Yemonja: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Additional information about Yemonja may be found in John Mason, Olóòkun: Owner of Rivers and Seas (1996), and Adura Orisa: Prayers for Selected Heads (2002); John Mason and Gary Edwards, Black Gods: Òrìsà Studies in the New World, rev. 4th ed. (1998); Eugenio Matibag, Afro-Cuban Religious Experience: Cultural Reflections in Narrative (1996); Robert Farris Thompson, Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas (1993); and Lloyd Weaver and Olurunmi Egbelade, Maternal Divinity, Yemonja: Tranquil Sea, Turbulent Tides (1999).

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