ᐈ Yewa 【Children, about your Colors, Coronation and MORE】

Yewa It is a divinity that brings good everywhere with great generosity. She occupies a very special place within Santeria.

He enjoys strength and intelligence and knows everything related to death like no one else. His wisdom goes beyond the unthinkable.

Yewa: Who is it?

Yegguá or Yewa It is a divinity that symbolizes loneliness, domination of emotions, the virginity of women, and infertility. She is the lady of the tombs, she is between the graves and the dead and lives inside the urn that is in the sepulchre.

She is the Orisha lady of the cemetery and closely related to death. She lives in the cemetery, and is in charge of transporting the Eggún to Oyá and dances on top of the coffins.

Yewa comes from Yoruba Yéwá which means (Yeyé: mother and Awá: our). Her children enjoy a great reputation as prophets and are preserved in the most severe continence.

Before their settlement they are not allowed to undress, have love affairs or arguments, act aggressively or abruptly, much less raise their voices.

It has an Otá (stone) of dark color and is brought from the forest or near the cemetery plus nine pink stones.

History

Yewa It is one of the deities related to rivers. there is a river named after her, it runs parallel to the Nigerian coast and empties into the Lagos lagoon.

It is associated with fertility in couples. its priestesses and priests are dressed in white colored clothing. and its believers are not allowed to consume food from the water.

The story goes that in the vastness of the universe, there was a beautiful palace made of glass, where everything was old and illuminated.

There lived Obatalá, who dressed in a white cape, and was proud of Yewasince its beauty was incomparable.

She had an amused smile, her eyes shone like stars, which signified chastity and candor.

They say that Yewa she never had the chance to see a man, let alone have feelings for one, because her father wouldn’t let her.

She did not reason about love issues, and lived calm and content, she was responsible for caring for and protecting a beautiful garden, where different little birds visited to complement the beauty with their songs.

Where plants sprouted with beautiful red flowers that combined with the green of the plants, and the roses showed their petals as if they were pampered by the hands of Yewa.

Around her, everything was harmonious and calm, which was consistent with the orange color of the flamboyant trees, and the yellow of the other trees.

As well as the other plants that harmonized the ramifications of the trees and the different flowers, making that place a fascinating environment, simulating an illusion of colors between pinks, reds and violets.

Children of Yewa

Yewa She is a descendant of Oduduwa and Obatalá, her sisters are Obba and Oyá, and she is the most loyal friend of Babalú Aye. She throughout her life was a virgin and candid.

The daughters of this Orisha are implacable and strict, with themselves and with the other women around them. They are usually extremely ethical and detest lewd acts. They do not like to have unreliable relationships.

While the children are noted for their ability to command.

Regularly, they have the quality of clairvoyance, due to the relationship that exists between their Orisha and that it directs them within the spiritual path.

Her necklace

The necklaces or Elekes in the Yoruba religion, fulfills the characteristic of symbolizing the divinity, and at the same time they have the colors that represent the Orishas.

These colors go according to the saint, they are different for each one in terms of shades and manufacturing, but ultimately their primary function is to stay connected with religion and what each necklace means.

The Eleke or necklace of Yewa, is made with various shades of pink, coral or red and jet. It is very simple and the number that symbolizes it is eleven (11) and sometimes four (4).

Her necklaces are based on opaque pink beads.

Some of her necklaces are made with sixteen (16) pink beads, four (4) black, one pink and lastly a jet, continue the series until finished.

There are other models that are logically made with pink beads, four (4) red and one original gutter, and finally a jet interspersed.

Yewa Treaty

Yewa She is the deity of the waters, and is also known as the Orisha of the river, she is a warrior, brave and with great strength.

Her clothing is pink and red, she has a sword in her hands, on her neck she wears a beautiful Eleke made of straw, adorned with snails that pierces her chest.

Yewa It manifests itself as a very precious deity, it loves to consume pigeons and duck. She is idolized in three (3) very old houses in the city of Bahia, this is because her ceremonies are very complex.

