Oshun achieves to Ogun to left the Jungle (Story/Folk)

OSHUN ACHIEVES TO REMOVE OGGUN DEL MONTE

It is due to the beauty and brightness of the youth of Oshún that Ogún left the jungle where he lived alone with no company other than that of his dogs. Ogun was hiding from men and only saw Oshosi, the god of hunting, owner of wild animals.

Ogun had not been known for a long time. There was a hungry cat looking to eat, he heard the rumor of a conversation and came to listen. Oshosi told Ogun that there was an old man in the village who had claimed to be their father. Ogun replied that I do not have a father, so Oshosi answered me, but I will go to see the old man. I will touch the door and if he answers Oshosi Ode kills, then really that old man is my father. If he does not answer me like that, he is not my father and I kill him. Ogun said I will also go to see him and if Ogun Obaniré does not tell me, I'll kill him.

With these plans, the two orishas separated. The cat, finding that he had eaten and listened to all this, took a nap and went to tell Baba (Olofi) everything he had heard.

One day Oshosi knocks on Olofi's door. Oshosi Ode Mata shouted the old. The Babami blessing. Three days later, Ogun arrived at the Olofi's doors and knocks on his door, Ogun Obaniré answered the old man. The Babami blessing. The old man told Ogun you should stay here with me, and Ogun answered no. Someday I will come to see it but I am going back to the mountain now.

Oshosi went to visit the old man very often but Ogun did not go. There was much needed in the town. What will be our people without irons? What will the world be if Ogun does not provide his tools? Olofi complained. Ogun had no one to take him out of the forest. Olofi got tired of sending him to look. Elegua did not manage to convince him. The male Orisha offered him large sums of money in exchange for his access to leave the mountain and the female Orishas were going to tempt him but wild and distrustful Ogun went deeper into the forest.

Oshún said I will take Ogun from the mountain and bring him to town. He filled a cup of honey (oñí), tied five yellow handkerchiefs around his waist and, sounding his five copper handcuffs, reached Ogun, who, when he saw her, went to hide. Oshún sang and sang, his voice was so sweet that Ogun stood still listening to her. He risked poking his head and Oshun quickly smeared him on his lips. Oshún continues singing and Ogún comes out of hiding.

Oshún continued singing and dancing and offering him, honey. Ogun was licked with delight. So Oshún was for five days singing, dancing, smearing honey on Ogun's lips until this finally he goes out after her in love. The honey from Oshún tames and sweetens Ogun. He takes him out of the jungle and takes him to the Ile de Olorun, which binds Ogún with a chain and holds him captive in the village.

All the Orishas celebrated the event with a big party.

Yemaya brings salt, Oshosi the animals, Orishaoko the food, Oshún the water from its source, Ogun himself his machete, the cauldron, and the stove and Shangó the coals of fire.

Thus did Oshun achieve the impossible for the good of the people. Oshún with her "Angel" and honey delights and sweetens anyone.

The moon is called abaMeta Ogunderin (OgundaWorin)

Òrúnmìlà said that the moon has set in epe

I said that the moon has been put on epe.

He said that if the moon had set in epe we should show both our front and back to it, because both the front and the back of our lives will be good

Òrúnmìlà began to sing the ifá song that counts;

The Moon has become oOgunderin (Ogunda Oworin)

The full moon is called "Àbáméta"

in the Oduduwa language, it is a day of eledumare request.

"Clearly the moon has been fixed

It was established for us to be rich.

Clearly the moon has been fixed

It was established so that we have a good wife, husband, children

Clearly the moon has been fixed

It was established so that we have all the kindness

Clearly the moon has set."

