Yemoja

Mother of waters and of the orisa; protector of women and children.

Parentage

• parent: Olodumare

Children

• Olokun
• Oya

Domains

• waters motherhood
• fertility protection
• rivers

Powers

• Protects pregnant women and children
• Gives birth to rivers and orisa

Epithets

• Yemọja awoyo, ọkọ rara yoruba · Yemoja awoyopraise-name of the great mother of waters, 'Yemoja of the broad/overflowing waters'; invoked as mother of the fishes and of the orishaBascom, William. Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World, Indiana Univ. Press, 1980 (secondary scholarship); Verger, Pierre. Notes sur le culte des Orisa et Vodun, IFAN, 1957 (secondary scholarship)
• Ìyá ọmọ ẹja yoruba · Iya omo eja'Mother whose children are the fish' — oríkì epithet of YemojaVerger, Pierre. Notes sur le culte des Orisa et Vodun, IFAN, 1957 (secondary scholarship)

Relations

• sibling: EshuFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Olodumare) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: ObatalaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Olodumare) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: OduduwaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Olodumare) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: OrunmilaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Olodumare) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: OsanyinFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Olodumare) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: OshunFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Olodumare) per the figures' cited genealogy.

Sources

• existence: Oriire, Yemoja; Wikipedia, Yemọja (secondary)