Yemoja Quotes

Yemoja was the root and Osun was the blossom, forever reaching for the sky. And so, Yemoja pretended to understand her sister, and Osun pretended she was understood.

welcome you. Gathered, you will be blessed by Mother Yemoja, who will ease your journey. May Olodumare take you home to safety and peace. Come forth.

mouth to speak Yemoja’s words. But before I can begin, his eyes open, black pupils swallowing the white.

Yemoja warned against revealing ourselves to humankind, but is this not different?

Well, you should be. It’s a part of your heritage, hon. All of our heritage, actually. You see, Yemaya, or Yemoja, is an orisha. A great spirit. A water deity. She is a protector of women, especially those in childbirth. So, we adorn this place with royal blue to invite her into this place and protect all of our expectant mothers.

I flex my feet, twisting my ankles. The memory reminds me of my mother’s tenacity. Of her love for me and of Yemoja’s blessing even before I was re-created. Of the orisa’s courage in creating more Mami Wata. It reminds me of my own determination. My choice. My decision to have the fortitude to make things right. To get the twins and the rings.

There are stories in this world, Omíwálé said. Bigger than you, than all of us in this room, than this tower, than every Child of Yemoja undersea. Stories of civilizations just like yours and mine, fallen because they could not each recognize a world--worlds, even--beyond themselves. Peoples so limited in thinking that they were happy to be subjected to the slim imagination of a few, if only it offered them safety in a world too big for them to comprehend. But it is not for us to understand the vastness of the world. It is for us to understand our place in it.