#yemayá

[latin-american-diversity]

Yemanja: Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil (2015), Donna Roberts, Donna Read, Brazil

[encontroancestral]

You don't step on me twice

You can't step into the same water twice

Remember?

the water follows

And me too

Ora YêYê, Oxum. Odoyá, Yemanja. It's just love. Have mercy on us.

[jadeseadragon]

Harmonia Rosales, Yemaya with Ibeji, 2022, oil on wood panel, 36” × 36”.

[culturalukumi333]

🌿ORACIÓN PARA TOMAR CUALQUIER HIERBA DE LA NATURALEZA🌿 Ozain te saludo con respeto, solicito tú permiso para tomar parte de tú legado, es para (sanar, tomar, limpiar etc.) Esta hierba (nombre de la planta) en cambio te dejo este derecho (ofrenda) como gratitud de recibir la medicina. Gracias, gracias, gracias padre *Esta oración básicamente pidiendo permiso a conciencia, cualquier persona lo puede realizar #ozain #orishas #eshu #eleggua #oggún #oshun #Yemayá #obatala #shango #oyá #espiritismo #palomonte #Ifá #puebla #loscabos #mexico #chiapas #tlaxcala #guadalajara #españa #chile #perú #estadosunidosdenorteamerica #miami #diloggun https://www.instagram.com/p/CrkBAvgtElu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[karmicstar]

Life is way too short to spend it at war with yourself. Beating yourself up over and over about every little thing will not magically make everything better.

You must stop with the negative self-talk...it is getting you nowhere. What happened, happened...You can't change the past and no amount of self-hatred can.

Today, start over and choose to move forward with your life...you are not a bad person, a failure, or a disappointment.

What you can do, is change your future. Your pain is your strength...it won’t last forever.

Give yourself time to heal, take life day by day. Every day you survive is another step forward to your greatness!

So be patient with yourself...growth comes in many forms!

Be proud of yourself for how far you’ve come...continue to push through and keep fighting cause this too shall pass!

🐚🌊🧜🏿‍♀️

Theresa Cattouse

Twin Soul Connections

[smokingcaterpillar]

Artist profile: anetteprs on instagram

I don’t talk about her often and how my practice and culture relates to her — for some reason (whether it’s a pull from Her or not, idk) I feel the need to keep her more private — but She’s indeed close to my heart 🩵

[alashe01]

🩵💚🤍Bendecida Semana🤍💚🩵

15/07/24 🌟🏡

[theindigopriestess]

When I need balance in my life, I look to Yemaya, the goddess of the ocean and nurturing.

[jpozoc]

Finalizado… #dibucedario2023 Los tres últimos que faltaban: la letra x #xochiquetzal , la letra y #yemayá y la letra z #zeus #mitologia @rbesonias (en Arroyo, Castilla y León, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpI3yarMDrO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[presentezabala]

Jeran, Pertho, Thurisaz

[encontroancestral]

Iemanjá (also spelled Yemayá. Yemoja, Iemoja, or Yemaya) is one of the most powerful orishas. She is the mother of all living things, rules over motherhood and owns all the waters of the Earth. She gave birth to the stars, the moon, the sun and most of the orishas. Yemaya makes her residence in life-giving portion of the ocean (although some of her roads can be found in lagoons or lakes in the forest). Yemaya’s aché is nurturing, protective and fruitful. Yemaya is just as much a loving mother orisha as she is a fierce warrior that kills anyone who threatens her children.

Yemaya can be found in all the waters of the world, and because of this she has many aspects of “caminos” (roads), each reflecting the nature of different bodies of water. She, like Oshún, carries all of the experiences of womanhood within her caminos. Contrary to popular belief she is not just a loving mother. Some of Yemaya’s caminos are fierce warriors who fight with sabers or machetes and bathe in the blood of fallen enemies. Other roads are masterful diviners that have been through marriage, divorce and back again. Some roads of Yemaya have been rape survivors, while other roads betrayed her sisters out of jealousy and spite. No matter what camino of Yemaya, all are powerful female orishas and fiercely protective mothers.

