Rebecca Wells, actress, playwright, and author of two national bestsellers, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere, was born in Central Louisiana, where her family has resided since 1795. She grew up on a working plantation and attended the school of Southern Ladyhood and Roman Catholicism. An imaginative storyteller and avid reader since childhood, Wells suspected early on that her goals, ambitions, and expectations were much different than those of most traditional southern women. She saw the world as one giant colorful package just waiting to be unwrapped, and was determined to learn and experience as much as she could as quickly as possible.

From http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/l/lady_marmalade_labelle.html

Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Here
Mocca chocalata Ya Ya
Creole Lady Marmalade

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The "Y"; ya-ya; yoni; yoni of your owni

From http://askelm.com/doctrine/d980928.htm ----

The artists idealize the shape of the external genitalia by making what is called an "almond shaped" design that is called in symbolic language a Mandorla (which means "like an almond"). The same shape of genitalia (the Mandorla) was found in the majority of the Sheila-Na-Gigs that were carved on the top of doorways (usually at the pinnacle of a pointed or lancet arch) in the early churches and on some Cathedrals. This symbol of the Mandorla is a very much used in Christian art. Most of us have seen it at one time or another, but most people have not the slightest idea what it signifies. It is a woman's vulva. The illustration below shows how Barbara G. Walker in her excellent book "The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets" describes this well known symbol called the Mandorla.

You will often see Mary and/or the supposed "Jesus" within a glorified Mandorla symbol. Note the following examples

June 12, 2002 shc759