"Honi soit qui mal y pense" (shame on him who thinks evil of it) The motto of the Order of the Garter.
The first image is the badge of office of Olokun Priest in Ughoton, ancient Benin before any contact with Portuguese and as you can see the big water (ocean), some of Its inhabitants (frogs, mudfishes) and Olokun himself are well represented.
The second image is a trinity dagger (Agbada).
The third image is the symbol of Isango misspelt as Shango (deity of a loud sound excrete from the firmament) in ancient Benin and was represented with a Rams head (Uhumwun Agbo) and not any double faced AXE (Ughanmwan) which some copied from the story of THOR (a Norse hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms in Norse mythology).
Disregard any image of any ancient African deity produced during British illegal colonial occupation of West Africa as many were manipulated for their easy control of African Spirituality.
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