Because Yemaya's cult followed slaves from Africa, she is known by several names. Some of them are the Mother of Pisces, the Mother of the Ocean, the Mother of All, the Holy Queen of the Sea, Mama Watta, the Mother of Dreams and Secrets, Stella Maris meaning star of the sea, Yeye Omo Eja, Iamanga , Ymoga, Balianne, Yemanja, Imanje and Yemanja Afodo. All the different names seem to connect it to water. In Africa she is the Yoruba Orisha, meaning Goddess of the living ocean. According to what I've read, she's the reason we have the water we do. The Ogun River is particularly sacred to her. Moving on to aspects of life, Yemaya is the Goddess of the Ocean and since life is believed to have emerged from the ocean, Yemaya is the creator of life. When you look more closely at the depth of Yemaya's waters, we see that She controls the surface. Most life in the ocean is near the surface. Not all ocean living things need to be near the surface, but the most memorable animals that come to mind need to come to the surface for air. Even if t...