Yemaya is the Yoruba (West African) goddess of water and life. In the Yoruba religion, Yemaya is an orisha, an animistic deity who is a manifestation of one part of God. The Yoruba religion has influenced spiritual paths in many areas of West Africa, and with the transport of West Africans to America and the Caribbean, Yoruba spirituality is present in areas like Jamaica, Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and the United States. It is also the basis for Vodun (“Voodoo”) traditions.
Yemaya is the patron of waters and oceans, and also of women and children. All life came from Yemaya; she is the creator of life and all living things, since all life originally came from the oceans. Yemaya is the Queen of the Ocean and the female principle of creation. She is the mother of all saints and is sometimes identified with the Virgin Mary; at other times she is equated to Our Lady of Seafaring. Her name means, “Mother whose children are like fish”. As the ruler of all water, she is the patron of fishermen and people lost or at risk at sea. She is also entreated to protect pregnant mothers and ensure safe, easy childbirth. Her wrath is expressed by the hurricane, which sweeps aside all obstacles. She provides the riches and fertility of the ocean and offers protection and nurturing love.
Yemaya is portrayed as a woman in a blue or white dress rising out of the sea. Sometimes she is shown with a mermaid’s tail; she is also depicted with two fish tails instead of one. She is strongly associated with moonlight. She sometimes wears a star crown or is accompanied by sea creatures. Her number is 7. She is sometimes associated with pearls.
Yemaya is the Yoruba (West African) goddess of water and life. In the Yoruba religion, Yemaya is an orisha, an animistic deity who is a manifestation of one part of God. The Yoruba religion has influenced spiritual paths in many areas of West Africa, and with the transport of West Africans to America and the Caribbean, Yoruba spirituality is present in areas like Jamaica, Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and the United States. It is also the basis for Vodun (“Voodoo”) traditions.
Yemaya is the patron of waters and oceans, and also of women and children. All life came from Yemaya; she is the creator of life and all living things, since all life originally came from the oceans. Yemaya is the Queen of the Ocean and the female principle of creation. She is the mother of all saints and is sometimes identified with the Virgin Mary; at other times she is equated to Our Lady of Seafaring. Her name means, “Mother whose children are like fish”. As the ruler of all water, she is the patron of fishermen and people lost or at risk at sea. She is also entreated to protect pregnant mothers and ensure safe, easy childbirth. Her wrath is expressed by the hurricane, which sweeps aside all obstacles. She provides the riches and fertility of the ocean and offers protection and nurturing love.
Yemaya is portrayed as a woman in a blue or white dress rising out of the sea. Sometimes she is shown with a mermaid’s tail; she is also depicted with two fish tails instead of one. She is strongly associated with moonlight. She sometimes wears a star crown or is accompanied by sea creatures. Her number is 7. She is sometimes associated with pearls.
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Zadie Smith - On Writing
1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
2 When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
3 Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no “writer’s lifestyle”. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
4 Avoid your weaknesses. But do this without telling yourself that the things you can’t do aren’t worth doing. Don’t mask self-doubt with contempt.
5 Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it.
6 Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won’t make your writing any better than it is.
7 Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
8 Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
9 Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
10 Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
I love when you Eat it like its the sweetest Thing youve ever tasted.
I like to be Consumed. Slowly,inhaled.
"Those who escape hell, however, never talk about it. And nothing much bothers them after that."
Charles Bukowski (via lungs-)
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