The Masquerade And Yemoja Celebration in My Community

The Masquerade Celebrations

A masquerade is someone who wears a costume based on his cultural beliefs and ethics to celebrate a historical event relating to that costume's origin. In My community, some people believe the fact that the existence of a particular masquerade was real and that in the early days, they often come out from the forest or bush to celebrate with humans. I remember my mom telling me stories about different types of masquerade and their names.

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In my community each masquerade represents a symbolic celebration, some celebrate fidelity, some on water, some on Fertility, productivity, and a lot more but I am little on this knowledge because I grew up in a Christian home. My dad and mom believed masquerade celebrations were demonic celebrations, looking further I sat down and asked myself some related questions like, “Before colonization brought the bible and Christianity, was it not this masquerade that has been protecting us”, there were a lot of questions that needed an answer in my mind then.

I love the masquerade celebrations because everyone comes together to celebrate this, from different communities and countries. I also love the body art they give their selves. In my community, the masquerade celebrations are celebrated with a lot of singing and dancing, instrumentals were all perfect.

The Masquerade dance is a huge show to watch on that day. The Masquerade will dance from morning till night without getting tired, some people believe they are high on alcoholism or drugs, some believe it is jazz, and some believe the spirit of the masquerade was inside the human body at that moment after he wears the costume.

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The Yemoja Celebrations

Yemoja in Nigeria is associated with mermaids, and in my community, the Yemoja is seen to be the queen of the sea which is also referred to as the mother of the sea. The head of celebrations of this god is in a state called Osun state, but in my community, women worship also celebrate this special day whereby they wear, white and move around with bells on their hands.

During this celebration in my community, some women go as far as to carry pots on their heads and a lot more.

One major reason why I love this culture is because regardless of civilization and modernization they still prefer this act and their women are always dedicated to this celebration because they believe the god of the sea will always grant their Harry desires after this celebration.

The main location in my state where they celebrate this Yemoja day is Ejibo at Oshodi isolo which is not far from my location, so I often go see the celebrations every year.

Several Families come to celebrate this festival. People from different communities come to this festival to pray the the god of the sea known as Yemoja. Yemoja is known to be a god of fertility and wealth. People also Believe the fact that she can control rain.

Although My parent doesn’t support this celebration but I understand this festival to be like a historical event celebration, which is why I admire them. Although I don’t go on an occasional base, because I don’t have any friends that celebrate with them, I love their styles of celebrations.

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