Yoruba version:

Òrúnmìlà ni osù le lépè

Iye owo

Òrúnmìlà ni ti osù bati le lépè ki won fi iwaju han ki won si fi ey have

Oni atiwaju ateyin ayé wa ni yio dara

Òrúnmìlà wa fiyere ohun bonu wípé:

Osù mòlé or

Nibi emi o lọ

Osù le ire

O le ka laje

Nibi emi o lọ

Osù le ire

O le ka laya, oko, omo, ile

Nibi emi o lọ

Osù le ire

O le ka nire gbogbo

Nibi emi o lọ

Osù le ire. 

Santeria, Palo Mayombe & Bantu in America.

The slave trade towards America was a millionaire business, the Spanish and Portuguese traffickers (that is why the expression "Goes with a license", meaning license as permission in Portuguese) took into account the physical conditions of its human merchandise. , then sent to America slaves between 14 and 19 years... Which meant that priests with little experience in Afro-descendant cults will arrive on our lands... No slave owner dared to take the risk for reasons that there was a slave law He said: "Slaves who are old or ill cannot work, should be fed by their owners and can not be given freedom" So how did Santeria or Palo Monte arrive?

In several books that I have investigated and conversations... The Bantues were the first to transmit through signatures what we know as their knowledge with their partners, because they had a muzzle and was forbidden to communicate ... and through strokes they did on the ground (there were no cement floors) with their fingers communicated if there was any dead (skull, if there was a Spaniard with the cross and the family with the circle) then this became an encrypted method of communication that allowed rebellions of the blacks.

The Bantues from very small were hunters and this technique worked not to give away the position with respect to some animal, from as soon as 6 years were initiated in the hunting, which implied to imitate and observe hunting techniques, herbal medicine and use of the same for the poisoning of the dams. This training could last for years but it was learning by doing, so it implies that those who came to America had a basic knowledge or were in training period.

In the same way, it happened with the Yorubas who at that young age were brought as slaves and had little more than the knowledge of those divinatory arts.

As the years passed and these slaves had children, they reached agreements to teach the Yoruba el Palo and the Bantu the Osha, so that if they were sold, the remaining one could teach their culture to the children of the absent one.

Nsala Malekum

Spirits evolve.

Spirits must evolve, as we do in the material world. You can help your spiritual guide to evolve. This is done through prayers and lighting ceremonies. Apart from that, avoid feeding a spirit with blood, food, alcoholic beverages, body fluids or anything other than a simple glass of water and a candle.

Providing physical or energy links to a spirit is but a recipe for disaster, especially if it is a spirit that has the skills to mask your intentions for you and other mediums.

Your role as a spiritualist is to provide light and elevation through prayer, not to provide a heterogeneous mix of energy to help the spirit acquire strength in the material realm.

The spirits are not here for your entertainment to manifest in the material world, to see you well as a physical medium and to be able to brag to your friends that you can be a physical # medium. It is important never to deviate from humility and charity.

That you will not forget

Be Pagan

Just imagine that all our deepest traditions are the branches of a giant tree that rises to the top, even surpassing the clouds, while others are busy praying to the tree, we are climbing, sleeping and eating this tree that was sown by previous gods, oldest than our own gods many millennia ago, in the end we probably are all going up the same path from a different branch, looking for light, wisdom and purpose.

Elhoim Leafar

Feeding snakes against the cult of St. Patrick by pagans.

Feeding snakes against the cult of St. Patrick by pagans.

I did not celebrate St. Patrick's Day for three different reasons, first, I'm not Irish, second, I'm not American, I'm Turkish-Hispanic, and third, I come from a polytheist family, but my family, especially my grandmother and my  mother raised me with enormous respect for the pagan community, she said, it does not matter if they are pagans, neopagans, wiccans, druids, it does not matter even if they preach a new religion or are part of some sect founded in the next thirty years, while they  venerate the ancient gods, those gods before Christianity, are our brothers, even when many of them throw stones at us, they are our brothers and we must remain united above all.

