In her popular aspect as Yemoja [Iya Nla]is the generous and the dangerous mother:


Iya oloyon oruba

Oni run osiki A b'obo fun ni l'orun bi egbe isu

The pot-breasted mother

With much hair on her private parts;

The owner of a vagina that suffocates like dry yam in the throat.


Babatunde Lawal on Iyan Nla Yoruba Great Mother, in The Gelede Spectacle