Astarte. Sekhmet-Bast (the pacified form of Sekhmet) or Isis-Bast (not to confuse with Horus's mother) . Memphis the Nymph in Greek mythology. Mami Wata. Mamba Muntu. La Sirene. Mbaba Mwana Waresa's avatar or Nomkhubulwane. Mwana S'imbi, Lady of the Bisimbis and one of Nzambici's avatars. One of Sarasvati/Sararwati's mamy ocean-bound and river-bound frontier avatars. Grendel's mother in the Beowulf Saga of the Danes. Huixtocihuatl or Santa Maria della Mare again in Mexico.
Many names throughout all of human history.
Love Yemeya she came to me many times in dreams
@@deloriasilvergunter7900 She often visits specially gifted people with greater-than-average spiritual potential.
She want to tell you something.
Where I come from in the kingdom of Benin in Edo state Nigeria mami water is called Olokun
Thank God say Kofi never die
The little mermaid
Only they don’t bring you back or take you to their home just to teach you a lesson. You are initiated once you go with them, and will never be the same ever again.
She is beautiful if she really looks like this
come on mami, let’s go party
Sweet 💋
Mami Water is a blessing to us😊 but most people don't know
Na really Mami wata
She was a skilled fishermen😂😂😂😂FISHERWOMEN❤
Mami water is a hybrid
Half human half fallen angle and half fish.belive me.
Have you seen one?
Believe fokkal
A third each not half each
MIm from Liberia. We feared her. She is not kind or harmless. She's an evil water spirit.
We were told of this in Catholic Church she was a mamswater was a mean Desmond so was her husband she was thrown into the water like Lilith she was Adam first wife
😂 that is fake mermaids were made in the time of Noah the grate floods
@@user-sd3ed7er2o we were told of them in catholic school
This narration is so very, very wrong in many ways !! She was never human but rather a water deity on her own. People from riverine areas know about her and when beautiful girls are born,some are chosen to be like her; alluring and able to bring blessings or curses to those they choose to love. They are always attracted to water and moonlight but know something is different about them and try to blend in but always know that the land isn’t their true home. It is said that they cannot have successful marriages because they do not belong to the land.
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Im a decendent of the GODS.
There's one true God, and that is Jesus christ. Blessed are those who believe
Cap shit
Sharrap if u jam this mami water no matter how long u shout Jesus if it wan kill u
U go die
In Guyana its wata mumma
I'm Daddy Wata
Those are fallen angels evil spirit
It seems to happen to children mostly
Mami water took her necklace back 😂😂😂
Mami water please I m interested madam took me in to your home water Mary me please I need you I m willing❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Lol hell that kid was probably happy AF tho lmao
African gods
Yemoja is a sea deity in African lore.. I can see that there are many followers for this spirit. Do not be fooled, a spirit who gives and takes is not benovelent. Kofi is a Ghanaian name so what are his chances of living in Ondo in Nigeria. All you heard here is questionable.
I'm from West Africa and this NOT the story I grew up with 😢
What country are you from?
Ghana
@@marilynem5979 same but I have heard some did protect tho .I'm from kumasi
I see..had no idea
.thanks
he story is Tampered with my friend making it look good . that thing would have takin the boy or for a sacrifice but I would not know. to would assum there still there my parent had told n I believe 100% at the Time there was a war n my parent had seen the assuming the creator had must’ve been protected.I say cuz was like in middle of water trying to get to the other side
Oshun.
Honestly us from africa know this video is all cap as much as I love mermaids, mami water are actually referred to as sirens and not actual mermaids
So sad Kofi got cursed just for us to hear this story
Mammy water actually
She was bound to the sea after gaining too much knowledge to live on land
Honestly sounds like a bad moral one of conformity. Great power comes great responsibility he could have used his new abilities to benefit his village so they would no longer be afraid of him but instead succumbed to public pressure and ignorance. At least thats my interpretation. Regardless i am dying to see the new movie called mami wata that premiered this year. Hopefully it will be made available soon it looked ao beautiful!
Where is the movie premiere?
There is no new movie called Mami wata it is a west African tale
this is the story we teach black children? not to be great or different but to be the same as everyone else and live a "content" lifestyle? no wonder our culture is as is. also, a deity "(not the true and living God) took him to an "underworld' warned him not to tell, gave him a "gift" that "changed" him. then he told the secret and there was no punishment? where was the lesson here?