Yemaya has a very special relationship with two orishas in particular: Oshún and Chango. Oshún is often depicted as Yemaya’s sister, and Yemaya allows Oshún to take residence in her rivers. Yemaya and Oshun relate to one another like typical sisters; they love each other and also have a bit of sibling rivalry. Chango and Yemaya are inseparable. Some followers of Santeria say Yemaya is Chango’s mother. The two of them eat together and Chango shares his wealth with Yemaya. Yemaya helped mold Chango into the wise leader he was meant to be from birth (although he initially lacked the skill to rule with grace).

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[abarroteraflores]

Yemayá ahí 💙aquí

[joannechocolat]

Mermaids and Mr Freud...

What do you think when you hear the word “mermaid”? Chances are, you’ll imagine a beautiful girl with a sparkling fish tail, naked breasts, flowing hair, gazing into a mirror: a scene straight out of early 20th-century Golden Age illustrators Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. Or perhaps you see Ariel, Disney’s 1989 cartoon version of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, with her cherry-red hair and purple shell bikini. That romanticized – and Disneyfied – picture of a mermaid seems fated to endure with this year’s live-action The Little Mermaid film (though the casting of Halle Bailey in the title role has prompted as much racist backlash as it has celebration. The mermaid of Andersen’s 1837 fairytale was white, say the purists.) But Andersen himself drew on a far older, stranger, and more subversive folklore to write his story. His tale of a mermaid who, falling in love with a human prince, is forced to sacrifice her tail and her voice in order to become human, was deeply influenced by Undine, the 1811 novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, which in turn was inspired by the 16th-century occultist Paracelsus, who coined the word “undine” to describe an elemental water spirit who can only gain a soul by marrying a human. And mermaid legends, like so many other fairytales, have been shared in many parts of the world for millennia. One of the earliest mermaid stories dates back to sometime around 1000 BC. In Assyrian mythology, the goddess Atargatis, who was venerated for thousands of years all over the Middle East, attains a half-fish, half-human form after throwing herself into a lake. The Yoruba spirit, Yemoja, who is represented as a mermaid, appears under other names as an ocean and river mother goddess – Yemaja, Yemanjá, Yemoyá, Yemayá – across half the world. Mami Wata – a water deity sometimes known as La Sirène - revered in Haiti and many parts of Africa, often appears as a mermaid, with a mirror that allows the passage from one plane of reality to another. And so it goes, from the ningyo of Japanese folklore to the sjókonar of Norse sagas. It is one of the most powerful archetypes in our shared dreaming. Nor were mermaids always understood to be mythological. Throughout the Middle Ages and beyond, European bestiaries and illuminated manuscripts portrayed mermaids as real creatures. On several occasions fishermen have claimed to have caught them in their nets. Early explorers reported mermaid sightings – although it is more likely that they were dolphins, seals or manatees, mistaken for mermaids by sailors expecting to encounter exotic beasts on their journey. Since then, humans have stubbornly continued to look for proof that mermaids are real (so far, without success).  What does the mermaid mean? Why is the half-fish half-woman such a potent, enduring legend? At the heart of these stories is the question of women’s power. Fairy tales and folklore have played an important role in challenging societal roles and giving people opportunities to discuss difficult or taboo subjects through the safety of metaphor – in this case, through the image of a woman whose irresistible sexual power over men is balanced by her own inability to function sexually or to reproduce. And in the days when pregnancy and childbirth often proved fatal, that might not have been such a bad thing. The mermaid cannot be raped, or forced to give birth. Not being human, she is not bound by the conventions of human society or the laws of the Church. She enjoys both the freedom and the sensuality of her element without any of the attendant dangers or discomforts. In folklore, the mermaid has independence, and can exercise sexual power over men, which makes her ultimately dangerous, unnatural: a monster. Perhaps this is why so many ancient myths and medieval bestiaries depict mermaids as untrustworthy, deceitful creatures, leading sailors to their doom. Their bodies are all sexual promise, but no sexual reward; and their voices are so enchanting as to drive men to madness. Unable to fulfil what some believe to be a woman’s biological destiny, they are often portrayed as soulless. Because a woman who uses without being used, who seduces without being seduced, who moves through water and air – whereas men are doomed to drown if they venture into the mermaid’s world – is a challenge to God, to the patriarchy, and to order itself.  In The Little Mermaid, Andersen tamed this older, more radical tradition. The moralism of his tale serves the dual purpose of mastering the mermaid – of making her fall victim to a human’s charms, rather than the more traditional way around – and taking away her power. The mermaid, made helpless by love of her prince, gives up her native element and the autonomy that comes with it, and exchanges it – via a witch’s spell – for a pair of feet, though walking causes her terrible pain. She also relinquishes the power of speech, which means that she is incapable of expressing her love in any way but the physical. And if her prince falls in love with someone else, then the mermaid is doomed to die on the instant, and to forfeit the soul for which she has sacrificed everything. Her entire being – her very existence – becomes dependent on the love and approval of her prince. Her independence, her challenge to the patriarchal status quo is gone. Though the ending of Andersen’s tale is – to a certain degree – redemptive (the mermaid, refusing to take the life of her prince in order to save her own life, is borne aloft by spirits of air and promised an eternal soul), it seems very cruel, especially as the heroine is only fifteen years old. A contemporary reader might well see in Andersen’s telling a warning to an emerging women’s movement – women’s power has often been seen as fragile, unnatural, and at the mercy of emotion. Unlike the tragedy of Andersen’s mermaid and prince (and of Fouqué’s Undine), the 1989 Disney film rewards Ariel and Eric with a happily-ever-after ending. And it tells their story in a cheery, colourful palette (a stark contrast to Kay Nielsen’s original dark, eerie concept drawings for the film), which while being pleasingly child-friendly, also reduces the mermaid’s essential alienness, and minimizes her sacrifice, thereby making her tale into little more than a love story with a little added jeopardy.

