Showing posts with label Ifa Ritual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ifa Ritual. Show all posts
Friday, July 5, 2019

Nigerian smoked catfish / pescado ahumado , Esu offering Lucumi and YTR

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One of Eshu's favorite offerings and a part of almost all Lucumi ceremonies is Pescado Ahumado, smoked fish (Catfish to be specific). It...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

How to greet a priest in the Lucumi / Santeria tradition

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I posted this in response to question on facebook, but realized it should really be stand alone. In the lucumi/santeria community, aleyos al...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Treatise on the role of Orisa priest and devotee in consulting Orisa Oracles

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, A recent exchange made me realize that I've not really seen anyone talk about the role of the Orisa priest in c...
Friday, July 30, 2010

YTR Ifa does NOT believe in "reinitiations", thoughts on Oba accord of miami ...

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, First I will state, the people involved in the initiations that cause all this ruckus do NOT represent all of the ...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Is Pinaldo (cuchillo) necessary?? A question of lucumi theology...

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Aboru Aboye Aboshishe, I recently entered into a conversation about the much talked about and controversial "Pinaldo" or "...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Isese (Isheshe) 2008 festival and interviews

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Aboru Aboye Aboshishe, Here is a wonderul taping of the 2008 Isese day in Nigeria. Some good explanations, including the Yoruba calendar New...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Letra del Año / Odun Ifa what and why?

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Aboru, Aboye, Aboshishe It's the time of year when we see much of the Lucumi world alight with the question, "Do you know what the ...
Monday, December 8, 2008

Oriki Ori

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, As I've mentioned in the past, Oriki are praise poetry used when greeting Orisa, Egun, etc (see my Oriki Orunmila...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The path of initiation in Ifa: Lucumi and Traditional Yoruba

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, After a few conversations including a longer one with my Oluwo in Nigeria, I thought that it would be quite useful to...
Monday, June 9, 2008

Oriki Orunmila

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, Oriki are praise names/poetry created by the yoruba. These are created and chanted to praise the Orisa at anytime, w...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Isomoloruko - Yoruba naming ceremony

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Aboru Aboye Aboshishe, Please take a few minutes to check out this very informative documentary on the Yoruba naming ceremony (Isomoloruko)....
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Discourse on Ifa Symbology and Meaning III: The markings of Odu Ifa.

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Aboru Aboye Aboshishe, In the last installment of this discourse we began to look at the deeper meaning of the Opon Ifa and the markings whi...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Thoughts on Osun in Trad. Yoruba and Lucumi practice

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Aboru Aboye Aboshishe, Someone was posing a question about Osun of lucumi (not Oshun), this connection occurred to me. Osun for traditional ...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Discourse on Ifa Symbology and Meaning II: Place of Ori in Ifa Divination

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Aboru Aboye Aboshishe It has been the subject of many a debate inspired first by the advent of phone psychics and furthered with the mass ap...
Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Treatise on Ebori and Ori: Feeding your Soul

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In today's world of speed and complexity, we often hear people talking about how one should "feed one's soul." Even more o...