Saint Patrick, this supposed Saint is Ireland, whose stories I have read countless times and all seem to be in complete disagreement with each other, not to mention that many of these stories only take the old legends of Irish folklore and turn them into "miracles" around  to the Saint  He was not like they want to paint now all these "pagan missionaries" of the New Age, a "savior and pacifist pattern", was a Christian priest who enlisted in the ranks of the church to not have to be part of the family business during a  terrible economic period where the Roman Empire was taking over all foreign businesses.

Everyone says that he released Ireland from the Serpents, the truth is that the island of Ireland unlike the islands of Scotland and England was never connected to the same tectonic plate, there was no terrestrial communication between one island and another, and it is about  A cold island, there has been no historical or scientific evidence of snakes in Ireland for 15Mil years until our then.  There is no other joke about it, there simply were no snakes when he arrived on the island.

The serpent was a symbol of pagan paganism in Ireland, paganism in Ireland fell in the fifth century when he lived this character, this "pseudo Saint" Catholic.  The phrase "St. Patrick freed Ireland from the snakes" is extracted from a few letters that he left written where he communicated with the Church affirming that there were no pagans on the island, and in fact, if you check all the Catholic writings that you can find  In any library or Museum of your Country, you can verify that pagans were always represented with the image of a snake, allusion to the Jewish cult where 'Samael' the snake that was possessed by Lilith (the first Woman before Eve) tempted Adam  and Eve to eat the apple of the tree of knowledge, which opened their eyes and because of that, Yahweh condemned 'Samael' and took him out of the Garden of Eden condemning him to crawl for eternity so that he could never see his face in eternity.

If you want to have fun and go out with your friends dressed in green and disguised as an elf, you have another 364 days to do it, but not St. Patrick's Day, which should be considered a day of mourning for the pagan community, are the same as  they fill their social networks with those empowerment memes under the same motto of "we are the children of those witches that you could not burn at the stake", they use that day to become pacific saints and pagan missionaries affirming "Saint Patrick was never against  the pagans "and" he is not to blame for what happened ", but I think the opposite, when you see that a minority group is being discriminated against and you become part of the discriminating group, you become part of the problem, and  even worse, as in this case, on the side murdered thousands of witches and pagans in the following ages.

The truth behind 'the great conversion' of the emerald island 'Ireland' and it is not necessary to read much about it since all the history books have taught us the same thing, between the 4th century and the 7th century of our era, is that  those who were not converted to Christianity and did not accept to be baptized, were expelled from the island, burned alive, tortured or imprisoned, as was the case with many Celtic pagans and their druids.

When you celebrate Saint Patrick's Day you are ignoring and celebrating the tombs of the pagans and witches who for centuries have been burned, hanged, or (as it happened for centuries in South America) drowned in the sea where they were thrown with cloth bags full of  stones to sink their bodies on the seabed.

Now many pagans, and from my point of view are correct, celebrate the day of the Serpent on the same day to protest, and the truth, my support is with them, with those who have not sold their beliefs to be part  of the 'popular cult', is not that this in favor of keeping the hated towards the Catholic Church, but I am in favor of not forgetting and making fun of the past in this way so sickly and ridiculous.

The pagans and "neopagans" celebrating this day look as absurd as the new sects of neo-Nazis who deny the holocaust to victimize the others.

Here I have left you the reasons why you did not celebrate this day, because as my mother taught me 'forgive if you want to do it, but never forget'.

So please, if you consider yourself pagan, not famous this day.

Activate the magical powers of rue incense.

Activate the magical powers of rue incense.

Surely you already know the use of incense to balance the energies.

The incense of rue, for example, has numerous healing properties that grant power to ward off negative energies.

The rue is a miraculous plant used as an incense and amulet, or even to prepare baths, oils, perfumes, and essences to ensure that positive energies always accompany us.

The incense of rue has innumerable magical benefits. It is used to form a protective shield around us, it has the power to nullify the 'evil eye' and create a sacred ritual space in which to govern peace.

