Showing posts with label Goddesses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goddesses. Show all posts

Monday, December 10

Iansan


 
 
This song is a tribute to Iansan:the Goddess of the wind, lightening and bolts.She is the spirit of change, transition, and the chaos that often brings it about.
 
Iansa/ IANSAN

Demburé, Inemburé
Mavanjú
Inemburé mavamjú
Inemburé BelaOya
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Senhora das nuvens de chumbo /LADY OF THE CLOUDS OF LEAD
Senhora do mundo dentro de min /LADY OF THE WORLD INSIDE OF ME
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios /QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Tempo Bom, Tempo ruim /GOOD WEATHER, BAD WEATHER
Demburé, Inemburé
Mavanjú
Inemburé mavamjú
Inemburé BelaOya

Senhora das chuvas de junho/LADY OF JUNE'S RAIN
Senhora de tudo dentro de mim/LADY OF EVERYTHING IN ME
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Tempo Bom, Tempo Ruim/GOOD WEATHER, BAD WEATHER

Eu sou o céu para as tuas tempestades/I AM THE SKY FOR YOUR STORMS
Céu partido ao meio no meio da tarde/A BROKEN HALF SKY DURING THE AFTERNOON
Eu sou o céu para as tuas tempestades/I AM THE SKY FOR YOUR STORMS


Deusa Pagã dos relampagos/PAGAN GODDESS OF LIGHTENING
Das chuvas de todo ano dentro de mim/OF EVERY YEAR'S RAIN INSIDE OF ME
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Tempo bom, Tempo ruim/GOOD WEATHER, BAD WEATHER
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Tempo Bom, Tempo Ruim/GOOD WEATHER, BAD WEATHER


Aew didi Aew dindá
Oya matamba te aruê

Rainha dos raios/ QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/ QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/ QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Tempo Bom, tempo ruim
Rainha dos raios/ QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/ QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Rainha dos raios/ QUEEN OF THE BOLTS
Tempo bom, tempo Ruim/ GOOD WEATHER, BAD WEATHER
 
Rita Ribeiro and Maria Bethânia
 
 
I didn't translate the part that is in Youruba.
 

Thursday, May 3

Nut/ Nuit

 
 
Nuit kissing Geb


 
Egyptian goddess of the sky and the heavens. Daughter of Shu and Tefnut, in the Heliopolitan genealogy. Originally just a mother goddess who had numerous children. The hieroglyph of her name is thought to be a womb although a water pot represented the womb. She was typically depicted as a woman with her elongated and naked body arching above Shu and the earth god Geb to form the heavens. Sometimes she appeared in the form of a cow whose body forms the sky and heavens. Nut was the barrier separating the forces of Chaos form the ordered cosmos in this world. Her fingers and toes were believed to touch the four cardinal points or directions. The sun god Ra was to be reborn from her vagina each morning. Nut was also a goddess of the dead, and the Pharaoh was said to enter her body after death, from which he would later be resurrected. Her principal sanctuary was in Heliopolis.

Tuesday, May 1

Yemanja


I was raised closed to the Orishas, respecting and listening to them. Orishas if you don't know are deities: the African Gods and Goddesses. Yemanjá is the first goddess I will write about.
She is the essence of motherhood, the protector of children, fishermen and sailors, and most importantly, she is the sea itself. Gifts for Yemanjá often include images of the goddess, flowers and objects of female vanity (perfume, jewelry, combs, lipsticks, mirrors).
On December 31st, people dress in white and make their way to the seashore to leave her some gifts.Below you can see my sister, daughter and niece offering Yemanjá some flowers.

I was there too, just behind them, taking the picture above.

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Yemanjá's colors, like the Virgin Mary's, are white and blue.. An Orixá's favorite foods are often visually connected with his or her image and chosen colors, Yemanjá's special food are white, or very light in color (there are very few foods that are truly blue). Yemanjá prefers sweet foods as honeyed rice and sweet corn puddings essential parts of her festival on December 1st in Rio de Janeiro and February 2nd in Salvador, both are states in Brazil. She is said to be particularly fond of a sweet coconut-flavored milk jelly called manjar branco . She also enjoys puffed rice, and this snack is everywhere at her festival

Goddesses - Rome

Acca Larentia - the Holy Harlot or High Priestess.
Alemona - Roman Goddess Who guards the fetus.

