▷ Yemaya《Who is she, Petition, Offering, Children and More》✔️

Last Update: November 15, 2021

In the Yoruba religion there are different orishas or deities that deal with the contact with humans to offer your help.

Each of these orishas has tastes, different characteristics, phrases and prohibitionsso before attending or asking any Yoruba deity, you must understand each one of them.

Who is Yemaya?

It is a deity of the Yoruba religion and orisha of the Egba people, which is characterized by its association and direct relationship as sea goddess.

It is considered the divinity of women and fertility. Many say that she is the most powerful orisha, but because she has a very strong personality, she ended up losing her hegemony and was given the marine surfaces.

In the Catholic Religion

In this religion we can find the Virgin of Regla as the syncretism of this deity, as a result of the cultural crossing and the rejection of the Yoruba:

is the owner and protector from a town located on the shore of haba bays. Its colors, like those of are the blue and white.

In Spiritism

In spiritism, the same saints are not treated, however, this orisha is associated with Maria Lionzacharacterized by the following:

She is the monarch of forty legions, made up of ten thousand spirits each. She is considered the Goddess of Nature and Love. She Owner of the gapsof the rivers and of the waterfalls. He is asked for economic problems, for love and to do cleaning.

What does it mean when she talks to you?

When it is presented to you it is in general symbology of what is being sought protection or blessing of it, being an experience where feelings emerge due to the deep desire that is awakened when seeing it.

It implies that benefits are approaching that will be a great step and of great importance for your life, in the case of monetary issues, conflict solutions (with people or internal conflicts), sentimental problems, difficulties, among other aspects that cause concern and that you must overcome.

What is your day?

The day that is established as a holiday for this orisha, it’s february 2in which all his believers go to the beaches to pay homage to him, generally dressed in white, transforming the beach into a place of worship.

On this day people line up to receive healings of the priests of umbanda and candomblé in the sea, which are religions that also pay homage to her.

How to ask?

If you do not know how you should communicate with her to carry out a request or favor, then we will leave you the most important steps that you must follow, always maintaining respect that the deity deserves:

The first thing you should do is have or prepare the altar of the orisha. you have to pronounce your name while you touch the floor and later you must kiss the tips of his fingers, as a symbol of respect. When greeting her you must do it with great respect, repeating “Yemanjá, Yemaja, Yemaya Olokún”. He places the offerings on the altar in front of his figure. He performs the prayer for the request you wish to make.

What are your offerings?

Each of the orishas has different tastes, so before serving them it is better to check that what you are about to offer or offer is to their liking, since they remember that the deities are very delicate with this.

If you still do not know or are not sure what you can really offer to the orisha, then we will leave you a list:

Shrimp. capers. Lettuce. Boiled eggs. Tomato and chard. Ekó or corn tamale wrapped in banana leaves. Olelé or frijoles de carita or tapé beans turned into paste with ginger, garlic and onion. Green plantains in balls or yams with okra. Black beans. Palanquetas gofio with cane syrup. Burnt coconut and black sugar. Whole fish.

Fruit

Melon. Sideburn. Pineapples. Papayas. Grapes. Water pears. apples. Oranges. Cane honeydew

sacrifices or immolations

Rams. Ducks. Chickens or Angola Chickens. pigeons. Quail. Geese.

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It’s real. Lettuce. White pilgrim. Atiponla, Marjoram. cob. Blackberry. Water flower. Indigo herb. Watercress. Verbena. malanguilla. Umbrella. prodigious. Fern. Cockroach. Malanga. Gimp. Basil. good grass Gold button.

What you should avoid:

The Auyama, since the deity hates her.

What paths does this orisha have?

The paths of the orishas have been a facet, in which the deity has the possibility of take different characteristics and qualitieswith which you can offer us your help, your advice or your support in any of the situations that you find yourself going through.

Has 26 roads, but that does not mean that the other orishas have the same amount as her. Her ways are as follows:

Yemaya Asesu. Yemaya Awoyo. Yemaya Akuara. Yemaya Okute or Okuti. Yemaya Ibu Konla. Yemaya Ashaba or Ayaba. Yemaya Mayaleo or Mayelewo. Yemaya Yembó or Yemú. Yemaya Ibu Okoto. Yemaya Ibu Oleyo. Yemaya Ibu Elowo. Yemaya Akere. Yemaya Gold. Yemaya Ataremawa. Yemaya Ibu Gunle. Yemaya Ibu Agana. Yemaya Ibu Akinomi. Yemayá Ibu Iña. Yemayá Oggún Ayipo. Yemayá Oggún Asomi. Yemayá Ibu Nodo. Yemaya Yamase. Yemaya Ibu Alaro. Yemaya Ibu Yabani. Yemayá Ibu Tinibu. Yemayá Lokún Nipa.

How are your children?

Most of the children are willful, confident and strongalthough they can become a bit arrogant and impetuous on some occasions with the people around them, because like the sea, they tend to have a rather unstable attitude.

Men can seem a little mannered for other men, since they can lean a little towards feminine attitudes, without having to be homosexual.

They are people who forgive others if they hurt them and break their trust, however, they are resentful and will not forget what they did to them, so things would never be the same again.

In love there are enough people determined and very directThey will tell you what they feel without giving it much thought.

I come to be married to the orisha of the oracleOrula, the great Ifa diviner in the Yoruba religion.

The Patakies, says that Orula had to make a long trip to a meeting of the Awó that the deity Olofin had summoned, however, he took longer than he had thought, and after running out of money, he decided consult on your own who needed your help.

His wisdom, technique and his gift of divination, I lead her to obtain successful results solving problems through the Diloggun.

Orula on her way home came across rumors of a woman miraculous and guessingto which his curiosity led him to disguise himself and look for that mysterious woman, ending up arriving at his own house.

When she discovered it, she clarified that she was not planning to starve, however Orula got upset and took her with Olofin.

He ruled that he would take care of the okpele, the ikines and the Até of Ifá, but he I would be in charge of the Diloggun. In addition, every time she came out in her Oddun of hers, the priests or babalawos had to pay homage to her.

Prayer to Yemaya

There are a variety of prayers for this orisha, however, each one has a different purpose or objective that it will depend directly on your request. Next we will leave you one of the most popular prayers:

We hope that this article has been of interest to you and that it has helped you to expand and grow your knowledge about this great orisha of the yoruba religion.