Join us for a special weekend of cultural exchange and learning focused on honoring land and water through deities of feminine aspect from Hawai‘i and from the African diaspora, particularly the Ifá tradition of the Yoruba people of West Africa.

THE FIRST NAME OF GOD IS MOTHER is a beautiful weekend event honoring the sacred connection between Hawaiian and African Goddesses, Their synchronicities and the power of Their collective spiritual energies…and ours! Saturday is not only a sacred conversation about how the ancient spiritual and cultural traditions of West Africa and Hawaiʻi are unmistakably linked, but also how the mandate for Native Hawaiian cultural sovereignty has invoked the attention of our collective Goddesses to help us all with the changes we seek.

On August 18 Priestess Nana Sula Spirit will lead an Orisha song workshop and ocean blessing ceremony in Mākaha, Waiʻanae. Open to all. We will meet at Mākaha Beach Park at noon to caravan over to the location for our workshop and ocean blessing, please be sure to arrive by 12:30. Ceremony begins at 1pm.

Please wear white and you may bring flowers, grapes, watermelon, coconut, coconut candy, nickels or quarters that can be added to our watermelon offering, incense, and anything else you want to offer in connection with Mami Wata/Yemaya.