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What is evil? What constitutes sin? Can we know goodness without knowing bitterness.

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I found my original Altar on Google. Such a sweet find. I am blessed to have her in my life

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Orisha Beads (Elekes)

These are worn by all Voodoos to carry the protection and blessings of their favorite Orisha.

The first one to be worn is of course Eleggua or Legba (black & red). To open the doors, clear the way, remove barriers and obstacles in life.

Other beads shown are Oggun (green and black) . For work opportunities and protection from accidents and in battle.

Obatala (white). For peace and justice in all things.

Yemaya (blue and white). She is the Godess of all mothers and all seas and oceans. She helps protect mothers and children, promotes fertility, abundance and calm your sorrows.

Oxun or Oshun (yellow/amber). Our Lady of Charity, patron-saint of Cuba. She is the mistress of all loves and passion. Brings abundance but remember that abundance is in the sharing!

Chango (red and white). Once king of Africa, Chango promotes virility, good health and vitality. Will protect you from lightning and storms.

Oya (not shown: wine color). The wise woman, she facilitates changes in life and helps you fight your battles.

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Hi there! I was wondering about the average cost of becoming an aborisha and receiving my elekes. I really feel called to specifically Regla de Ocha and one thing that has frightened me about the process is the cost as I'm very low income. I feel as though I'm willing and ready to begin the process of learning further, but this has been a concern of mine. Thank you!

Honestly, this is a legitimate concern to have because the rituals, traditions, and practices of Lucumí (Regla de Ocha) call for a lot of materials and live animals (for ebo), which can sometimes be very costly. The costs are necessary to properly have ceremonies in the traditional way, but unfortunately, it’s not always affordable depending on your situation.

The answer regarding the costs of elekes specifically is that it really depends on the particular ilé! I can give you a general sense of how much you’ll want to save up for, but it’s going to vary a lot depending on different variables. 

The cost for ceremonies usually comes in two parts:

Achedi - A payment in cash that is formally presented and plays a role in the ritual of readings, ceremonies, and initiations. This varies a lot by the ilé. For elekes, the achedi usually ranges somewhere from $200-$500. Also, not everyone always receives a full set of elekes. Usually, if you receive less elekes, then the achedi will also be proportionally less.

Supplies & Materials - For any ceremony, ritual, or initiation, there will almost always be materials that you need to purchase and bring yourself. The act of gathering these supplies is a part of the process, and sometimes it’s even challenging to find (and afford) some of those materials. Exactly what you’ll be asked to bring and how much it will cost depends again on the ilé and on where you are able to purchase the supplies. I’d recommend saving up about $100-$150 for this.

I know this may be discouraging, but I hope it gives a realistic sense of what to anticipate. For some folks, it’s a year or even much longer of working with an ilé before they have enough money saved up and supplies gathered for receiving elekes. Every step of the way takes preparation, and different people are ready at different times!

By the way, you not have to receive elekes to practice Lucumí, you simply have to join an ilé and follow the guidance of the priests and priestesses. Only if elekes are marked for you in divination are they something you would be required to work towards within the tradition.

Ashe, and blessings to you on your journey!

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This is so true!

Everything mirrors you.

The thoughts you bring, the energy you emit, the emotions you embrace…

It all comes about and mirrors you.

From the people you meet, to the wondrous events that come forth, to the luck you encounter…

Life is simply amazing.

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Namaste To All

You must die in order to be reborn (as Pure Spirit), otherwise you will continue to remain a suffering individual. 

Learn the mystical art of consciously dying to your egoic sense of an ‘identity’ (imagined someonehood), so that you can reclaim the unbounded joy of your Nobodiness (no-self, selflessness).   ~Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

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“I judge myself , I punish myself”

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Mother

Yemaya, mistress and Lady of the water and Queen of the sea, essential source of life. Orisha greater Universal mother principle. Considered as the mother of all the Orishas. Also referred to Olokun, Yenbo and Yemú. Olokun is basis of Yemaya, the largest of roads, is the Orisha of procreation.Attributed to Yemayá Iyá Moayé, mother of the world, Ife-Ife, sacred city of the Yoruba creation. Festivities last for several days. The toned songs and dances in their honor are the most beautiful of the Yoruba pantheon. It is said that the Saint was born of the sea. The Earth as we know it was transported on a shell and also the shellcreatures on the tasks that should be performed.There are wood-carved figures depicting her as a beautiful woman pregnant, full of life, with very large breasts. This image also symbolizes fertility that allowed him to be the mother of all the Orishas.Yemaya is a woman beautiful, of medium height, black as coal, with completely curly hair. Mother admirable, brave imposing, witch fearsome, but loving, human and complacent. Attentive and deferential. It is just as Obatala reigns sovereign of a matriarchal Government.She is comprehensive, intelligent and loving with their children and is also an involvement grandmother who lets Oshun in their care. Ibeyis, sons of Oshun and Shango and Oshé Adéu Son of Oshun and Orunmila.She is Orisha of creativity and nature. Sea shells are born and it that is why within the religion is together with his sons the true shell.She is kind and noble with their children, who has great patience. But when not calm anything, gets angry when this happens it causes calamities to the person who offended her.She was wife of Babalu Aye, Aggayú, Orula and Oggun. She likes to hunt, cut grass and handle the machete. She is astute and indomitable. Her punishments are harsh and your anger is terrible, but righteous.Whoever has her crowned should not utter her name without first touching the ground with the fingertips and kissing them traces of powder. All the Orishas are born of Yemaya and therefore participate in the ceremony of the River, where also lives Oshun.“-Yemonya in Life Giving Waters”mixed media on masonite-2006Credit:Ammar Nsoroma