 But Disney also perpetuated other tropes. It is meaningful that the sea witch who provides the mermaid with the spell fits the older-woman archetype well represented in fairy tales: embittered by age, envious of the little mermaid’s youth and beauty. She is the one who demands the mermaid’s voice as payment for her services: a potent image of an older generation, silencing the voices of youth. (In Andersen’s telling, she too is the one who demands that the mermaid’s sisters cut off their hair in order to save their sibling.) The older woman is filled with rage and contempt for the younger woman; taking pleasure in their humiliation and the loss of their power. And as the tentacled Ursula in the Disney version, she is especially monstrous. 

  Over the centuries, fairy stories have always been reinvented to serve the needs of the changing times. And people have often fretted about this. (In 1853, Charles Dickens criticised the trend for rewriting fairytales to fit didactic, contemporary concerns.) But perhaps that the meaning of the mermaid has drifted further and further away from its origins in ancient folklore should not be cause for too much concern. Today, the mermaid has become the symbol of the trans community, whose members often feel the generational divide especially keenly. And there are endlessly imaginative ways to retell the tradition. (In 2008’s Ponyo, Hayao Miyazaki spins his tale of a goldfish who longs to be human into a charming meditation on childhood.) 

 Like the ever-evolving traditions of fairytales, magic, too, is transformative. In stories, magic acts as a metaphor for the change we seek to effect in our lives, in ourselves, in the world around us. Perhaps that is why fairy tales resonate so deeply with us. Why else would we cling to them, retell them in so many ways? They teach us not that magic exists, but that change is possible. They teach us not that dragons exist, but that monsters can be overcome. And they teach us to hope, in the face of a world that seems to be getting harsher and more confusing by the day, that sometimes love can save us, and that, even in the face of the cruellest kind of tyranny, we can still keep control of our fate, and hope for a happy ending –not just a Disney wedding, but something perhaps more satisfying. In films like Moana - or more recently Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken – the love story is with the sea; a story of claiming, rather than giving up power. Mermaids – in all their aspects – are still working their magic on us. And now, perhaps more than ever, it’s time to listen to their song.

