The Ìyá Nlá deity in Yoruba cosmology is the orisha who is the "Mother of all things, including deities".
It is Iya Nla, an energy, a connection with our own being and with nature.
Iya Nla and the connection with our being
The wisdom and energy of this deity indicates that:
- If we overcome the knowledge of the physical form and connect with the essence of Awon Iya Wa ("our mothers"), maternal concern will allow us to access the Forces in Nature and the wisdom of the ancestors.
- Through the wisdom of the first ancestors, the influences of Iya Nla are understood.
- If man learns to develop a relationship within the harmony of creation and grow in sensitivity to these forces, he will achieve the characteristics of his Irunmole (African ancestors who were elevated to the rank of orishas)
What is the Orisha Iya Nla? The maternal energy that gives life
- Iya Nla is the ancestral discipline that implies the relationship with motherhood and the forces of brotherly love.
- The aspects, paths, manifestations, concepts, attributes, and praise names of the Orisha Iya Nla are related to her ability and authority to:
- Cure,
- create the will or
- destroy it.
For this reason, it is classified within Yoruba beliefs, as the self-sufficient energy that gives life and harmony on earth.
- His cult is based on the worship of Egúngún and Eleiye, the force that gives power and capabilities to intensify cause, effect and change.
- iya nla literally means "Great Mother" in the Yoruba language Ìyá is mother and Nla is big.
- Human beings can relate to each other as children of the same mother thanks to Ìyá Nlá.
- It contains the terrestrial and astral power to cure, curse or bring justice to someone who disrespects women and the sacred process of motherhood.
- Ìyá Nlá is the sacred matrix that gives life, according to the Yoruba cult, the origin of biological mechanisms, manifested in each woman.
- It is an expression of the first Yoruba ancestors that represents the worship of the mysteries of Nature and existence.
- Ìyá Nlá is the primordial spirit of all creation in Yoruba cosmology, considered the source of all existence
His power is so great Ìyá Nlá he is not simply an orisha; It is the primal force of all creation.
- Its religious power refers to how to understand the esoteric world and the paths of the invisible forces that sustain the continuous dynamics of existence within Nature itself.
