Tuesday, April 10, 2007

On finding a godparent/spiritual mentor/Oluwo/Olorisha their role and yours.

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This is of course one of the most important topics that one can tackle in their spiritual quest: who is my mentor and how do I pick them? It...
Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Differences between Traditional Orisha worship and the Lucumi denomination

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Recently the question was posed, how should view the differences between Tradtional African Orisha worship and the Lucumi? To which I answer...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

Ifa in the diaspora, why the rejection?

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I have heard the cries to reject Ifa asking, what need do we have for Ifa? I have seen priest and practitioner turn their backs to Ifa claim...
Monday, March 5, 2007

Ruling or "guardian" Orisha, how is it determined?

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, Clearly this is a difficult question. Let me first note that there is a difference in how initiations work (in Trad ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The essence of Odu

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When the concept of Odu was first explained to me, I was lead to understand that within Odu lies all the knowledge of the world, past, prese...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Old post an analysis of Obi

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Aboru Aboye Aboshishe, I'm in the midst of learning a new way of throwing Obi (the kola nut) but I recently had an exchange on another ...
Friday, January 12, 2007

What is the role of Charity?

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After having spent over 20 years in the Orisha community and just under half of that as a priest, I've come to wonder, what is the role ...