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Yemoja

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Yemoja (Yemọja) is a major water deity from the Yoruba religion. [1]

40 relations: Atlantic slave trade, Benin, Brazil, Cabildo (Cuba), Candomblé, Erinle, Folk Catholicism, French language, Haitian Vodou, Havana, Immaculate Conception, Mary, mother of Jesus, Montevideo, Mother goddess, New Year's Eve, Nigeria, Oba (Orisha), Ogun River, Olokun, Orisha, Osun, Our Lady of Navigators, Parque Rodó, Pelotas, Pidgin, Portuguese language, Praia Grande, Pregnancy, Regla, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Vermelho (neighborhood), Salvador, Bahia, Santería, São Paulo, Spanish language, Tutelary deity, Umbanda, Yoruba language, Yoruba people, Yoruba religion.

Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.

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Benin

Benin (Bénin), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin) and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Cabildo (Cuba)

Cabildos de nación were African ethnic associations created in Cuba in the late 16th century based on the Spanish cofradías (guilds or fraternities) that were organized in Seville for the first time around the 14th century.

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Candomblé

Candomblé (dance in honour of the gods) is an Afro-American religious tradition, practiced mainly in Brazil.

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Erinle

In the Yoruba tradition, Erinle was a great hunter who became an orisha.

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Folk Catholicism

Folk Catholicism is any of various ethnic expressions of Catholicism as practiced in Catholic communities, typically in developing nations.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Haitian Vodou

Haitian Vodou (also written as Vaudou; known commonly as Voodoo, sometimes as Vodun, Vodoun, Vodu, or Vaudoux) is a syncretic religion practiced chiefly in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora.

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Havana

Havana (Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba.

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Immaculate Conception

The Immaculate Conception is the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary free from original sin by virtue of the merits of her son Jesus Christ.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Montevideo

Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.

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Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a goddess who represents, or is a personification of nature, motherhood, fertility, creation, destruction or who embodies the bounty of the Earth.

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New Year's Eve

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve (also known as Old Year's Day or Saint Sylvester's Day in many countries), the last day of the year, is on 31 December which is the seventh day of Christmastide.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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Oba (Orisha)

Oba (known as Obá in Latin America) is the Orisha of the River Oba, whose source lays near Igbon, where her worship originates.

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Ogun River

The Ogun River is a waterway in Nigeria that discharges into the Lagos Lagoon.

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Olokun

Olokun (Yoruba: Olókun, known as Olocún in Latin America) is an orisha.

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Orisha

An orisha (spelled òrìṣà in the Yoruba language, and orichá or orixá in Latin America) is a spirit who reflects one of the subordinate manifestations of the supreme divinity (Olodumare, Olorun, Olofi) in Yoruba religion.

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Osun

Osun (Ozun) is a major Orichá (manifestation of a god) in the Santería religion of the Caribbean(Cuba and Trinidad) brought over by West African slaves during the transatlantic slave trade.

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Our Lady of Navigators

Our Lady of Navigators also known as Our Lady of Seafarers (Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes in Portuguese) is a devotional title given to the Virgin Mary by Roman Catholics.

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Parque Rodó

Parque Rodó is both a barrio (neighbourhood or district) of Montevideo, Uruguay and a park which lies mostly outside the limits of the barrio itself and belongs to Punta Carretas.

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Pelotas

Pelotas is a Brazilian city and municipality (município), the third most populous in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

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Pidgin

A pidgin, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Praia Grande

Praia Grande (is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista. The population is 299,261 (2015 est.) in an area of 147.07 km².

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Pregnancy

Pregnancy, also known as gestation, is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman.

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Regla

Regla is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.

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Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul (lit. Great Southern River) is a state located in the southern region of Brazil.

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Rio Vermelho (neighborhood)

Rio Vermelho (red river) is a neighborhood in the southern zone of Salvador, Bahia.

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Salvador, Bahia

Salvador, also known as São Salvador, Salvador de Bahia, and Salvador da Bahia, is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

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Santería

Santería, also known as Regla de Ocha, La Regla de Ifá, or Lucumí, is an Afro-American religion of Caribbean origin that developed in the Spanish Empire among West African descendants.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Tutelary deity

A tutelary (also tutelar) is a deity or spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation.

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Umbanda

Umbanda is a syncretic Afro-Brazilian religion that blends African traditions with Roman Catholicism, Spiritism, and Indigenous American beliefs.

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Yoruba language

Yoruba (Yor. èdè Yorùbá) is a language spoken in West Africa.

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Yoruba people

The Yoruba people (name spelled also: Ioruba or Joruba;, lit. 'Yoruba lineage'; also known as Àwon omo Yorùbá, lit. 'Children of Yoruba', or simply as the Yoruba) are an ethnic group of southwestern and north-central Nigeria, as well as southern and central Benin.

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Yoruba religion

The Yoruba religion comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practices of the Yoruba people.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemoja

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