Birth of a Goddess
Iyami means my mother in Yoruba. It is also a name tied to a group of powerful women and primal mothers which represent power. The Iyami's symbols are the bird... but also bats... Birds can carry messages from heaven to earth and back. Bats are nocturnal and live in cave/wombs. They can see through the darkness and from different perspectives.. upside down. The Iyami Aje are also known as the witches.... The witches of ancient times were the elder women who instilled divine justice... They were and still are feared because of this same function. Justice is not just in carrying it out, but also having the divine insight through the spiritual eye to perceive the truth about a person or situation. In this way they could identify corruption at its roots..... but also have compassion because of the ability to see the source of the pain that caused the corruption. ~ author unknown
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| Iyami Aje June 27, 2013 |
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