Aido-Hwedo
- Date of account
- Fon religious tradition; recorded in early modern and modern ethnography
- Location
- Former Dahomey, especially southern Benin
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Aido-Hwedo is a major serpent figure in Fon religious cosmology, commonly associated in later summaries with the rainbow, the support or shaping of the world, and the deity Mawu-Lisa. Accounts derive from oral traditions, religious practice, and ethnographic or literary representations rather than a single canonical scripture. The figure is useful for comparing cosmic serpents, creation imagery, royal ideology, and Atlantic reinterpretations of Vodun. Details vary by source, and popular accounts may merge Fon traditions with neighboring or diasporic concepts without documenting the transition.
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