My offerings and appreciation for the diety, Iemanjá, is practiced year round near our waters edge. My shrine is lit each New Years Eve in celebration.
Iemanjá, goddess (or orixá) of the sea, is a central deity in the Candomblé, afro-religion of Brazil. She watches over sailors, fishermen and women, and controls their catches. She is very powerful, and is concerned with every aspect of fertility and family; she is also the protector of children - and always draped in either blue or white.
On each New Years Eve, small, personally related gifts are gathered. These are then released out on the water as an offering, and by acceptance, float out to the sea.
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