Editing Ayida-Weddo (section)

==Family==
Ayida-Weddo is a member of the [[Rada loa|Rada]] family of loa, associated with protection, benevolence, and love.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900016740 |title=The Voodoo Encyclopedia: Magic, Ritual, and Religion |publisher=ABC-CLIO |others=Jeffrey E. Anderson |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-61069-208-3 |location= |pages=167 |oclc=900016740}}</ref> In many stories, she is married to [[Damballa]]. As his inseparable companion, she shares him with his concubine, [[Erzulie|Erzulie Freda]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gordon |first=Leah |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44854654 |title=The Book of Vodou |date=1985 |publisher=Barron's Educational Series |isbn=978-0-7641-5249-8 |edition= |location= |pages=62 |oclc=44854654}}</ref> In others, she is one with Damballa: a single entity sharing a dual spirit. As his female aspect, together they represent dynamism, life, creation, and the intertwined harmony of male and female, earth and heaven, and body and spirit.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Coleman |first=Will |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40631697 |title=Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African/American Ways of "Telling the Story" |date=2000 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |isbn=0-271-01944-1 |location= |pages=13 |oclc=40631697}}</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bellegarde-Smith |first1=Patrick |last2=Michel |first2=Claudine |title=Danbala/Ayida as Cosmic Prism |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.1.4.0458 |journal=Journal of Africana Religions |year=2013 |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=458–487 |doi=10.5325/jafrireli.1.4.0458 |s2cid=142805771 |issn=2165-5405}}</ref>