Iemanjá

One can ask Iemanjá for favors and throw flowers for her into the
ocean. When I arrived this morning, there was an enormous line to put
one's flowers in a basket to be rowed out in a boat into the bay and
dropped where they were sure to stay. Many people just throw them into
the water from shore, and the sand is littered with wishes for several
weeks. It's also littered with trash every day of the year.