From the House of Yemanja: The Goddess Heritage of Black Women.
The Spiritual Conscious Creator / Activist Library
By Sabrina Sojourner ❤ the title is taken from a poem by Audre Lorde, “From the house of Yemanja”, in The Black Unicorn (New york:W.W. Norton & Co.,1978).
It is difficult, if not impossible, to be raised in the United States without having Christian value judgments invade one’s life. Until recent times, it was doubly hard for Black Americans to escape this intrusion because of the intrinsic political and social, as well as religious, role the Black church has played in our community. It was only as late as my parent’s generation that countless Black women and men began leaving the church, no longer believing in the salvation offered by a white god and savior. Now many women of my own generation are discovering that God is not only not white, but she also was never been considered male until relatively recently!
RECLAIMING OUR SPIRITUAL MOTHER
Seboulisa mother goddess with one breast
eaten away by worms of sorrow and loss
see me now
your severed daughter
laughing our name into echo
