Yemoja
mother whose waters are the sea
waterYemoja is the ocean and the mother of many Orisha, her waters both cradle and grave; to dream of the sea is to return to the first embrace, where you are held whether you struggle or grow still.
Fragments
Every river runs to her at last; she gathers the waters and the lost alike, and rocks them the way a mother rocks a child too tired to know it is crying.
Her love is deep and her temper is the sea's — calm as glass one hour, and the next a wall of water that remembers nothing of mercy.
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