#yoruba orisha

[sailorjojogames]

Day 40: Power (make a sim based on a goddess or god)

Yemaya 🌊 & Oshun 🍯

Many Thanks to all the cc creators @sheabuttyr @sentate @ice-creamforbreakfast @satisim @myobi

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100 Days CAS Challenge ish

Disclaimer: It will not take me 100 days to do this challenge because  am only using this challenge to create a save file and to use the CAS more… best believe I used build and buy mode to create ✨ lol.🙈  

this day is the main reason, why i have been procrastinating... thought i would have learnt how to pose by now!! 😣😭. and make god-like sims like @nefarrilou Soon come 🙏🏾.

I hope i was able to do Yemaya and Oshun justice ! cos i was STRESSED!! I need to make Shango next!

[jeneka]

[arjuna-vallabha]

Oshunmare/Oxumare by Nelson Boeira Faedrich

[yearningforunity]

Oya’s Betrayal

Oya’s Betrayal tells a Yoruba tale, a patakí, about a relationship between orishas Ogun, Oya, and Shango in a Renaissance style. Harmonia Rosales was inspired by artistic depictions of the Roman myth of Vulcan, Venus, and Mars.

Harmonia Rosales

[oliviersilven]

AFRICAN GODS SKETCHES More details on BEHANCE: https://www.behance.net/gallery/193959725/AFRICAN-GODS-SKETCHES TUMBLR: http://oliviersilven.tumblr.com/ Sketch+Cintiq+Photoshop. All Artwork Copyright Olivier SILVEN.

[lowcountry-gothic]

Festa de Orixá, by Breno Loeser. | 1, 2

[jadeseadragon]

Harmonia Rosales @honeiee

"A small portion of a larger painting. This is Olokun, the god of the primordial waters. Angered that Obatala created the lands without her consent, Olokun sought to reclaim her dominion with a great flood. To stop the floods Obatala chains her to the bottom of the ocean…this is the very moment before she is imprisoned within her own kingdom. She stands as a symbol of the chaos that bubbles beneath our calm surface, a profound reminder of the lesser-known parts of ourselves we often retreat from."

[karmicstar]

[voodoocarving]

Oya and Aja, two goddesses of the Yoruba people this and other figurines in my Etsy store

[thespiritualsolarsystem]

[feminoiredesigns]

Portrait artwork of a melanated mermaid, a beautiful black ocean queen. Water goddess, Yemaya (aka Yemoja, Yemanja) is partially submerged in the ocean, wearing pearl jewelry; digital art of an orisha from Yoruba (Nigerian) culture and spirituality depicted by a young African woman. Art by Dee Claire. Etsy download.

[astronautademarmore1]

Yemanjá, Rainha do Mar! 🤍🌊

Imensamente feliz e honrado pelo convite do meu amigo Del Nunes por contribuir nesse editoria coletiva de celebração a Yemanjá. A importância desse projeto vai além da arte, é uma homenagem sincera através da arte. Grato por fazer parte deste momento único de celebrações e manifestação artística dedicada à Rainha do Mar.

O editorial Yemanjá, Rainha do Mar 2024 é uma homenagem à Orixá Mãe e foi realizado no Rio Vermelho, Salvador, Bahia.

direção geral DEL NUNES (@uendelns) 📸 direção de fotografia JESSICA DOCEZERO (@docezeroprod) 🩵 interpretando Yemanjá TEKA FERRER (@teka.ferrer), 🧵 stylist LUANA VITÓRIA (@udeunique), 📄 produção YASMIN MOREIRA (@yasmoreira) 🧢 assistência de produção HUGO de SANTANA (hugo_santt) 🎨 coleção RAIANA BRITO (@raianabritto), ASTRONAUTA DE MÁRMORE (@astronautade.marmore), DRIELE MART(@drielemart), HANNA GOMES (@the.hannag) 🥁 trilha sonora FAUSTINO BEATS (@faustinobeats)

[jeneka]

"Les vents d'Oya", acrylic on paper, 21 X 29,7 cm

[arjuna-vallabha]

Eshu/Exu/Elegua by Nelson Boeira Faedrich

[kemetic-dreams]

Yoruba gods protect Fidel Castro: priest

By Reuters

January 21, 20083:31 PM ESTUpdated 17 years ago

HAVANA (Reuters) - Yoruba gods protect ailing Fidel Castro from witchcraft and want to see him continue leading Cuba, the first priest of the Santeria religion to be elected to parliament said on Monday.

