Bisila
Bisila is a Bubi goddess of life and the patroness of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. She is honored in the rites of malanga (taro), a crop symbolically linked to women and the matriclan; each family offers its first tubers to Bisila and the spirits of the matriclan in the Ripelo ceremony, asking for fertility and abundant harvests. In the Bötöí fertility ritual, women collect seawater and offer it to Bisila for the fertility of crops and women. From the 1960s, Catholic missionaries promoted her identification with the Virgin Mary, and the feast of the Virgin Bisila is celebrated in August with a pr