ABIBIFAHODIE AFURAKA AFURAITKAIT
Face mask (kple kple) of the Baule (Baoule) people, Cote d’Ivoire. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
she’s so pretty her hair is awesome
- “Not all transformations are gentle. Many times we are forced into change not because we see light at the end of the tunnel, but because we feel the...”
so they were fighting at the GOP convention???
those mayo jars should be ashamed of themselves with all that white on white violence…smh
she’s so cute!
the journey of four Yoruba deities – through their reincarnations in different black women and men – to Brazil, Cuba, the United States and the United Kingdom, during 300 years, from the times of slavery to the present.
It begins at a crossroads in Nigeria where, on their way to a feast, three sisters – the goddesses or orishas Oshun, Oya and Yemonja – meet a trickster – the ubiquitous Eshu or Elegbara – who warns them that they will be taken away as slaves and indicates that he too is going on the journey.
Some Yoruba deities
Olodumare / Olorum: Owner of the heavens and creator of the universe
Orunmila / Ifa: God of wisdom, knowledge and divination
Eshu / Elegbara: The trickster god and keeper of the divine power, ashe
Obatala / Oshala: The white god, moulder of human beings
Oggun: The iron divinity
Shango: The god of thunder and lightning
Oya: Shango’s fierce wife, goddess of the wind and the storms
Oshun: A river goddess, great lover of children, associated with sensuality and beauty
Yemonja: The mother goddess and queen of the ocean
Olofin / Oduduwa: The great ancestor of the Yoruba people by haki_k_shakur http://ift.tt/NEU7Gg