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“Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Pataki of Orisha Oko

The Pataki of Orisha Oko Orisha Oko was a man that tended to his job with the upmost respect. He would work all day on his crops to make sure the crops are growing as said. Once the sun would start to go down and the moon would rise, he would go to bed and leave his brother Korinkoto to tend the crop fields as tomorrow was another long day. One morning Orisha Oko was walking near the seashore planting his crops in a new town to help bring harvest for them.

He noticed a beautiful woman in the waters and was struck by her. He put down his farming tools and walked towards the sea and yelled out to her. She turned around and stayed looking at him. In his eyes, you can notice the look of a similar puppy love he had for the women laying in the sea. The women looked straight at him and told her that her name was Ibu Agana Eni and she was not looking for any type of love affairs of puppy looks because she had a defect that made it impossible not to leave the ocean. Note* Different people say that the woman he saw in the ocean was Olokun and that’s who spoke to him.

Olokun to some including myself is derived as a male orisha, father of the bottom of the ocean floor. It was an aspect of Yemaya that spoke to Orisha Oko. Orisha Oko looked at Agana and told her that he didn’t care about her defeated looks. He told her that he did not care of that. Agana told him ok, and she then told him to make a pact with her. She told him, you never discuss or make fun of my defect or we will separate and never talk again.

Orisha Oko who was yearning for love none the less a wife agreed to the pact. Ibu Agana agreed and she started to come to the waters edge. Now Agana had a beautiful face but her body was somewhat deformed. She had one leg bigger than the other, multiple scars and blisters near her womb area and she had one breast. Orisha Oko seeing this paid no attention to it. Olofi seeing all of this from the heavens came down and told Orisha Oko that he did not want any disrespect towards Agana. He told Orisha Oko that he made a castle for Agana deep in the ocean so she wouldn’t be ridiculed by anyone for her defects. Orisha Oko gave Olofi his word that he will never disrespect Ibu Agana and he will always cherish her.

Olofi then told the both that they needed to be married. Years passed on and Orisha Oko and Ibu Agana lived happily together. Due to the fact that Orisha Oko’s harvest was so abundant, he decided to sell his crops. So Orisha Oko would go and collect the crops and the fruits that he grew and took them to his wife where she would sell them to the people. Every day the townspeople would come and purchase their harvest from Agana at the seashore. She always was dressed to hide her defects from the world so they would not make fun of her. One day some townsmen came to the seashore to buy some fruits from Agana. They stayed staring at the orisha and were whispering under their breath to one another.

Ibu Agana was feeling very reluctant and asked them what were they discussing. They told her that they came because there was a man who plowed the fields has said that there is a woman by the seashore who is totally deformed. Agana got such in a rage that she turned into a ghostly figure. You could see the hurt and dismay of her face. She left the sea and went to where Orisha Oko was at. When Orisha Oko saw her approaching him, he was wondering why his wife was coming to him at such a fast pace and in such a rage. Agana told him of the hurt and the promise he broke to her and she stated that as while the world is the world, I will always detest you and we will live in separate places. And you will live far from me and you and I will go upon your lands whenever I feel like it.

I will never talk to you and everyone must pay homage to me and with that I will save my children who honor me. I will assign Elegua who is the guardian of Olofi’s house, to receive the souls of the children of the earth as well as yourself. I curse you that your own weapons will turn against you, your animals will also turn against you. The lands that you fertilize will become bad soil. Your children will no longer be your children, you will never see the fruit of your harvest and man will always step on your grounds. She then turned around and disappeared into the ocean.

Olofi who was very upset at Orisha Oko and he descended to where he was at and told him with a strong voice that upon what Agana told him, his harvest will always shrivel and die. The box that he uses to help with his harvest will die of thirst, and the land will become sour. Orisha Oko upset and shamed didn’t know where to turn his head as he has just be scolded by the great Olofi. He went and collected fruits, a pig, and harvest and made a haste to the seashore. He constructed a makeshift boat and sailed out into the sea.

The oceans water became very rocky as Agana was still in such a rage. There Orisha Oko made a sacrifice to Agana and told Elegua to take the sacrifice to her. He returned to land and picked up all the scraps from the marketplace with 2 roosters and made a sacrifice to Elegua at the well. He left there and sacrificed one of the ox’s to Olofi in forgiveness. By him doing these ebbos or offerings, he was able to diminish the epidemic that was coming upon the land from Agana.

