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Visual depiction of Yemoja

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Yemoja

Yoruba river and sea mother


a vast blue-robed goddess rising from the water with fish swimming in her flowing hair, mother of all the water orishas

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.