Visiting Brazil, I passed by Salvador, not really sure what to expect. The city looks like a city in Portugal, beautiful houses, cute square, but the story behind it is much more interesting. Salvador is known by his black population because, during the slave trade, 40.000 slaves where broth to this city. I had no idea how to put that in a painting until one evening, I was walking next to the sea, when I saw her. In the days of famous superheroes, I have to say Yemaya is a missed opportunity to make an amazing heroin. She was standing strong above the sidewalk, and she was inspiring.

Yemayas journey

She arrived all the way from Africa. Yemaya is a goddess of the Yoruba religion, protector of children - people and sea creatures. Idea of her and her protection travel across the ocean ang give believe where there was none.

Symbols of Yemaya

She is connected to the moon energy - women/mother energy, as she is seen as mother of all. The moon is painted in the left top corner of which, one half is a shell that is also her symbol. Light blue is her color as she is a water goddess; we have a horizontal line going in the middle of the painting of a light blue color (Yamayas color) that symbolizes a sea horizon and under it we see a different sea creatures. Flowers on the left are Earthen Basins; on a right Cola acuminate and both are symbols of this goddess. The cowrie shells that decorate her hair; necklace of 7 blue beads followed by 7 crystal beads decorate her neck; all this with 7 fishes Malawi Cichild are symbols of Yemaya. She is often show as dropping stones in the water so she does same here.

The name of the painting comes from the way we call upon this goddess - 

Omio Yemaya