[culturalukumi333]

¡LETRA DEL AÑO 2023! ♥️♠️🗿🌈🌪️ Se realizaron todas y cada una de las ceremonias previas para la letra del año. Por este medio se informa que una vez realizando la consulta de adivinación, ifa nos da el Odu que rige para nuestra nación siendo este el sagrado Odu de Otrupon Owonrin, siendo el orisa regente para la nación de México Elegbara y la divinidad acompañante Oya. La bandera será rojo y negro al centro con el ribete de los colores correspondientes, sin mas por el momento se subirá una explicación detallada realizada por los ministros de la iglesia para el pueblo de México. OLODUMARE GBEWAO. ATENTAMENTE MARCELO CANACASCO OGBE ATE BRANDON QUINTANAR IRETE ALAJE ALEJANDRO QUINTANAR OSA OSHE HÉCTOR CARDENAS IRETE LAZO Fuente: Sociedad Yorùbá de México CETEM #letradelaño2023 #paramexico #orishas #eshu #eleggua #oggún #oshun #Yemayá #obatala #shango #oyá #espiritismo #palomonte #Ifá #puebla #loscabos #mexico #chiapas #tlaxcala #guadalajara #españa #chile #perú #estadosunidosdenorteamerica #miami https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6J7BVONtT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rockclassics]

Iemanjá (Yemọjá na Nigéria, Yemayá em Cuba)

[rpg-wiccareborn]

Pasivas

Las marcadas con un * son personales.

Poder de Tres: (Próximamente)

*Arco de Cupido: Reliquia mágica en actual posesión de Persephone Halliwell, regalo de su padre, Coop, cuando esta cumplió los dieciséis. Efecto: contra NPCs a los que superes en AGI (Agilidad), tus dos primeros ataques de combate se consideran a distancia y no recibes contra-ataque. Contra PJs, salvas tantas Pifias de Ataque en combate como puntos de AGI le superes, convirtiéndolas en 3.

*Anillo de Cupido: Reliquia mágica en actual posesión de Penelope Halliwell, regalo de su padre, Coop, poco antes de que desapareciese. Narrativamente permite su uso para teletransportarse. Efecto: Permite realizar intentos de Huida en combate ilimitados, para el portador y un acompañante.

Entre Fantasmas: Conexión especial con el mundo espiritual, que hace que los espíritus y almas perdidas acudan al receptor buscando su guía de forma frecuente, pero también le otorgan ayuda. Efecto: multiplica el daño de sus acciones de Mediumship x2. Sus acciones de Mediumship sometidas al dado de Probabilidad siempre arrojan acierto.

*Excalibur: "Se dice que quien posea la Espada en la Piedra, será invencible". Reliquia mágica en actual posesión de Wyatt Halliwell. La espada es un símbolo de poder, pero también de gran responsabilidad. Es de suponer que su legítimo poseedor la utilizará para la protección de la magia, y a cambio la espada tiene propiedades mágicas que dotan de una mayor resistencia a su poseedor, mientras tenga contacto físico con la misma. Efecto: la espada te salva de hasta 3 pifias de defensa por tema, convirtiéndolas en 3.

Heredero de Excalibur: "Solo un legítimo Heredero puede invocar a Excalibur." Aquellas personas que tengan relación directa con el poseedor de Excalibur, pueden invocarla en situaciones críticas. Efecto: cuando tus PV se reduzcan a menos de veinte, la Espada aparece para ayudarte, convirtiendo hasta 3 veces tus dados de defensa menores de 3 en 3, incluido pifias en defensa.

