Yemoja's Embrace

With this 3 piece set, Yemoja's energy of unconditional love and support will help you to feel safe and secure in your own skin again. She will provide to you the warm, nourishing love that you are always trying to share with others. She wants you to remember that, as amazing, inspiring, and strong as you are, even Wonder Woman has to take a break sometimes; its ok to curl up on this Divine Mother's lap so she can nourish and support you while you heal and refill your energy stores. 
 
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In Yorùbá mythology, Yemoja is a mother goddess who is known to nurture and sustain her children (followers); patron deity of women, especially pregnant women; and the Ogun river (the waters of which are said to cure infertility). Her parents are Oduduwa and Obatala. She had one son, Orungan, who raped her successfully one time and attempted a second time; she exploded instead, and fifteen Orishas came forth from her. They include Ogun, Olokun, Shopona and Shango. She is also venerated in Voodun as LaSiren and Lemanja in Brazilian Candomblé.
 
In the Umbanda religion, Yemoja is a mermaid goddess of the ocean and patron deity of the survivors of shipwrecks. In Santería, Yemoja is the equivalent of Our Lady of Regla. Every February 2 there is a celebration of Yemanja which involves large processions of people walking out in to the sea and celebrations to the sea goddess.
 
Yemayá, as she is known in Santería, is seen as the mother of all living things as well as the owner of all waters. Her name is a contraction of Yoruba words that mean "Mother whose children are like fishes". This represents the vastness of her motherhood, her fecundity and her reign over all living things. Her number is 7 (a tie into the 7 seas), her colors are blue and white or clear (all aquatic colors).
 
As Iemanja Nana Borocum, or Nana Burku, she is pictured as a very old woman, dressed in black and mauve, connected to mud, swamps, earth. Nana Buluku is an ancient god in Dahomey mythology. Yemoja is a water deity and is experienced as the euphoric layer of the ocean, which is conducive to the growth of plants and animals. The ocean is therefore the most fruitful and acts as a womb for the generation of life. She embodies the principle which gives humanity the ability to perpetuate its existence. She incubates life in her womb and provides the conditions in which the sperm and egg can come together for the purpose of procreation. As a water deity she is seen as one of the primal sources of Female power. And her primary function is to nurture physical, psychological and spiritual growth. 
 
(Excerpt from Goddess & Heroines by Patricia Monaghan; Compiled by Queen Mother Osunnike of The Institute of Whole Life Healing)