Their new believers do not understand the organization of their ceremonies and perform them as it should be, for this reason, and generally what happens, is that a person develops a ceremony to Yewa and truly performs is a ritual for Oyá or for Oxum.

These situations usually occur due to ignorance of simple issues, such as the clothing to be used, the dance, the songs, the signs that they carry in their hands, the weapons.

This Orisha always carries Ofa (an arrow or a bow) with her, which she uses when she is in battle or when she is hunting. It is essential that she in her ceremony have the Iko (it is a saucepan or casserole) specifically made of straw.

What is not allowed Yewa the chicken is like a bird. The story goes that one day when she had finished cleaning her clothes in the river, she put all her clothes that were still wet on top of the mountain so that the sun and the breeze could dry them, a chicken came and scratched with its paws everything that In his path he even found garbage, he threw it at his clothes.

Yewa Seeing what the chicken did, he washed the clothes again, but at that moment he felt great rage and said bad words, he even cursed the chicken.

His words to the hen were: “From this moment you will not eat any food and neither will your children, and you will remain with your legs open.”

This is the reason why in the ceremonies that are made for Yewait is not allowed to appear, much less approach the door where the ceremony is taking place.

There is another legend about Yewa which she recounts, that once she was in Abimbola (Nigeria) on the edge of a river with a container (Igbá) of clothes that she was preparing to wash, when she saw a man running towards her in the distance.

It was Ifá very scared trying to evade death, asking for help, she heard it and scattered all the clothes on the floor, and put the container on Ifá upside down and immediately sat on it.

After a while death came and asked Yewa if he had seen a man, and gave him his physical characteristics. Being so sincere (a quality of her own), he replied that she saw him and that she went walking towards the river, death prepared to follow her steps.

When death went looking for him, Ifá came out of hiding under the container, and Yewa she took him home, and they say that some time later they got married.

Who is in Santeria?

When the slaves were taken to Cuba, they felt the danger of losing their culture and their roots, and for this reason each saint took the name of a saint of the Catholic religion.

But at the same time, this was because the slaves came from many places in Africa, and each one had a different name.

Yewa in Santeria it is syncretized in:

The Virgin of Sorrows. Saint Clare of Assisi. Our Lady of the Forsaken. Saint Rose of Lima. Our Lady of Monserrate.

Yewa se Corona

This deity is a beautiful and chaste spirit, she was the only daughter of Oduduwa.

She always remained a virgin, which is why she cannot have naturally crowned children in Osha.

Yewa until her death she was pure, so she is not crowned and she has no children either.

She is known as the Orisha who showed excessive jealousy. She intensely loves her chaste and pure children. And because of this, in her prayers, she snatches her offspring from her husbands in a perverse way.

It is advisable to maintain a good relationship with Yewaon the subject of her offspring, she must protect herself, and pamper this Orisha, so that she in turn pampers her son and he can have a partner.

Her youngest children, such as Omo Shangó, and that she, as her parent, cannot invoke her since she resists helping him, and is also capable of alienating the couple regarding the subject of love.

Colors

The main color of Yewa it’s the pink one.

Offerings

The favorite food of Yewa as an offering is fresh fish, decorated with tomatoes, peanut balls and fish with gofio.

Among the animals that are offered are the following:

The animals to consecrate in the case of being female, must be virgin and generally young.

The Ewe (herbs) that are offered to him are those mentioned below:

All offerings given to Yewamust be placed inside a basket that must be woven into branches and lined with red and pink fabrics.

This basket is taken to a small house. Already being in his room, he puts himself in a space where he is comfortable, that is very well closed and away from the figure of Oshún.

Yewa roads

This Orisha has several paths, all related to the appearance of death. The most representative are:

Within its paths the most named is Yewa Binoyé, which means when I dwell in Egwadó on earth, was at that time a strong princess.

The crown that she wears on her head reminds her of those moments of her life.

When speaking of the virginity and purity of Yewadoes not refer only to the chastity of the woman but also to that of the man.

To crown this saint, it is necessary to comply with everything required, since if done incorrectly, the person to whom the saint is going to be made and who does it may die.

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