Yemaya

Yoruba Pantheon

Head Oshas

Yemaya

Panteón Yoruba

Yemaya is the mother of all children on earth and represents the uterus in any species as a source of life, fertility and motherhood. Omo Iya Aiyé. Yemaya is a Osha and is in the group header Oshas. In nature is symbolized by the waves of the sea, so that their dance is like the movement of the same.

Yemaya is the Orisha of the river that runs Oggun Oyo and Abeokuta, in Nupe territory, then moved to cover territory in Abeokuta, Ibadan and Shaki. Represents the intelligentsia, wisdom, and the characters changing as the sea.
Yemaya when He is inflexible, is quintessential guess, took his okpele Orula and this then handed snails (diloggún) to guess. She owns the waters and the sea, source of all life. Queen of Abeokuta. Its name comes from the Yorùbá Yemanja (Yeye: mother - Omo: son - she: Fish) literally the mother of the fish. It is said that we are all her children, for nine months that swim like fish in our mother's placenta. Always eat with Shango, Yemaya Okute except eating with Oggun. Tutelary Orisha is received as Sodo Orisha and do not receive their Omo Oya. Before the settlement was made at least 7 days before a ceremony at sea and Ota are seven dark or black and are reflected there. In the syncretism is compared to the Virgen de Regla (September 7). His number is 7 and its multiples. Its color is blue and their shades. Yemaya is greeted omio Omoloddé! Ataramawa Yemaya!

Family Yemaya.
Olokun daughter, so it is related to the sea, was the wife of Obbatala, Orunla, Aggayú, Babalu Aye, Orisha Oko and one of his ways of Oggun. Sister of Oshun. She was the mother of most of the Orishas and raised others.

Diloggún in Yemaya.
Yemaya spoken in mainly diloggún Oddi (7), but also does so Irosso (4).

Tools Yemaya.
Its receptacle is a bowl or jar of china blue or bluish hues containing OTA and live in seawater. Yemaya attributes are seven rows, seven Adana (handles), a crown wheel, boats, sea horses, fish, shells, corals, a sun, a full moon, a hand of snails, a siren, dishes, a lifeguard, a star, a key, a maraca painted blue, round fans, a pylon and all aspects of ocean iron, silver or silver. Their traditional Elekes accounts are made by inserting or 7 blue and white on blue, ultramarine and July 1 of water.

Yemaya power objects.
The object of power is a agbegbe Yemaya, duck feather fan or peacock decorated with mother of pearl and shells. An object made from the hairs of the horse's tail with blue beads and white. A bell that rings to be called.

Costumes Yemaya.

Yemaya wears a mantle of savory and a navy blue dress, you may have trimmings in blue and white. Take small bells sewn on it. Take your agbegbe. A wide belt of cotton with a diamond shape in the stomach around his waist.

Dances of Yemaya.
When Yemaya floor, laughing comes to big laughs. Her body moves like ocean waves, at first softly, then agitated by the storm. Then starts spinning like a whirlpool. Can copy to be swimming or diving in the ocean, bringing the treasures of the fund for their children. You can also imitate paddling. The other dancers make a circle around it making moves like the waves that increase in speed until they start to spin.

Offerings to Yemaya.

He is offering to Yemaya Ochinchin made from shrimp, capers, lettuce, boiled eggs, tomatoes and spinach, ekó (corn tamale wrapped in banana leaves), olelo (black-eyed peas or beans covered my pasta made with ginger, garlic and onion), green bananas or yam balls with okra, black beans, crowbars gofio with cane molasses, burnt coconut, brown sugar, whole fish, water melon or watermelon, pineapples, papayas, grapes, pears, water, apples, oranges, cane syrup, etc. He immolated sheep, ducks, chickens, hens Angola, pigeons, quails and geese.
Its Itamo Ewe are real, lettuce, white peregun, atiponlá, marjoram, mazorquilla, blackberry, flower water, mongoose, indigo grass, watercress, verbena, malanguilla, paragüita, prodigious, fern, cockroach, grass, comb, basil, mint , Buttercup, grass girl carqueja, ten of the day, crab reed, rattan ubi male, bitter vine, purslane, Jaguar, sea mud, avocado, plum, pigeon, copalillo the mountain, and so on.

Yemaya Crown. Kari-Osha.

To crown this Osha must be received prior to the Orishas warriors. Then during the coronation should receive the following Oshas and Orishas.

Elegguá, Obbatala, Oke, Yemaya, Ibeyis, Shango, ogue and Oshun.

Characteristics of Oni Yemaya.

Yemaya's children are willing, strong and rigorous. They are sometimes arrogant and brash maternal or paternal, changing character as the sea, sometimes calm and sometimes brave. Men are often mannered and female attitudes and must guard against being taken over by homosexuals. I like to test their friendships, recent offenses and never forget, though forgiveness. They love luxury and magnificence. They are just but a little formal and have a high degree of self-esteem.

Patakines of Yemaya.
Orula Yemaya was married, much Ife diviner, who performed miracles and had a large clientele. By then, Orula was intimately connected with secret snails (Diloggun), for Yemaya, mistress of the sea, fish, marine snails and everything, I communicated. He, in turn, interpreted these secrets through Oddun and legends.

So one day Orula had to make a long and tedious journey to attend a meeting he had called Olofin Awo, and as it took longer than imagined Yemaya, it ran out of money, so I decided to apply his technique and wisdom to consult on its behalf, who needed help.

When someone came to look for Orula for consultation, she told him not to worry and shoot the Diloggun. As the teller was born, his predictions were a great success and saved many people ebboses.

Orula, en route to his house, he heard that there was a fortune teller and miraculous woman in her village. He, like all odd-man-disguised and wondering where the woman lived, he reached home.

Yemaya, the discovery, said:
And you thought you, I would die of hunger?

So he, enraged, took her in front of Olofin, wisest of the wise, who decided to register with the okpele Orúnmila, and I tied the Ikin Ifa, which dominate the Diloggun Yemaya. But he warned that when Orula Yemaya Oddun out in all Babalawos tended to pay homage, with his forehead touching the board and say, Ebbo Eboada Fi.

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