Honouring Indigenous People everywhere ❤️ Land Back. Reparations. No more stolen sisters. Free Palestine. Save Congo. Free Sudan. 🇸🇩 Save the Rhino 🦏 Save the Earth 🌍 Stand for something or fall for anything. It’s time to stand up and be counted.
I wrote this song is an expression of freedom. A rebellion against the white suprem1st patriarchal system that has been siphoning our energy, life force and people and Mother Earth for hundreds of years.
As a mixed race woman from both African and European descent I call on the power of all my healed and pre colonial ancestors to break the chains of captivity and break the spell of colonization in my own mind and body and community.
And I call upon my é healed ancestors who played a part in harmful extractive ways to come forward and help put things right!
By singing this powerful invocation. Medicine is unleashed that helps all who hear it and all who sing it to WAKE UP and see truth And have the courage to speak up against the injustice, indoctrination, rac1sm, genoc1de, fem1cide and all oppression everywhere. It is speaking truth to power and saying,
“Colon1zer! you have no jurisdiction here. You may not pass.! Give the land back!”
Sing it with me! Let us all collectively be free
Love you 🥰
Maria Lua x
🎶 Lyrics I decolonize me I clap my hands I stamp my feet and now I’m free. You can’t colonize me Cuz in my heart and in my mind I know I’m free.
Cuz you can never erase my story And you can never erase my heart And you can never erase the truth that flows in rivers through my veins No you can never stop the storm that’s flowing.
I decolonize me I clap my hands I stamp my feet and now I’m free. You can’t colonize me Cuz all my Grandmas and my Grandpas are with me!
Cuz you can never erase our stories And you can never erase our hearts And you can never erase the truth that flows in rivers through our veins No you can never stop the storm that’s growing.
🌊 May this song awaken remembrance. May it ignite courage. May it help us all to decolonize — our hearts, our voices, our world.
My most recent song "iemanja" was written as an invocation to request blessings from the generous and beautiful Ocean Goddess (or orixá) called Iemanjá, or Yemaya, or Yemanja.
She is the Goddess who rules the oceans and waters in the Condomblé spiritual tradition of the West African and Afro-Brazilian cultures.
SONG LYRICS:
in Portuguese:
"iemanjá, Rainha to Mar. iemanjá, Rainha do meu Coração"
English translation:
"iemanja, Queen of the Sea. iemanjá, Queen of my Heart"
I first learned about Iemanjá when I visited Brazil for the first time in 2016.
I was in need of deep spiritual healing and the beautiful blue waters and wonderful nature, and amazing people of Bahia, Brazil soothed my soul and brought me so much joy. I returned again in 2018 and again received powerful and beautiful blessings of this land.
When I returned to my home in the UK, I began to take notice of where I was receiving healing and blessings in my life from this beautiful orixá (or Goddess) called Iemanjá. I learned to ask her for what I need, and to ask for her protection, healing and blessings. And offer her trust and love in return. And she has been a clear guiding light and source of inspiration and love for me ever since.
This original video and song are an offering of love and prayer to Iemanjá, and an invocation of her spirit within me, for we are not separate from God, Goddess, the Universe, Life Force, or however you would like to call it. I am surrendering to the depths of her love (the ocean) and she is cleansing my spirit with grace and beauty and delivering me to my destiny through her waterways.
May she continue to remind me that abundance is my birthright, and may she continue to provide me with safe passage towards my destiny.
BACKGROUND:
Here is a little background on exactly who Iemanja is and where she comes from and what spiritual and cultural landscape she is from:
"Brazil’s African ancestors, the Yoruba from Nigeria and Benin, lived by a belief system that held nature as their high power, understanding the necessity to respect and honor the sacred relationship between nature’s elements and human beings. In Brazil, this system developed into the spiritual practice of Candomblé where by orixás or deities, are recognized as divine forces of nature.
Iemanjá is the queen of the oceans and is the mother of all the orixás. She protects all fishermen and ensures them a safe return to her shores. She is calm and nurturing. She dances mimicking the waves of her oceans. Her colors are translucent white and blue or green"
I hope you enjoy the music and video, and I'd love to hear your feedback on my video, or music, or post, or any other experiences in your life that resonated with this post.
Love
Maria Lua
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WHO AM I?
I'm a singer, songwriter, musician, performer, DJ, videographer, refugee & love-inspired fellow inhabitant of this planet! I love to write my music based on my own life experiences and as a way to connect with the vast beautiful cultures of our planet and beyond. A way of telling the story of the humans and animals of our planet.
My family are Portuguese Moçambicans going back 3-4 generations in Moçambique. Moçambique is a large beautiful tropical country on the south east coast of Africa, boarded to the east by the vast and beautiful Indian Ocean, and on the west by Zimbabwe, Zambia & Malawi. My ancestry is mixed consisting of white European Portuguese, Mauritian, indigenous Black Moçambican, and Amazonian Indian (quite far back in the lineage). I grew up in The Kingdom of Lesotho (south east Africa) and London (UK).
The first 2 years of my life were spent on a hippy commune in the United States called The Farm.
