Facebook user Tasha Robinson presented a mind-blowing explanation for Beyoncé's look during the "Hold Up" video; Queen Bey is "portraying Oshun, a Yoruba Orisha," she wrote. "Sensual, sexual, beautiful Goddess [and] deity who is a healer, gives life, growth, luxury, change and prosperity. That was the message of Lemonade. Love, change and prosperity."
The Yoruba people are an ethnic group from southwestern Nigeria and Benin dating back to the 15th century. They believe in a pantheon of 401 gods known as the Orisha, which includes the love goddess Oshun. She is known to be beautiful and benevolent, a "bringer of song, music, and dance," and a governess of "love and sweet waters." Sweet waters . . . like lemonade.
