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Yemayá Spiritual Salt
Spanish name: Sal Espiritual Yemayá
For honoring Yemayá, mother of the sea, in the home
- Item
- SL-012
- Size
- 1.5 oz (42 g) bag
- Intention
- Saints & Devotion, Peace & Home
Note. For spiritual use and sold as a curio and novelty only. No specific result is claimed or guaranteed.
Ingredients: Sea Salt, Lavender, Fragrance, FD&C Blue No. 1.
Colored and scented; not a food. Keep out of reach of children. Keep dry.
About this salt
Yemayá is the orisha of the sea, honored in Santería as mother of all. People come to her about what a mother cares for: the children, the family, a home that needs calm, a loved one crossing the water. In Cuba she is honored together with the Virgin of Regla, on September 7.
Salt comes from the sea, so it has always been close to her. At home, many keep a small dish of it on her altar, on a clean blue and white cloth, beside her glass of water and her seashells. A little goes at the front door and in the corners of the house. Her number is seven, so some sprinkle seven pinches across the doorway.
Change the salt every Saturday, when you change her water, and sweep the old salt out the front door. Some devotees carry it to the sea with white flowers, as they do with her other offerings. Her colors are blue and white. For anything beyond a candle and her salt at home, people go to a santero or santera, a priest of Santería.
Ways to use
- On her altar
- Set a small dish of salt beside her glass of water and her seashells, on a clean blue and white cloth.
- Seven at the door
- Sprinkle seven pinches across the front door, her number, and greet her as you do.
- The corners of the house
- Put a little in the corners of the house when the family needs calm, and sweep it out after a week.
- Back to the sea
- On Saturday, gather the old salt and take it to the sea with white flowers, or sweep it out the front door.
Goes with
Put seven drops of Yemayá oil on a blue or white candle beside the dish of salt. Oshún, the orisha of the rivers, is often honored next to her, and Peace at Home is for the house itself.