Caballero de la Mesa Redonda: "La Espada en la Piedra se presenta a sí misma a todo Defensor que lo necesita". Para miembros del Aquelarre, o defensores de la magia que luchen del lado del Bien. La Espada acude de forma independiente en tu ayuda en momentos críticos. Efecto: cuando tus PV se reduzcan a menos de quince, la Espada aparece para salvarte de hasta 3 pifias en defensa por tema, convirtiéndolas en 3.

*Reina Vudú: Tu pacto con Papa Legba ha condenado tu alma a cambio de vida y poder. Efecto: Hasta en tres ocasiones por tema, tus dados críticos en defensa o ataque te aportan +2 pv o +2 MAG, a elección.

*Suprema: El pacto de fidelidad del Aquelarre hace que mantengas una radiante salud y un aumento de poder. Efecto: Hasta en tres ocasiones por tema, tus pifias en defensa o ataque te otorgan un bonus de +2pv o +2MAG, a elección.

*Orishas de la Familia Salazar: Las Orishas tutelares de la Familia Salazar les otorgan a sus miembros bendiciones especiales. [A elegir una Orisha Tutelar] Ogun: Orisha de la Guerra. Te aporta un bonus de +1DEF constante, en cuanto tus PV bajen a menos de 10pv. No convierte dado natural en crítico, ni salva pifia. / Yemayá: Orisha Madre del Mar. Te aporta +2PV por cada 10pv que pierdas. / Shango: Orisha del Fuego. Te aporta un bonus de +1FUE constante, cuando tus pv bajen a menos de 10pv. No convierte dado natural en crítico, ni salva pifia.

Ecos del Pasado: Tienes alguna conexión especial con un espíritu de un antepasado perteneciente al linaje familiar, que te visita de vez en cuando. Efecto: comienzas con +1SAB extra a repartir en Mediumship (+10%).

Familiar: Espíritu o criatura mágica que asiste a una bruja o brujo, actuando como guía espiritual, protector o ayudante en sus prácticas mágicas. Suelen ser animales. Efecto: Cuando tus pvs bajen a menos de 5pv, tu familiar aparece para protegerte. Tu enemigo tiene que abatirlo antes de volver a atacarte, por lo que durante 1 turno, no recibes Ataque del oponente.

Cocinitas: Tienes mucho talento en el ámbito de las pociones. Se puede confiar en tus manos para que todas las elaboraciones salgan bien. Efecto: 20% de descuento en todas las pociones de la tienda.

Amigo de Campanilla: ¿Eres tú, Campanilla? Te has hecho amigo de las Hadas, que acuden en tu ayuda para rociarte de polvos mágicos cada vez que necesites ese empujoncito extra. Efecto: Cuando tus pvs bajen a menos de 10pv, las Hadas restauran 5 puntos de tu Magia. En temas ubicados en Avalon, te restauran hasta 10 puntos de Magia.

Sherlock: Eres un fantástico rastreador, o tienes una intuición super avanzada. Efecto: Multiplicas x2 los efectos de tus acciones de Scrying.

Karmic Fix: Solución al Karmic Backlash*, que hace que los efectos de un hechizo realizado por una bruja o brujo oscuro sean caóticos, y puedan contra el propio usuario. Efecto: revierte el Karmic Backlash.

*Karmic Backlash: los hechizos utilizados para realizar tareas mundanas o para beneficio personal, pueden crear un efecto caótico para enseñarle una lección al usuario. En Spell Casting en solitario, para usuarios cuya magia se haya tornado oscura, si ambos dados de Probabilidad arrojan Fallo, los efectos del hechizo se vuelven contra el usuario, salvo que posea Karmic Fix.

NOTA: Melinda y Henry, les hemos quitado las pasivas, las dejamos a su elección. Solo aquellos PJs poseedores de reliquias mágicas o títulos especiales tendrán Pasiva personal.