Yemaya Newsletter

A goddess popular in western Africa and Latin America lends her name to ICSF’s newsletter. ‘Yemaya’ is a contraction of ‘YeyOmoEja’. It means: Mother Whose Children are Fish—so numerous they cannot be counted. Among the Yoruba people of Brazil and the Caribbean, she is the mother of the waters and all the ‘orishas’ (gods and … Continue reading Yemaya Newsletter