Description
Seven is her number, and the seven stars over her head on this note are not decoration. They are a count. It is the same seven that shows up in the seven seas and in the seven-day round of an offering. Yemaya offerings are given in sevens for that reason.
Who Yemaya Is
In the Yoruba tradition carried to Cuba and Brazil, she is an orisha, the mother of the waters: the ocean’s surface, the bright moving part of it, salt and tide and rhythm. She is mother of children, and the one people describe as cool — cool water, cool head, cool hand on a hot situation. Her colors are blue and white. Her number is seven.
The old lists of Yemaya offerings are short and specific: cool water, watermelon, coconut, white flowers, molasses, shells. Someone who already keeps her altar knows what to do with this note: it is one more thing to lay down, in a form that can hold a written name.
What Burning It Means
Offerings to her usually go to water — shells and flowers carried down to the shore and given back. Paper behaves differently on that table. It goes up rather than out. Same handing-over, different direction.
What People Bring to Her
A mother on a ward you cannot get to. A child who is floundering and will not take your help. A house near water that you cannot get back to. A woman recovering from something she does not discuss. Your own need for a calm that has not arrived in months.
Because seven is hers, seven notes make a set that means something: one for each star, one for each day, seven laid down and seven asked for. Write the name on the back of each. One pack covers fourteen such weeks.
The Note Itself
She rises from the waves to the waist, hair loose, a scallop shell held at her chest. Moon, night sky, and moving sea behind her; seven stars circling above her head. The border is diamond geometry with compass and shell motifs. Deep navy and cream, 100 notes, printed both sides, 150 × 65 mm, aged antique finish.
The paper is light and takes pencil or pen without ghosting through. It burns down to a soft grey ash fast enough that you are not standing there nursing a smoldering corner. BANK OF THE ANCESTORS above, SPIRITUAL TENDER below the center, NOT LEGAL TENDER at the bottom edge. Damaged or wrong, we replace or refund and you ship nothing back.
This is a printed paper note with traditional iconography, sold for its artwork and its paper. If you already keep her table, you know what belongs on it.
Sold as a cultural and folk-art curiosity. Printed paper, not currency. No spiritual, financial, or legal outcome is promised or guaranteed.
Others in the series: road opener money, and Sacred Heart petition notes — the whole set.
