Anjea

ANJEA is an Australian Aboriginal fertility Goddess. She is an animistic spirit known to the tribesman of the Pennefather River, Queensland Australia. It is said that Souls reside within her between incarnations and when the time is right she places mud babies in the wombs of future Mothers.

When a child is born it is believed that a piece of a newborn baby's spirit remains in the afterbirth, so it is the custom for the Grandmother or Godmother to take the afterbirth and bury it as soon as the child was born and the cord severed. The placenta was gathered for a special burial because it was considered very sacred. It was buried in a very pristine place in Mother Earth so that the energy of Mother Earth could keep the purity. It was believed that the mother and child remained connected to the placenta. This placenta would never be destroyed or discarded by indigenous peoples.

The burial place was usually near running water, in the sand on the banks of a river.
The Grandmother or Godmother built a structure of twigs and sticks, arranged in a circle and tied together at the top to form a cone, like a small teepee, to mark the spot. When Anjea sees the marker she takes the spirit and carries it to away and safely places it in hollow tree.
It is left for some time, rumored to be left there until the person whose essence it was originally dies, and then it is time for the new child to be created. This she does by mixing the spirit with mud forming a baby, then this clay infant is put into another expecting mother.

The mixture of water and earth to form the clay that forms the baby is significant because of the
life-giving role of water to the Earth and to the people.

Anjea is not only a fertility Goddess but she is also an Earth Goddess. We honor her for her creative and giving spirit.



Jai Mata Di