right|thumb|300px|Candomblé|Candomblean Iyalorishás [[Olga de Alaketu and Stella de Oxóssi with Gilberto Gil, a Brazilian singer and former Minister of Culture.]]
right|thumb|300px|Candomblé|Candomblean Iyalorishás [[Olga de Alaketu and Stella de Oxóssi with Gilberto Gil, a Brazilian singer and former Minister of Culture.]]
A mãe-de-santo or mãe de santo (, plural mães de santo ) is a priestess of Candomblé, Umbanda and Quimbanda, the Afro-Brazilian religions. Those Portuguese words mean literally "saint's mother", a calque of the Yoruba word iyalorisha, a title given to female leaders of the Yoruba religion. Iya means "mother", and the contraction ''l'orisha means "of orisha", adapted into Portuguese as "of saint" due to the traditionally Catholic-centric culture that surrounds that language.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).