To activate your powers in the house, classroom or office, proceed to close all windows. At the center of the chosen site place the rue incense and let it burn until the end, let the site imbue entirely with the fragrance to the last of its corners, once completed, proceed to open the doors and windows to enter new energies
The smoke of rue incense will cleanse and purify all the bad energies in the environment, attracts money and abundance, and in this way also cleans all the corners and furniture of the place, as well as the aura of all those who are there. present.

If you feel that you are facing a terrible economic situation, you are in the middle of a huge debt to pay or someone owes you money, you can combine rue incense with sandalwood and rosemary, to balance the energy of the money entirely in your favor.

If there are curses or spells, rue incense is an excellent ally to contribute positive energies. If we feel that we are the target of constant jealousy, the solution may include the use of rue incense in the environment in which we believe we are being affected. Also, rue incense can help combat episodes of insomnia. And allow people to relax and get to sleep without difficulties.

In order to attract good luck and have prosperity in business, incense of rue is also used in commercial establishments. The results can be magnificent if they are combined with other procedures, such as spiritual baths.

Please stop, we do not need more keyboard activists claiming for social causes from their phone.

In my opinion we don't need more 'white trash heroes' saving us, I think the LGBTQ people, the latin/hispanic people, the people of color, and the native people don't need more #WhiteHeroes With a false guilt complex doing social activism in social networks, this world needs more real motivators and people to take action, this world does not need more keyboard activists claiming for social causes from their phone.

The world is not going to change because you write it on your blog or signing endless amnesty letters, if you want to change the world, go through the door and change it with real actions, not writing sociological trash from your smartphone while you drink the fashionable coffee in a  Starbucks

The world changes thanks to those who go out to protest with placards, the world changes thanks to those people who attend the marches and protests, those people who really take action.

The world will not change following the example of these white 'virtual activists' who protest from the comfort of their desk for 'the wrong anthropological use of a religious term' or who write a long twenty page post about 'why you should not buy'  articles of the Native Americans, in protest of the mass genocide '(genocide for which no one else is protesting).

Latinos and Hispanics do not need more white American men and women acting as heroes because they suffer a false sense of guilt for the colonization that brought their parents and relatives to this country.

While respecting and enforcing the rights of others, no matter where they come from, you will be making a difference, while giving them the same opportunities and responsibilities as yours (without any preference) you will be making a difference.

But please stop acting, we do not need more digital activists, much less heroes with guilt complexes wanting to be canonized.

BLUE MOON PHASE 2019

The full moon in Libra

Hugs of light and shadows to all my readers, a magical astral event comes to bless us again, the full moon that walks over us month after month comes to shelter us with a hundred blessings and remind us that just like her, we have phases, and that just like the moon, however dark and cold the night, we are destined to shine in the sky and illuminate the path for those who seek the magical path.

This Friday, April 19th, at exactly 2:15 a.m. (New York time) the Mother/Father Moon will enter its most resplendent face while remaining in the astrological sign of Libra, and about 12 hours later, at 1:05 p.m. (NY) the moon leaves its full facet entering the astrological sign of Scorpio.

This full moon comes full of surprises in the subject of relationships, phone calls and the loves of the past, do not forget that the Sun (greatness) in Aries (personal improvement), is currently in conjunction with Uranus (the goals personal) in Taurus (romance). This is a moment that the sun and the moon give us to evaluate our personal relationships of the past, and study in detail what will have been the failures of the same by both parties.

The full moon is the appropriate time to enjoy your achievements and see your aspirations turned into realities, it is a time of fullness, maturity, and completion of our personal projects.

"The full moon symbolizes an "enlightenment" in our lives, new feelings, and emotional revelations. It's time to express ourselves, and let things go outside of us. Of course, it is necessary to pay attention while we do it, knowing that what is coming out of us is new and not particularly rational yet.

The full moon in Libra is the moment many expect to start beauty treatments, fall in love, get married, start partnerships or personal relationships, decorate, buy new homes and clothes, accessories and art objects. The ideal moment to search and find balance in interpersonal relationships in general.