Olofi spoke to him from the heavens and told Orisha Oko that he was pleased with the sacrifice and he saw his serenity of what he did and from that day forth Orisha Oko will have his harvest and be the orisha of ii and his lands will always live very far from the ocean. This is where love was born and then died.

She turned around and stayed looking at him. In his eyes, you can notice the look of a similar puppy love he had for the women laying in the sea. The women looked straight at him and told her that her name was Ibu Agana Eni and she was not looking for any type of love affairs of puppy looks because she had a defect that made it impossible not to leave the ocean. Note* Different people say that the woman he saw in the ocean was Olokun and that’s who spoke to him.

Olokun to some including myself is derived as a male orisha, father of the bottom of the ocean floor. It was an aspect of Yemaya that spoke to Orisha Oko. Orisha Oko looked at Agana and told her that he didn’t care about her defeated looks. He told her that he did not care of that. Agana told him ok, and she then told him to make a pact with her. She told him, you never discuss or make fun of my defect or we will separate and never talk again. Orisha Oko who was yearning for love none the less a wife agreed to the pact.

Ibu Agana agreed and she started to come to the waters edge. Now Agana had a beautiful face but her body was somewhat deformed. She had one leg bigger than the other, multiple scars and blisters near her womb area and she had one breast. Orisha Oko seeing this paid no attention to it. Olofi seeing all of this from the heavens came down and told Orisha Oko that he did not want any disrespect towards Agana. He told Orisha Oko that he made a castle for Agana deep in the ocean so she wouldn’t be ridiculed by anyone for her defects.

Orisha Oko gave Olofi his word that he will never disrespect Ibu Agana and he will always cherish her. Olofi then told the both that they needed to be married. Years passed on and Orisha Oko and Ibu Agana lived happily together. Due to the fact that Orisha Oko’s harvest was so abundant, he decided to sell his crops. So Orisha Oko would go and collect the crops and the fruits that he grew and took them to his wife where she would sell them to the people. Every day the townspeople would come and purchase their harvest from Agana at the seashore. She always was dressed to hide her defects from the world so they would not make fun of her. One day some townsmen came to the seashore to buy some fruits from Agana. They stayed staring at the orisha and were whispering under their breath to one another.

Ibu Agana was feeling very reluctant and asked them what were they discussing. They told her that they came because there was a man who plowed the fields has said that there is a woman by the seashore who is totally deformed. Agana got such in a rage that she turned into a ghostly figure. You could see the hurt and dismay of her face. She left the sea and went to where Orisha Oko was at. When Orisha Oko saw her approaching him, he was wondering why his wife was coming to him at such a fast pace and in such a rage. Agana told him of the hurt and the promise he broke to her and she stated that as while the world is the world, I will always detest you and we will live in separate places.

And you will live far from me and you and I will go upon your lands whenever I feel like it. I will never talk to you and everyone must pay homage to me and with that, I will save my children who honor me. I will assign Elegua who is the guardian of Olofi’s house, to receive the souls of the children of the earth as well as yourself. I curse you that your own weapons will turn against you, your animals will also turn against you. The lands that you fertilize will become bad soil.

Your children will no longer be your children, you will never see the fruit of your harvest and man will always step on your grounds. She then turned around and disappeared into the ocean. Olofi who was very upset at Orisha Oko and he descended to where he was at and told him with a strong voice that upon what Agana told him, his harvest will always shrivel and die. The box that he uses to help with his harvest will die of thirst, and the land will become sour. Orisha Oko upset and shamed didn’t know where to turn his head as he has just be scolded by the great Olofi. He went and collected fruits, a pig, and harvest and made a haste to the seashore.

He constructed a makeshift boat and sailed out into the sea. The oceans water became very rocky as Agana was still in such a rage. There Orisha Oko made a sacrifice to Agana and told Elegua to take the sacrifice to her. He returned to land and picked up all the scraps from the marketplace with 2 roosters and made a sacrifice to Elegua at the well. He left there and sacrificed one of the ox’s to Olofi in forgiveness. By him doing these ebbos or offerings, he was able to diminish the epidemic that was coming upon the land from Agana.

Olofi spoke to him from the heavens and told Orisha Oko that he was pleased with the sacrifice and he saw his serenity of what he did and from that day forth Orisha Oko will have his harvest and be the orisha of ii and his lands will always live very far from the ocean. This is where love was born and then died.

Source: Myyoruba

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Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

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I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

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I see me...

For better or worse...

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“May our universal mother Yemaya/Yemoja bestow upon us Ase, Blessings”.

O My Yemaya Mother Of The World Sea Goddess Take away the bad and Throw it into the sea O My Yemaya Bless us, Protect us, and Deliver us from evil. O Mio Yemaya. Ashé, By: Iya Olawo Che Image/Artist: Unknown Ile Ashe Page