Yemanja's Symbols of the Sea

The Creator Supreme has gifted the Afrikan with the superlative genius flow to articulate and share symbology, one Afrikan to the next for ever-ascending glory. Symbology in the Afrikan world is wonderful language that reflects and represents phenomena within the sacred universe. As such, the symbols associated with Afrikan deities are profound assertions of the real. The magnificent deity Yemanja has much by way of powerful symbols that reflect her being. As the grand monarch of the seas she has a plethora of powerful symbols born of her domain. The sea and huge expanse of world arteries are abundant with life from vegetation to animal each with its own special quality within the divine order of the Creator’s universe. From this abundance of sea life and symbology emerge two important examples (of the many) for Yemanja - fish and the cowry shell. These are profound symbols of sacred life and how it is manifest through procreation (amongst much else). The natural order of divine Afrikan manhood and divine Afrikan womanhood in complementary ascendancy produce the sacred young ones whom the powerful maternal spirit force energises to come forth and care for. Yemanja, this powerful beingness of Royal Queen of the seas, herself wed to the Royal King of destiny births life. She is the Mother of Fish. The fish symbol is both a powerful representation of life’s inception and also represents offspring birthed. The cowry shell represents divine womanhood the universe of the womb in which new life is incubated and from which it emerges. This is symbolised  as wealth profound, as the cowry powerfully represents the divinity of self and it’s natural source of formation. The Kiswahili phrase for cowrie shell is Ganda la Ng’ombe. The Kiswahili phrase for fish is Samaki.

The genocidal forces of anti-Afrikan agency during the Maafa of recent centuries were hell bent on destroying the Afrikan way not only spiritually and culturally, but also socially, physically and otherwise. From outright slaughter to the intentional skewing of natural roles and relationships the enemy imposed a barrage of stratagem devasting to Afrikan life advancement. Whatever the oppressive modality the Afrikan was vilely hurled into the enemy construct of dire circumstance of mere survival existence. Natural Afrikan manhood and womanhood was intentionally derailed. Stripped of the knowing of their pinnacle divine standards exemplified through their mighty deities Afrikan souls were subject to the enemy ferocity that set about design to bogusly render the Afrikan an object of scorn, disdain, misuse and abuse. All of this sealed in the doom of wicked alien proselytising that cursed water with heinous foreign evils grotesquely peddled as sanctified holiness and steeped in misogyny (amongst a host of other contemptuous ills).

Naturally, as divine Afrikan life is birthed in and from the sacred water flow of the womb, Yemanja represents the inherent nurturing, caring, harmonising flow of Afrikan manhood and Afrikan womanhood intimately and otherwise – the wealth of superlative beingness symbolised by the cowrie shell. She is deeply protective and caring of the young ones, the imperative generation lights of Afrikan continuance, symbolised by the fish.

Wonderfully, as ever-greater numbers of Afrikan souls restore their own spiritual and cultural way and return the mighty deity of Yemanja to her rightful place of reverence in Afrikan life, the natural flow of harmonising and complementary in Afrikan relations are again manifest. As majestic maternal safeguarding nurturer supreme Yemanja is called upon to purge the Afrikan soul of toxic ills and mis-relations. Just as she brings forth new life, she holds the capacity to bring forth ever-ascending new beginnings within life from the divine purity of her life giving essence.

During the observance of Yemanja Siku, the glorious symbols of Ganda la Ng;ombe and Sadaka can be found empowering Afrikan shrines, adorning the Afrikan person,  decorating the vessel of Yemanja’s offering and so on. These magnificent symbols are certainly symbols of elevation and profoundly deep meaning. As they are used to enrich celebration and ritual at the time of Yemanja Siku, the can also be an uplifting feature of Afrikan life throughout the year in honour and celebration of water beingness.

The observance of Yemanja Siku is marked by the seventh day of ninth month (so-called September) with celebrations taking place on Sunday 7th or nearest Sunday to that date. This is a wonderful time of spiritual and cultural ascendancy in honour and celebration of this mighty water deity and her deep, profound and progressive meaning to Afrikan life. This is an important time in imperative mission for global Afrikan ascendancy. Yemanja Siku is a part of the Afrikan Cultural calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN).

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