Yemanja - Umoja wa Maji (Oneness of Water)

The oneness of the sacred universe is beyond question in the Afrikan worldview as the Supreme Being’s magnificently composed orchestration exudes its eternal unanimity with superb expression.  Elements within this great and divine expanse epitomise that oneness.  Vitally, water is such an element. With the essential ingredient of abundant moisture of the heavens stars and planets become manifest. As the earth emerges ocean water lavishly beautifies its surface as the catalyst for life. Life giving and life sustaining arteries of river flow run through the magnificent body of Afrikan soil the largest of which becomes the Nile. Repositories of pools and lakes are manifest as the grand regulators and incubators in the eternal continuum. The original primeval water of Creation never ceases to be but circulates throughout the world in cycles of everlasting flow millennia upon millennia into eternity. Likewise, the Afrikan self becomes a microcosmic representation of primeval water flow within the sacred universe. Of water, the abundantly blessed original man and woman of creation are eternal.

From the beginning water has held special sacred place in spirit life of the Afrikan. Represented by deities from the most ancient of times and throughout Afrika the reverence for the Creator Supreme’s water flow is crucial in the eternal life continuum. With ancient Nile Valley inheritance and natural organic flow in west Afrika heavenly water, fresh water and river flow became the preserve of the deity Yemoja within that region. As Afrikan souls from west Afrika were brutally kidnapped and forcibly enslaved overseas they remembered Yemoja.  Afrikans from other regions throughout the continent were also viciously captured and were all hurled together, forced to toil in the death trap of enemy plantations. The Afrikans from other regions also remembered their respective water deities and in Brazil where the largest populous of Afrikan souls in the western hemisphere were hurled into terror, Yemanja became manifest as the deity of waterflow at one for a whole people linking: Afrikan region to Afrikan region; Afrika and Afrikan diaspora; ancient to contemporary and so on – a water union supreme.  In this, the original water and its original people are divinely bound wherever they flow in the world.  Yemanja is a deity of Umoja wa Maji the Kiswahili words meaning oneness of water. Reflecting the profound oneness of that the spirit people of creation hold with themselves and with abundant natural substance. This is beingness at one with the Creator Supreme and oneness with the sacred universe.  One Afrika water – Yemanja.

Of course, the foreign criminal enslaving brute unleashed a torrent of savagery in the bogus attempt to derail Afrikan people from their way of living Yemanja. The continuing barrage of anti-Afrikan propaganda, imposition of foreign contemporary religious doctrine, infiltration of Afrikan spiritual systems (amongst much else) reflect the alien desire to permanently render the Afrikan soul disempowered.

Wonderfully and victoriously, the magnificent Afrikan deity of water oneness has continued to enliven Afrikan life throughout the world. Ever-greater numbers of Afrikan people are restoring this powerful deity to their lives for the divine water flow of global Afrikan ascendancy to be realised. One Afrika water – Yemanja.

 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).

The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an Afrikan-centred spiritual and cultural mission for ascendancy that embodies living spiritually and culturally rooted life. To find out more about URAN and its spiritual-cultural mission for liberty and nationhood click here. The exquisite URAN pendant can be obtained online by clicking here.

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