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This chant celebrates the joining of the river to the Sea |
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and to the Goddess of the Ocean. |
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At the same time, it is a love-song of the soul to God, |
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for the river flows through each soul. |
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"Yemaya is the gush of the Spring. |
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The gush of the Spring is Yemaya. |
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The Mother of the Children of Fishes is the Owner of Rivers. |
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The Owner of Rivers is the Mother of the Children of Fishes." |
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The river seeks the Sea as the soul seeks |
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the Source from which it came. |
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It rushes down mountain pathways, |
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into tumbling streams which become rivers, |
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always flowing toward the One. |
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It does not wait, it does not tarry, |
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it finds its way past boulders and rocks, |
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through Spring's plenty and Winter's scarcity, |
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until it reaches the outlet to the Sea. |
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This Sea is its home. |
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The home of the soul. |
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The home of the heart. |
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The home of one's being. |
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All of life depneds on the Sea. |
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For the Sea is the great Mother, |
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and all of life lives within Her. |
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The aching dryness of parched land, |
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the cold frozenness of inhospitable passages - |
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none can stop the forward motion of the River, |
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for its destiny is the Ocean, which is both |
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its beginning and its end. |