Goddess Yemaya

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"Originally Yemaya was a river goddess of the Yoruba in Nigeria, far from the ocean. She was a nature spirit, an orisha, a powerful guardian spirit that reflects an important aspect of the God of the Ife religion. When her people were hoarded onto the slave ships, Yemaya went with them, thus becoming the Goddess of the Ocean.

Yemaya is a mother goddess, the goddess of home, fertility, love and family. Like water she represents both change and constancy--bringing forth life, protecting it, and changing it as is necessary."

Commission for Omoyemaya on ecauldron.net, who requested a little more of a lighter-skinned Yemaya.