Yemowo
Yoruba · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Yemowo is not Yemoja and the names are close enough to make trouble. She is Obatala's wife, white-clad like him, an elder among the water powers, and her worship has contracted to Ife while his has gone worldwide — which is a fairly ordinary fate for a consort in any tradition and worth writing down rather than losing. The registry had Obatala and Yemoja and not her.
Domains
- motherhood
- waters
Relations
- consort of: ObatalaObatala's wife. The registry carried him — one of the most widely worshipped orisha there is — and not her, which the reference treatment notes is roughly what has happened to her in practice: his cult spread everywhere and hers stayed in Ife.Reference treatment of Yemòwó, whose consort is Ọbatala. (secondary)
Sources
- Yemowo is the Yoruba orisha of water, maternity and creation, consort of Obatala, worshipped chiefly at Ife.: Reference treatments of Yemòwó, her spheres, her consort and her shrine. (secondary)