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Yemoja/Olokun

1993 Health & Fitness
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Release : 1993
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis Yemoja/Olokun by : Awo Fá'lokun Fatunmbi

Download or read book Yemoja/Olokun written by Awo Fá'lokun Fatunmbi. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yemoja/Olokun is the name is the name of two spiritual forces in the West African religious tradition called Ifa. The word Yemoja is an elision of the Yoruba Oriki (praise name ) Yeye mo oja, which means Mother of Fish. The word Olukun is a contraction of Olohun meaning owner, and okun meaning ocean. Both of these words are the names given to describe a complex convergence of Spiritual Forces that are key elements in the Ifa concept of fertility. Those Spritual Forces that form the foundation of Yemoja and Olokun's role in the Spirit Realm relate to the relationship between water and birth. .

Ifá Will Mend Our Broken World

1997 Africa
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Release : 1997
Genre : Africa
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Book Synopsis Ifá Will Mend Our Broken World by : ʼWande Abimbọla

Download or read book Ifá Will Mend Our Broken World written by ʼWande Abimbọla. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yemoja

2013-11-01 Social Science
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Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Yemoja by : Solimar Otero

Download or read book Yemoja written by Solimar Otero. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas. This is the first collection of essays to analyze intersectional religious and cultural practices surrounding the deity Yemoja. In Afro-Atlantic traditions, Yemoja is associated with motherhood, women, the arts, and the family. This book reveals how Yemoja traditions are negotiating gender, sexuality, and cultural identities in bold ways that emphasize the shifting beliefs and cultural practices of contemporary times. Contributors come from a wide range of fields—religious studies, art history, literature, and anthropology—and focus on the central concern of how different religious communities explore issues of race, gender, and sexuality through religious practice and discourse. The volume adds the voices of religious practitioners and artists to those of scholars to engage in conversations about how Latino/a and African diaspora religions respond creatively to a history of colonization.

Maternal Divinity, Yemonja

1998 Religion
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Release : 1998
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Maternal Divinity, Yemonja by : Lloyd Weaver

Download or read book Maternal Divinity, Yemonja written by Lloyd Weaver. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As there are spirits in the earth, so the Yoruba believe that there are spirits dwelling in the rivers, lagoons and the sea. These spirits are revered principally by those who dwell near rivers, lagoons or the sea and who believe that the spirits, if suitably provided can in return provide man's needs. They control abundance of fish, they prevent the capsizing of canoes and river accidents; some of the spirits supply children to the barren. "Yemonja", for example, is believed to be the goddess of waters generally and from her body, according to the people's belief, all rivers, lagoons and the sea flow out. Today she is associated with the Ogun River and is given elaborate worship in those areas through which it flows, particularly in Abeokuta.

African Beliefs in the New World

2000 Afro-Caribbean cults
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Release : 2000
Genre : Afro-Caribbean cults
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Book Synopsis African Beliefs in the New World by : Lucie Pradel

Download or read book African Beliefs in the New World written by Lucie Pradel. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a kaleidoscope, the Caribbean world displays the vibrant colors of its diversity. Ethnic groups from four continents brought their customs and beliefs to this New World. The sheer number of African people brought to the Caribbean islands perpetuated through their spiritual vitality, the central role played by traditional religions in African life. Though they hadn't brought along the material support of their worship, they had buried in their memory other essential supports: memories of gods, of myths, rites, rhythms, tales, legends, proverbs, songs, dances, sculptures, all the fundamental vectors of their religious thought. Through a process of secularization, continuity, adaptation, creation, syncretism and synthesis, these elements helped vitalize the artistic, profane and sacred domains of Caribbean cultures.

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