Wagadu (mythology)

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Wagadu is an ancient Soninke goddess, whose disappearance and rediscovery are the subject of the ancient Dausi epic in a version of Mande mythology. She is related to Soninke legends and folklore set during the Soninke's heroic era, roughly the 6th to 1st centuries BC.^[1][2]