Orixá of the springs, of the horizon and of clairvoyance
Ewá (also written as Euá or Yewá) is the orixá (orisha) of the springs, the horizon and clairvoyance, worshipped in Ketu and Jeje candomblé, where she is a vodun. She gives her name to a river between Nigeria and Benin, shares the snake with Oxumarê and, in academic sources, also appears linked to the passage of the dead.
Greeting
Ri Ro, Ewá!
Colors
Red and yellow (Prandi, Ketu candomblé); translucent red, coral and pink in other houses
Day of the week
Saturday (December 13, Saint Lucy's day, in popular devotion)
Element
Springs, headwaters and streams, the mist and the horizon
Syncretism
Saint Luzia (Santa Lúcia in Prandi), no equivalence between the two
Archetype
To the one who sees far and chooses to live alone, guarding what others do not see
Domains of Ewá
Clairvoyance, the horizon where the sky meets the earth, the mist, the springs, and the passage between life and death
In an itã gathered by Reginaldo Prandi, Ewá is the daughter of Nanã (Nana Buruku) and is the horizon, pulling the sun with her harpoon at the end of the day. She did not want to marry, and when Nanã insisted, she asked for help from her brother Oxumarê, who hid her in the place where the rainbow ends, behind the horizon. In other itãs she is the daughter of Obatalá, who gives her the kingdom of the dead.
Lady of Clairvoyance, of Mist, of Purity and of Sharp Intuition
Ri Ro, Ewá! Firm your prayer for Ewá on the virtual altar: choose 7 days or stick, write the prayer request and follow the flame through the link you receive.
7 days for R$ 1,00 · stick for R$ 0,50
Children of Ewá are rare, and the rule that only women can be initiated for her circulates in many houses, but it is contested by ialorixás who claim to have initiated men. There is no personality profile in academic sources: what circulates is terreiro talk.
Extrema, Minas Gerais · South of Minas
Red candles and bead necklaces in the colors indicated by the house for Ewá.
Mãe Senhora de Ewá, Elza Bahia de Araújo, died at 104 years old in Salvador. Raised in Gantois and initiated for Ewá by Mãe Menininha in 1950, she led the Omí Ewá.
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Children of Ewá are rare: few houses initiate for her. Can a man be of Ewá? What the sources say about temperament and what has no record here.
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Are Oxumaré (Oshumare) and Ewá siblings, husband and wife or twins? Prandi's itãs give two answers in the same book, and the ialorixás give others. See who says what.
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