Dear wanderers at the edge of the river and sea,
"Even the gentlest river once broke away from the sea."
So whisper the old ones, as they dip a hand into the cool current of Ọ̀ṣun’s sacred waters.
In the beginning, the world was not divided into rivers and oceans. All water — all emotion, all memory, all mystery — lived within Yemanjá. She was the deep blu…