Harmony and peace, beauty and art, eloquence and charm, diplomacy and justice, unions of all kinds and the search for balance, are topics to be discussed during the transit of the moon by the astrological sign of Libra."

It is a good time to work with the lunar energy around finding balance in those aspects of your life in which you feel a bit stressed or tired, take advantage of this lunar phase to bless your agendas and calendars, and allow you to better organize your different commitments, appointments, and projects around these. It is also a good time for group meditation and studies related to organization, organization, feng shui, and those spells and rituals linked to the element of air, balance, intelligence, acquisition of new knowledge and connection with the gods, spirits, and avatars of the element air and wind.

Blue Moon

This blue moon of April 19, because it is the second full moon that occurs in the same month and also in the same sign, occurs in the 29th degree of Libra, as a good full moon, we have the sun and the full moon in complete opposition, we have the sun in Aries while the moon is handled in the pound sign, this tells us about the internal clashes between the "want to do" and "must do". A full moon is always a moment of emotional fullness that gives us a deadline to understand and conquer new cycles that we must balance, and patterns that we must balance.

The first full moon in Libra of this year 2019 invited us to know those negative patterns that we are repeating, and this second full moon invites us to finally decide which of those patterns to change, take advantage of the fact that we are already out of the retrograde Mercury cycle so as not to have no excuse, in these moments you can not say more "is that maybe I do it later", you are currently facing a period of reflection that allows you to optimize your time and make the most of it, so if you want to change something in your life, This is the time, and you have no excuse to delay it.

The meditations that strengthen your instinct and open your mind to allow you to contact the beyond, you will feel stronger at this time, for many witches, this is the time to contact the goddess Hecate, the queen of witches and a multifaceted lunar goddess. Hecate represents for many the evolution of the witch who abandons the old patterns of society and the "what others will say", turning away and seeking to transcend beyond these mundane routines to get lost in the woods, and in turn, to find herself in the middle of nowhere. This moon phase is perfect to clean and organize inside and out, do not forget that your external organization is only a reflection of the order that lives inside, so organize the ideas in your head, cleanse your soul of grudges, regrets and fears, and let the moon nurture these empty spaces with its good energy.

Take into account that 10 days ago we entered the retrogradation cycle of Jupiter, and we will maintain this frequency of Jupiter Retrograde in Sagittarius until August 11, 2019, this planetary phase directly influences our state of mind, making us feel very optimistic or pessimistic around our work and the more entrepreneurial aspect. Just as a reminder, you can write down in your diaries that on April 24, we will begin the retrograde Pluto experience and on April 30, the planet Saturn will join this movement, both retrograding in the sign of Capricorn.

A thousand blessings.

Kuat & Lae (the Sun and the Moon)

Lae & Kuat

He is the moon god for the Mamaurans, while Kuat is the sun god for them, a tribe of the Amazon that lives in Brazil. According to a Mamaurana legend, at the beginning of time it had been like this, in heaven, that daylight could not be avoided. It was always night and people lived in fear of being attacked by wild animals. Tired of the darkness, two heroes, Iae and his brother Kuat, decided to force the king of the birds, Urubutsin, who shared a little daylight with the people of the Amazon.

The two brothers hid inside a dead animal and they pass days waiting inside of him, as soon as Urubutsin arrived, Kuat grabbed his leg. Unable to escape, Urubutsin was forced to make an agreement with the two brothers. The birds will share the light of day with the mammas, and the night will alternate with the day. Since then, Kuat represented the Sun and Iae the Moon.

From booksellers sorcerers and cyber-pagans.

From booksellers sorcerers and cyber-pagans.

Let your closest relationship be with the gods

you worship and not with your social media.

While it is true that I am very regular with social networks, for me it is inevitable because it is part of my job, managing the accounts of other clients for the two agencies with which I work keeps me very focused in the world of social networks, I graduated as a publicist in 2013 and my area is precisely managing profiles and social networks, and although it is difficult for me to keep my academic/professional life in my spiritual/professional life, I do my best to keep it that way and until now I think I have achieved it.

