Wanassa.Ma

10/05/2026

Mother, I forgive you
Daughter, I hope you will forgive me

02/05/2026

Grateful for a life so abundant in lessons, growth, connections, wonderful people, mentors, family, friendships, love, laughter, dance, food, cacao, and moments of pure gold! 🙏❤️

My special day yesterday was made even more special, as always, with some delicious, heart-warming and the yummiest raw, vegan, gluten-free, refined-sugar-free cake that has now become a birthday tradition, from the amazing ‘s Lick Your Plate cookbook!

05/04/2026

Death, resurrection an rebirth

Egyptian Goddess Hathor with her
vulture headdress playing a frame drum.

The oldest hieroglyph for the goddess of Upper Egypt

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The first historical cultures worship many female deities representing the Paleolithic goddesses fundamental aspects of creation preservation and regeneration.

She gives birth, she protects, she consumes and resurrects.

The vulture goddess represents one of the oldest mythologies of death and resurrection . One that lies at the heart of initiation rites.

As vulture, the goddess does not kill .
She consumes the dead in order to transmute the soul once again to life in the form of an egg.

The sacredness of the egg as a symbol of regeneration goes back further in time than we can trace.

Birds are twice born.
First the mother lays the eggs then the chick breaks out of its shell, in effect giving birth to itself.
The second birth enables it to soar into higher realms as a winged being.

The ancient mythological path of the bird goddess is a process of breaking forth from outgrown structures of personality and behavior just as the chick breaks out of the outgrown shell.

This is the basic metaphor of initiation.

Until that shell is broken what lies outside must remain unknown.
Once broken the shell can never be put together again.

It is the wisdom of no return, the womb cracked open lost forever in the initiates rebirth as a winged being whose spirit can fly through the three realms of heaven, earth and underworld.

And music, particularly drumming is always present in the rituals of initiation.
~ When the Drummers Were Women by Layne Redmond

03/02/2026

03/01/2026

Cacao landforms…

16/11/2025

12/10/2025

So excited to be offering an open workshop with my frame drum sisters on the one pulse that connects us all, within the framework of neighborhood festival.

Friday, October 17, 6:00pm
@ Mills Culture Center, Kaimakli, Nicosia

09/10/2025

Inner glow, outer glow…chocolate therapy for skin and soul in session!

05/10/2025

The story of the frame drum is not only a story of the past-it is a story of return. From the first pulse in our mother’s womb, to the sacred rituals of antiquity, through centuries of silence, and now once again in our hands, the drum carries within it the rhythm of life itself. When we play together, we remember.
When we drum together we heal.