Ala / Ani: Earth Mother of the Igbo (Nigeria)
Al, also called Ani in many northern Igbo communities, is the revered Earth Mother, the embodiment of the land upon which all life grows, walks, and returns in death. She is the custodian of fertility, morality, ancestral resting places, and omenala, the Indigenous customary law that binds human conduct to cosmic balance. Every furrowed field, every burial ground, every hearth
