When you see that Starbucks logo, you probably think the same thing as me: “There’s that ‘smiling mermaid’ logo, there must be some good, but overpriced, coffee nearby”. Well what isn’t known to the world is that this is a picture of Yemaya, also know through out West Africa and the Caribbean as Yemoja,Yemowo, Mami Wata, Janaína, LaSiren (in Vodou) is an Orisha – said to be a Goddess of the traditional Yoruba religion that was brought by the enslaved Africans of what is now Nigeria to the west. She is the patron of women, in particular, pregnant women. When slaves were transported across the ocean, it was said to be Yemaya who protected them on their journey and kept them safe. She is kind and giving. She takes a long time to anger but when she does, watch out, you have a hurricane on your hands. She is said to be the “mother whose children number as the fish in the sea” and that is why she is presented as a two-tailed mermaid.Yemaya is said to bring forth and protect life through all the highs and lows, even during the worst atrocities that can be suffered. She reminds women to take time out for themselves, to nurture their own needs and to respect their deserved position in life.
Yemoja is a spirit from the Yoruba religion. She is an Orisha and the mother of all Orishas. She is often syncretized with either Our Lady of Regla, or Stella Maris.
Name variants[edit] Yoruba: Yemọja Portuguese: Yemanjá, Iemanjá, Janaína, Mãe da Água Spanish: Yemayá, Iemanyá, Iemanjá, Yemallá, Llemanjá, Madre del Agua French: Iemanja, La Sirène, Mami Wata, Mère de L'Eau Africa[edit] In Yoruba mythology, Yemoja is a mother spirit; patron spirit of women, especially pregnant women; the ocean; and the Ogun river. Her name is a contraction of the Yoruba words "Yeye omo eja" which means "Mother whose children are like fish." This represents the vastness of her motherhood, her fecundity, and her reign over all living things. (This section needs revision. In West African Orisa Tradition Yemoja is worshipped as a high-ranking river deity, and not the sea deity. River deities in Yoruba land include Yemoja, Osun (Oshun), Erinle, Oba, etc. Olokun fills the role of sea deity in Yoruba land.)
As Nana Borocum or Nana Burku, she is pictured as a very old woman, dressed in black and mauve, connected to mud, swamps, and earth. Nana Buluku is a Vodun in Dahomey mythology. (This section needs revision. Yemoja and Nana Buruku are two separate deities with different praise names, different sacred objects, different parts of nature and human condition that they are patrons of, and different priesthoods.)
Americas[edit] Brazil[edit]
Offerings for lemanjá in Salvador, Brazil. Umbanda worships Yemanjá as one of the seven Orixás. She is the Queen of the Ocean, the patron spirit of the fishermen and the survivors of shipwrecks, the feminine principle of creation, and the spirit of moonlight. She is syncretized with Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes (Our Lady of the Seafaring).
In Salvador, Bahia, Iemanjá is celebrated by Candomblé on the very same day consecrated by the Catholic Church to Our Lady of Seafaring (Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes).[1][2] Every February 2, thousands of people line up at dawn to leave their offerings at her shrine in Rio Vermelho. Gifts for Iemanjá usually include flowers and objects of female vanity (perfume, jewelry, combs, lipsticks, mirrors). These are gathered in large baskets and taken out to the sea by local fishermen. Afterwards a massive street party ensues.
Iemanjá is also celebrated every December 8 in Salvador, Bahia. The Festa da Conceição da Praia (Feast to Our Lady of Conception of the church at the beach) is a city holiday dedicated to the Catholic saint and also to Iemanjá. Another feast occurs on this day in the Pedra Furada, Monte Serrat in Salvador, Bahia, called the Gift to Iemanjá, when fishermen celebrate their devotion to the Queen of the Ocean.
On New Year's Eve in Rio de Janeiro, millions of cariocas, of all religions, dressed in white gather on Copacabana beach to greet the New Year, watch fireworks, and throw white flowers and other offerings into the sea for the goddess in the hopes that she will grant them their requests for the coming year. Some send their gifts to lemanjá in wooden toy boats. Paintings of lemanjá are sold in Rio shops, next to paintings of Jesus and other Catholic saints. They portray her as a woman rising out of the sea. Small offerings of flowers and floating candles are left in the sea on many nights at Copacabana.
In São Paulo State, Iemanjá is celebrated in the two first weekends of December on the shores of Praia Grande city. During these days many vehicles garnished with Iemanjá icons and colors (white and blue) roam from the São Paulo mountains to the sea littoral, some of them traveling hundreds of miles. Thousands of people rally near Iemanjá's statue in Praia Grande beach.
In Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State, on February 2, the image of Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes is carried to the port of Pelotas. Before the closing of the catholic feast, the boats stop and host the Umbanda followers that carry the image of Iemanjá, in a syncretic meeting that is watched by thousand of people on the shore.[3]
Uruguay[edit] In Montevideo, worshippers gather on Ramirez Beach in the Parque Rodo neighborhood every February 2 to celebrate Iemanjá Day.[4] Hundreds of thousands sit waiting for the sunset before they launch small boats with offerings into the ocean.
In 2015, the Uruguayan government estimated that 100,000 people[5] had visited the beach for the celebrations.