Angerona - Silent Goddess of Rome. Shown holding a finger to Her sealed mouth. goddess of the Winter Solstice.

Anna Perenna - Ancient Etruscan/Roman Goddess of the Year. She had two faces, Prorsa and Postverta, who looked forward and back in time. She ruled both prophecy of the future and history of the past. Ruler of Human and Vegetative reproduction. Her festival of March 15 was one of merrymaking and promiscuity. A fertility festival celebrating the fruitful Earth.

Antevorta - Goddess of Prophecy.

Aurora - Goddess of Dawn.

Bona Dea - Good Goddess. She was worshipped only by women and only in utter secrecy at rites in early December. Conducted by the Vestal priestesses, these celebrations were held at the home of a high-ranking matron, decorated with vine branches and freely flowing wine in honor of this Goddess of Abundance and Prophecy.

Candelifera - Goddess Who assists at births.

Carmenta - Goddess of writing and the alphabet, Prophecy and Midwifery.

Carna - Goddess of food assimilation and survival.

Carya - pre-hellenic goddess of walnut trees.
Ceres - Goddess of the harvest.


Cotys - Thracian Moon Goddess.

Coventina - Mother of Covens, Celtic Goddess as patroness of healing wells and springs. Diana - Goddess of Wild Creatures. Goddess of hunting, the moon, and wild natural places. Forests and woodlands are sacred to Her, especially oak groves. Strong, athletic Goddess who ran with a pack of dogs.



Feronia - Wolf Mother worshipped by the Sabines before the foundation of Rome.

Flora - Goddess of Spring. The Flourishing One, honored annually on May Day. Lady of Pleasure.

Juno - Great Mother, Queen of Heaven. Roman ruling goddess, Optima Maxima (best and greatest). Protector of all women, from birth to death. She was the soul of all Roman women. Patroness of marriage. Protector of all newborn children. Peacocks are associated with her.


Lara - Shortened form for the Roman Goddess Acca Larentia, Mother of the Lares or household spirits.

Lat - Eponymous, milk-giving Lunar Goddess, Mother of Pre-Roman Latium, Mother of the World Egg and the Sun. From the Moon came water, milk, blood, plant sap and all life-supporting fluids.

Lucina - Goddess of Childbirth.

Luna - Latin Moon Goddess. Creatress Who first drifted alone on the primal ocean of Chaos until She decided to bring orderly forms out of elemental formlessness. aka Mana - ruled archaic Scandinavia, Arabia and central Asia.

Lupa - The Great Wolf Bitch. Sacred Roman She Wolf, nurse of the foundling twins Romulus and Remus. Lupa's temple harlots were lupae, sometimes called Queens or High Priestesses. Her greatest festival was the annual Lupercalia, celebrated in the Grotto of the She-Wolf, with orgiastic rites to insure the year's fertility.

Marica - She gave birth to the god-king Latinus, ancestor of all Latin tribes.

Mensa - Goddess of Measurement, numbers, calendars, calculations, tables and record keeping.

Minerva - Goddess of Wisdom and the Moon. Her totem animal was the owl. Scales of Judgment. Celestial virgin dispensing the fates of men.


Pomona - Apple Mother. Goddess of fruit trees. Roman banquets ended with apples, as an invocation of Her good will. Protectress of orchards and gardens.

Proserpina - Queen the the Underworld. Roman version of Persephone.

Tellus - Earth Goddess. Venus - Goddess of Love, Star of the Sea, Queen of Pleasure, Mother of the Roman people. Goddess of spring. Protectress of Venice.

Vesta - Roman name for Hestia, Goddess of the Hearth and the Altar. Guardian of Innermost things. Rome's oldest Goddess-matriarch. Guardian of flocks and herds. Quartz Her sacred stone.