Tag: #yorubamythology

  • Happy blog anniversary to me! Can you believe it’s been two years. time flies. Anyway, it’s been several months since Simidele made her deal with oisa of the dead, Olokun, that in exchange for helping to capture Esu, she will keep him company in the Land of the Dead. The bitter currents never leave her…

  • Simidele is one of Yemoja’s Mami Wata, mermaids who collects the souls of the dead tossed from ships and blesses their journeys to the beyond. But Simidele remembers her life as a human, in bits and pieces, she is the only one who doesn’t want to let the water wash away her memories as it…