Atete is a fertility goddess worshipped at
Kafa (
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
).
It is probably the subject of an ancient fertility rite performed by women who collect various sacred plants and throw them into the river.
[Michael Jordan, ''Encyclopedia of Gods'', Kyle Cathie Limited, 2002]
References
African goddesses
Fertility goddesses
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