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Yemaja
Yoruba river and lake goddess. She is one of the Triad of Ancient Mothers. (Yemanja (Imanje) in Brazil she is ocean goddess of the crescent moon, as Ymoa in West Africa she is the river goddess who grants fertility to women, in Cuba she is Yemaya (Yemaya Ataramagwa, wealthy queen of the sea - Yemaya Achabba, stern goddess - Yemaya Oqqutte, violent goddess - Yemaya Olokun, dream goddess, she is Agwe in Haiti. And finally as Yamoja, a contraction of the the sentence "Iyamo eja", meaning "our mother" or "my mother of fishes". ) |
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