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Brazil. Day of Yemanja

February 6, 2019
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Every year on February 2, in the Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahia takes place the festival of the Yemanja, the Goddess of the Ocean.
Faithful carry a boat out to sea, filled with offerings to Yemanja.
Devotees traditionally mark the day dressed in white.
Yemanja wears a dress with seven skirts that represent the seven seas.
A young lady offers flowers as a tribute to Yemanja.
Originally Yemanja was a river goddess of the Yoruba in Nigeria. African slaves brought Yemanja to the New World, where she became the Goddess of the Ocean.
Yemanja is one of the 401 so-called Orishas.
People make offerings to Yemanja in order to thank her for past favours and to ask for future favours.
Faithful carry offerings at a ceremony honoring Yemanja.
A worshiper tosses flowers into the ocean during a ceremony honoring Yemanj.
Yemanja devotee praying at the beach.
Yemanja is the patron of fishermen, sailors and shipwreck survivors.
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