PRINTS: HOLIDAY PRINT SALE: Yemenja, 2016. $300

Worshippers honor Day of Yemenja, or Dia de Yemenja, goddess of the sea, is celebrated by thousands of Brazilians, in Salvador, Bahia, on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016. Devotees offer gifts such as flowers, objects of female vanity, Yemenja statues, and sweets to the goddess. Yemenja is an orisha, a saint that represents the natural world. She is viewed as the essence of motherhood, the protector of children, fishermen and sailors, and most importantly, she is the sea itself. She wears a dress with seven skirts that represent the seven seas. Originally Yemanja was a river goddess of the Yoruba in Nigeria. When Africans were kidnapped by western colonizers as enslaved people for the New World, Yemaya traveled with them, thus becoming the Goddess of the Ocean.
Details – Handsigned. Edition: Limited to 50 prints. Medium: Archival pigment print. Paper: 100% Cotton Rag. Image Size: 10 x 6.67-inches, unframed. $300
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