Yegguá Yewa or a Orisha that represents solitude, containment of feelings, female chastity, virginity and sterility. She is the owner of the tomb, is among the tombs and the dead and lives in the coffin in the tomb.

Yewa is the Orisha owner of the cemetery and widely linked to the death. His cult came from Dahomey and lived in Egwadó. It inhabits the cemetery, is responsible for bringing the eggun to Oya and is dancing on their graves.

Its name comes from Yewa Yorùbá (Yeye: mother - Awa-our). Worshipped primarily in the homes of Santiago de Cuba, where it is delivered as tutelary Orisha and their children enjoy a high reputation as soothsayers and maintained the most rigid austerity. In front of their settlement can not be stripped, having affairs or disputes, act with violence or rudeness and not even raise his voice. OTA has a dark color and collected preferably in the woods or near the cemetery and 9 stones or pink roses.

The syncretism is compared with Our Lady of the homeless (October 30) and the Virgin of Montserrat. Their number is 11 and its multiples. Its color is pink. Maferefun greet Yewa!.

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Yewa family.
Oduduwa Obbatala daughter and sister, and Obba Oya, Babalu Aye mate, but always remained pure and chaste.

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Diloggún in Yewa.
In the diloggún speaks for Irosso (4), Okan (1) and Osa (9).

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Tools Yewa.
Its receptacle is a wicker basket lined with red and pink cloth that is placed in a small house in an interior room or at the top, far from Oshun. His attributes are a type hood and a smaller ekon in both white or silver metal, a doll or Tinajita, pearl, cowries, 9 shields triangular metal skeleton 22, 9 silver angels, an owl bone, a bone Eggun and a hand of snails. Their accounts are made Elekes pink.

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Offerings to Yewa.
He Entomatada fish offering, gofio balls with fish and peanuts. He immolated goat Chivita or girl, guinea fowl and pigeons. Animals immolate it must be young, females and virgins. Your Ewe are the same as Oya.

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Yewa suits.
Wears a pink dress. The wide skirt tied at the waist with a belt of the same material. She wears a crown decorated with many snails.

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Yewa power objects.
A doll and a basket.

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Yewa balls.
Yewa rarely falls. When it does, is to be mimicking tying a bundle. His manners are bleak, is very shy with men, because it is virgin and baila.Caminos of Yewa.
His ways are:

Binoy *.
* Ibu Odobi Adeli.
* Bold Ibu.
* Averika Oyorikan Ibu.
* Akanakan Ibu.
* Ibu Shaba.

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Characteristics of the Omo Yewa.
Women are dominant severe and demanding. They tend to be moralistic and hate for other carnal relations, which are beyond its practical possibilities.