This means: “There is no God/Orisha like a mother”

They also say “Ìyá Ni Wúrà” which is translated to mean “Mother is gold”.

The forgoing underscores the value and importance Yorubas place on Motherhood.

Láolú Senbanjo has created “Ìyá Ni Wúrà” series that pay homage to the Yorúbá culture/Ife arts. In Artist’s culture, mothers are the essential building block of relationships, identities, and society. Mothers symbolize familial ties, unconditional love and loyalty. The social context of motherhood and the meanings attached to birthing events are a good starting point for appreciating Yoruba constructions of the institution. At the moment of birth, two entities are born - a baby and a mother...

...In every piece, figures of the mother/ mother and child stand against a midnight blue background that warms the canvas. Its expansiveness and depth is symbolic of the figure’s divine femininity. It shows that she exists outside of time and place⁠—in an in-between.

Gold haloes surrounding their heads depict the sacred and divine motherhood and mothers as healers, and as the Yoruba saying goes, “Iya ni wura iyebiye Ti a ko le f’owora” meaning ”Mother is a precious gold that cannot be purchased with money”."

1762

Miguel Cabrera (Mexican, 1695–1768)

This small painting on copper was made for private devotional use by Miguel Cabrera, one of the leading painters in Mexico City. Although the Virgin of Valvanera was venerated in the Rioja region in northern Spain, she was also popular in Mexico in the mid-1760s, and Cabrera gave this representation of the Madonna the features and skin tone of a young Mexican woman.
The original Virgin of Valvanera was a painted wood sculpture said to have been made by Saint Luke and brought to Spain before 700. During the Muslim conquest of Spain, the sculpture was hidden in the trunk of an oak tree. According to legend, the sculpture and a box of relics were rediscovered centuries later by Nuño Oñez, a thief and murderer who repented and became a devout hermit. Oñez and the angel who told him the location of the sculpture can be seen in the background on the right.