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Yemọja (also: Yemaja, Yemanjá, Yemoyá, Yemayá;
there are many
different transliterations in
other languages) is the
major water spirit from the Yoruba...
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religions regard certain rivers as the
originator of life. In
Yoruba religion,
Yemọja rules over the Ogun
River in modern-day
Nigeria and is
responsible for creating...
- She was also
known as
Mother Giselle of
Yemoja,
Daughter of
Saint John of Goméia,
Initiated for the
Orisha Yemoja.
Gisele Cossard was born in 1923 in Tangier...
- the Candomblé
religion of Brazil,
Olokun is
venerated as the
mother of
Yemoja and the
owner of the sea. She is
recognized in Candomblé terreiros, but...
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relationships to
other orisha. Babalú-Ayé is
often considered the son of
Yemoja and the
brother of Shango. However, some
religious lineages maintain that...
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wives of Sango), Olokun, Oya (one of the
three wives of Sango), Esu, Ososi,
Yemoja,
Sopona etc.,
nonetheless it is a fact of
truth that they had all impacted...
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Niger River; ****ociated with wind, lightning, fertility, fire, and magic.
Yemọja - a
mother goddess;
patron deity of
women and of the Ogun
river Yemowo -...
- Oko
Olokun Olorun Osanyin Oshun Oshosi Oshumare Ori
Orunmila Oya
Shango Yemoja Osun
Huveane Tharu uThixo Qamata Hlakanyana Amagqirha Tikoloshe Hlakanyana...
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explains the
origins of
Gelede as
beginning with
Yemoja, the
Mother of all the
orisa and all
living things.
Yemoja could not have
children and
consulted an Ifa...
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spiritual cosmology where the gods Ogun, Shango, Shakpana, Ọya, Oshun, and
Yemọja (and
other gods on her level) exist,
being as
respectively powerful compared...
