As I read Aganju and Yemaja we are told that the children were named those names for the reason that they were “union of heaven and earth” and their best describe the narrator as a union in which they represent the balance that both heaven and earth scale on.while Yemaja the childrens serves as a warning to the reader to not embrace feminity or masculinty for they could suffer consqueneces such as Yemaja in which her own son Orugan embraced traditional masculinity and ravaged his own mother and in the reverse Yemaja in which she was to intimate with her feminity and felt that her unloyalty would cause friction within her relationship.The story layers the meaning behind their names as different planes and tries to keep each of their domains seperate but seem to intrude into one another.The author seemed to layer the story such as their names by describing each of their origins and then interminglining their stories such as Aganju having to be helped by his father as well as Yemaja being unwilling raped by his own son. This is further developed by the narration in which they explain that Yemaja split herself into two and bore the creation of many other minor gods,but leaves the reader to believe that they are own seperate entities.That is not the case though and in reality the reasoning the narrator wants us to come up with is that Yemaja was in reality was a combination of all these minor gods and felt that by dividing herself up it would divide her feminity and masculinity.