The Hair of Oshun
Yemaya felt an immense love for her sister Oshún, as it shows us a legend that Oshun, the beautiful among the beautiful, she was a very rich Queen who boasted of her splendid figure, their jewelry, her rich clothes and her silky long hair. She spent long hours looking in the mirror or seeing her face in the clear waters of the river that bears her name, while she combed and returned to comb long hair reflected from were her great pride.
Her Kingdom was bloody wars of conquests shaft; Oshun had no choice but to flee and leave everything. From that moment, great was her poverty and higher still what happened.
From her magnificent only had one that’s both wash and again wash on the yellow waters of the River, took that color; She had to sell her jewelry to eat; and to make matters worse, from suffering her hair fell out. Oshun, the beautiful among the beautiful, was suddenly single, poor, slave and in the worst misery. But Oshun was not alone. As all the rivers flow in the sea and on its background lives the older sister of Oshun, Yemaya, the owner of all the wealth of the world and the person who loved Oshun greatly on Earth, until she came the tears and complaints from her sister, swept away by the river.
Yemaya departed to try to remedy the situation and what would not be surprise to find her beloved sister destroyed materially and spiritually.
“No llores más, Oshun. Your tears dig into my heart. You were a Queen and Queen will return to be by the grace of Olofi. Today forward to you will belong to all the gold that lies in the depths of the Earth; all corals that are at the bottom of the sea will be yours so you can adorn yourself with them; you will no longer work as slaves but you will sit on a golden throne and you will refresh, as befits the Queens, with a range of Peacock, animal that is mine, but which will become yours from today.
Do and so do not torment you more, look: you see my hair? You remember that she was my pride, which is the same as yours was for you? Here you have it. “Make a wig with her so that no one sees you in that State and can wait with dignity until you grow hair”.
So said Yemaya her beloved sister Oshun, meanwhile, who with tears in her eyes, cut, in sacrifice, her lush hair.
From that day Oshun always defends the daughters of Yemaya, and Yemaya Oshun’s. That is the reason for which neither the daughters of Yemaya, nor those of Oshun should cut much hair.
Yeye O! Yalodde Yeyé Kari! Maferefun Iyami Oshun!
Omío Yemaya Omoloddé! Yemaya Ataramawa! Maferefun Iyami Yemaya!