Cuba[edit] In Santería, Yemayá is the mother of all living things as well as the owner of the oceans and seas.[6]
They call her the goddess Yemaya, Ymoga (Mother of the Fishes), Iamanga, and Balianne. She traveled with them from Yoruba to distant lands, comforting them in the holds of the slave ships that took them far away from their homeland in Africa. Today she is also celebrated under many other names, including the virgin Mary (Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception), Stella Maris (Star of the Sea), and Our Lady of Regla...to name but a few.
Originally Yemaya was a river goddess of the Yoruba in Nigeria, far from the ocean. She was a nature spirit, an orisha, a powerful guardian spirit that reflects an important aspect of the God of the Ife religion. An orisha manifests itself as a force of nature. When her people were hoarded onto the slave ships, Yemaya went with them, thus becoming the Goddess of the Ocean.
Actually Yemaya shares responsibility for the ocean with another orisha. Olokun rules the dark and turbulent depths of the ocean. Her domain is the upper level, the part of the sea that the light strikes, where water evaporates to be carried to land by her daughter Oya (the wind) to make rain for the crops. Yemaya's gentle waves rock the watery cradle of the abundant life forms of the sea.
Yemaya is a mother goddess, the goddess of home, fertility, love and family. Like water she represents both change and constancy--bringing forth life, protecting it, and changing it as is necessary
Posted by Mindovermatter (Member # 22317) on :
Starbucks is racist and white supremacist with how they kiss the asses of white racist hipsters and gentrificators ironic....
Posted by kdolo (Member # 21830) on :
'Starbucks is racist and white supremacist with how they kiss the asses of white racist hipsters and gentrificators ironic.... '
Its not Ironic.
It is standard Albino operating procedure.
They seem to suffer from a creative deficit......and are thus forced to copy and "borrow" from Blacks.
That is not the problem though. The problem is that their low self esteem and narcissism prevents them from ackowledging the "borrowing" and thereafter denigrating the originator.
Posted by kdolo (Member # 21830) on :
Here is the official story of the logo.
"n 2006, Valerie O'Neil, a Starbucks spokeswoman, said that the logo is an image of a "twin-tailed mermaid, or siren as she's known in Greek mythology".[109] The logo has been significantly streamlined over the years. In the first version, which was based on a 16th-century "Norse" woodcut,[110] the Starbucks siren was topless and had a fully visible double fish tail.[111] The image also had a rough visual texture and has been likened to a melusine.[112] In the second version, which was used from 1987–92, her breasts were covered by her flowing hair, but her navel was still visible. The fish tail was cropped slightly, and the primary color was changed from brown to green, a nod to the Alma Mater of the three founders, the University of San Francisco.[113][114] In the third version, used between 1992 and 2011, her navel and breasts are not visible at all, and only vestiges remain of the fish tails. The original "woodcut" logo has been moved to the Starbucks' Headquarters in Seattle."
Posted by Mindovermatter (Member # 22317) on :
Hey it's good to know that you admit they are albino's. However Zaharan still doesn't believe they are albino's despite all the years of data posted on the ES forums.
It is kind of funny how much Whites use other peoples stuff, like Egyptian/Phoenician rituals and societies, to foreign numbering/numerical systems and maths to other peoples inventions and make it their own. A great example is yoga which was invented by dark brown skinned Indians but is now a "white thing".
BTW Kdolo, do you have an email by any chance? Because I got some questions I want to ask you about this stuff, sort of OT.
Posted by the lioness, (Member # 17353) on :
The first known mermaid/merman stories appeared in Assyria c. 1000 BC. Adapa, a mythical Babylonian figure from the Kassite period (14 B.C.)
The Mixoparthenos (half-maiden), a hybrid creature from the Black Sea, limestone sculpture, 1st-2nd century AD, from Panticapaeum, Taurica (Crimea)
Posted by DD'eDeN (Member # 21966) on :
Thanks mena7, very appreciated.
Yemoja/Yemaya/Ymoga/Iamanga/Balianne
Fish/Fisk(Norse)/Pisc(Latin)/Ikan(Malay)
Yam (Hebrew: pool/sea), (Mongol: coast to coast pony express = titla(Aztec: between points/tits = breast = ex.pressed milk)
the lioness, thanks, I didn't know that Adapa[wata(r).mbua](Babylonian) was Oannes(Sumer), as was Yam(b)O(x)Yah/Yemoja and Dagon(Philistines) and the Black Sea Mixoparthenos (mixed parts = chi.mera/ Xy.meya(Aztec)/Ci.mmeria/Ue-Crimea [.Tauri/Aurah/Hari/Tari]/Eu-xine/U-kraine[=great plains/grains of the north)/Uy-ghur-Aynu.tari/Ainu.Utari (of Japan who bred inu/dog/ari(Khoisan ridgeback).
Cool.
Panticapaeum, Taurica (Crimea) = Pontic/pond-pool-punted coracle/qufa/quaff/cup/cap/cape; tauri were 1st recorded natives of Crimea; Crimea = Ue/Way + Cri/sky-shine/Xy + bia (possible link to Ga.mbia River (Mandinka:Kambi = Cambysus/Cambridge??)
Posted by mena7 (Member # 20555) on :
The name Adapa of the Assyrian fish man sound African. I think many African ethnic groups like the Kongo, the Kuba use to lived in Mesopotamia.
Posted by DD'eDeN (Member # 21966) on :
