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| | Where Gods and Mortals Meet: continuity and renewal in Urhobo art African Arts - Find Articles |
 | | Here, statues, staffs, and masks are not made to be pleasing to mortals; they are, rather, intended to attract, honor, and entertain the edjo, those powerful spirits of forest and stream who lie in the realm of erivwi, the world of the dead. |
 | | According to Urhobo artistic convention, the gesture of an open mouth revealing rows of aggressive teeth is associated with a skull, especially the skull of a fish whose skin and flesh have been boiled off. |
 | | (2) Its association with marine life reinforces the common expression "Edjo n'ame rhe," "The spirits come from the water." During an interview held in September 1972, Oviede Aramuemu Aki, a prominent artist from Evwreni, commented on this aesthetic attitude. |
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