"Olodumare says he is the one that should be there and so he is untouchable," said Antonio Castaneda, a babalawo (priest) in the religion slaves brought to colonial Cuba from Nigeria.

Hurricanes may batter Cuba this year, but Castro's health will not break, according to the orishas (deities), he said.

The 614-seat National Assembly elected on Sunday must approve Cuba's top leadership at its first session on February 24, when Cubans will learn whether Castro will retire as head of state.

Castro, 81, has not appeared in public since stomach surgery for an undisclosed illness forced him to hand over power temporarily to his brother almost 18 month ago.

Santeria followers have believed their gods were on Fidel Castro's side ever since a white dove landed on his shoulder during a victory speech in Havana after his 1959 revolution.

Castaneda, who played the sax at Havana's famed Tropicana cabaret for 30 years, never joined Cuba's Communist Party, but considers himself a "revolutionary." He praised Cuba's social safety net despite widespread economic hardships Cubans face.

He said 60 percent of Cubans believe in Santeria and he can give them a voice in the National Assembly. Castaneda won a seat as president of the Yoruba Cultural Association of Cuba, which is close to the government.

The orishas augur a good year for Cuba, the babalawo said. "If Cuba marches ahead, so too does the Comandante," he said.

[nogetron]

Ogun, Orisha of iron and combat. As the son of the creator of earth, Oduduwa, Ogun is one of the most revered deities of the Orishas. After Oduduwa had created the lands, Ogun lead the way for the other Orishas, clearing a path to earth. Together the Orishas brought the many aspects of the world to earth, with Ogun as the embodiment of metal and minerals, he brought the land its hardiest materials. With these metals Ogun gave humanity the gift of technology. All tools, from blades and wrenches to guns and cars, derive from Ogun’s source. Ogun is straightforward and aggressive, often being compared to a hound in personality, able to face danger head on. However it is because of his nature that he is the patron of war. Being incredibly adept in battle, he is prone to starting conflict. Like his father/mother Oduduwa before him, Ogun incarnated into a human form in the physical world. Son of his father’s incarnation also named Oduduwa, Ogun inherited the throne of the Yoruba city Ife. However after killing two subjects who disrespected him, he was forced to surrender kingship to his son Oranmiyan. Despite leaving the physical world, Ogun promised to aid those who called to him.

Ogun is one of the most popular and well known members of the Yoruba Orishas, with his worship transmitting to large portion of west Africa. One can find west African counterparts of Ogun in the Dahomey Gu and the Ewe Vodun Egu who is also referred to as Gu. Due to the slave trade, Ogun’s worship was transmitted and spread to the americas. His American theological descendants lay across the practices of the Brazilian Candomblé, Santeria, Dominican Vudu, New Orleans Voodoo, and Haitian Vodou. In Candomblé practices Ogun, known to them as Ogum, is synchronous with the Christian Saint George, Sebastian, Anthony and Peter. Ogun is the patron deity of many professions, with blacksmiths, drivers, soldiers and engineers being some of the many people who call upon Ogun’s protection. Ogun holds two festivals in his honor, the Ogun festival is called by a priest on the advent of a new moon, nine days later the festival starts and lasts seven days on the fourth they they sacrifice a dog an animal closely associated with Ogun. The second is the Elefon festival which celebrates the return of Yoruba warriors and the start of a new crop season, these celebrations hold a ceremony in which an individual wearing an Epa mask jumps off a mound, losing balance or falling is said to be an omen fortelling a bad crop year. Ogun’s many names include Ogou, Gou, Ogu and Oggun. Yoruba legends states that Ogun was an earthly king that ruled over Ife along with other earthly Orishas, some have claimed that this could mean that the Orishas are deified kings whose exploits were turned into legend. However others have countered saying that adopting the name of a Yoruba god when taking the throne of Ife may have been a tradition, with those rulers exploits being woven into the already existing deity’s narrative.