This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Recognition is not the whole story of how Lemonade met the Yoruba and Santeria community it drew from. A second, smaller episode followed the album, and it asked a harder question than whether the imagery was respectful: whether the people who actually hold that knowledge were credited for sharing it.
In April 2016, days after Lemonade premiered, Maximiliano Goiz, a Lucumi priest, posted an explanation of Oshun's symbolism on Facebook, connecting her themes of abuse, resilience and justice to what the album was doing with "Hold Up." A year later, when Beyonce's team released a collector's box set with a companion book, its text on Oshun closely mirrored Goiz's own language, without any credit or attribution to him.
Goiz has said he considered how to respond. He did not pursue a claim. His stated reasoning was not that the matter did not matter, but that the outcome he cared most about, more people learning about and respecting his faith, was already happening because of the album's reach, credited or not. He described feeling glad that Beyonce's work was part of a larger movement destigmatizing Afro diasporic religious practice, even while the specific question of his own uncredited words went unresolved by any formal correction.
Recording both halves of this story matters more than settling which one is truer. A tradition being represented respectfully in its imagery and a member of that tradition having his own explanatory words used without credit are not contradictory facts, they happened to the same work at the same time, and an honest account of Lemonade's relationship to Yoruba religion holds both rather than picking the more flattering one.