My Twitter account is permanently active, it is my window to the world, it is literally my way of doing catharsis, sharing with my readers, with my friends, with my followers who support me, it is my way of taking ideas from my head, sharing notes and thoughts, funny pictures, great places, etc ... But I try to maintain a line and a firm position between both worlds and over time I have achieved a balance.

While my Instagram may be full of photographs of my candles and amulets, these are taken after the rituals, and mostly I do it to share the recipes with those who follow me, but not to show off, much less will they see me performing a ritual in a live Facebook, not by the intervention of the cameras, I really do not think that the device has any negative effect that I can not control, it is rather for two reasons that I think are quite logical, and which I have maintained against any argument that they have thrown me to defend the opposite.

First, for a topic of concentration, in the middle of my rituals, before and after them I like to feel focused on 100%, I do not tolerate any kind of distractions, and you can not give 100% of you, if 36% of your brain is busy focusing on the photo, the video and setting up snapchat filters.

Second, out of respect for my tradition, I'm not a Catholic, but I do not think Catholics go to mass and broadcast it on video, but I do not know much about their religion so I'm not really sure what I write here, and if They do, well, that's wrong. When you are in the middle of a ceremony or a spiritual session, you are having a private meeting with the creator gods of the universe, they descend to listen to you, look at you, encourage you, motivate you and encourage you to follow, listen to your complaints, your laments, and help you Heal in any aspect of your life that you need.

When you are reunited with the ruling god of your pantheon, you dedicate yourself to him or her, just as they dedicate themselves to you, and I do not think you can dedicate yourself 100% to them if you are focused on finding the correct angle of the camera for your Instagram post.

It is a matter of total respect and consideration, if I admire the American pagan community and its community of witches, it is that although they have all the facilities of the internet (much faster than you can imagine outside the USA) and make use of absolutely all social networks, they always seek to organize all kinds of talks, forums, events and festivals where they can meet face to face, celebrate the celebrations of the wheel of the year, perform all kinds of rituals in groups and long forums, talks and workshops to deal with various topics about the esoteric world and sorcery, and although it is true that we can find a lot of prejudice around, because there will always be those who only see the glass half empty and point out that all this is done only for money, beyond empty criticism, the money involved is not able to stain these events in any way, so far I have only attended the events organized in the state of NY, mostly by an agenda item, among other minor things, but to each of the events that I have attended I have found the same result:

Sorcerers, magician shamans, and sorcerers with real trajectories, mixed with the common sorcerer, the sorcerer of the city, the apprentice who is entering this unknown world.

World-renowned authors, many of whom we read in our early years in witchcraft and renowned as Judika Illes and Christopher Penczak, among many others who slip into these events to approach you and hold workshops, in addition, who does not want the opportunity to have signed a book of your favorite author ?.

Believers and practitioners of all the diverse pagan and neopagan currents (Asatru, Wicca, Druids, sorcerers, etc ...) Mixed in complete harmony, interrelating, talking, attending together the workshops achieving a peaceful coexistence, thus demonstrating that all this war "who is better than who" and "who has the most beautiful altar" is only a vague idea that exists in the virtual world, but at the moment of truth, we are all part of something bigger than ourselves and that attracts us to these places to realize that if we are part of a huge pagan family that has not stopped growing.

Although I miss those times of going to the esoteric books section of the library, subscribe to the mailing lists of publishers waiting for their extensive catalogs of books to order the newest in the genre, although it was exciting to organize these forums of skype and yahoo where we saw each other's faces, I must admit that now the internet is available to everyone.

The internet makes us realize how big we are as a community, now we can participate in huge virtual forums of conversation, follow our favorite authors (and not to show off but now I'm even friends with several of mine on facebook), and keeps us abreast of the esoteric or spiritual events and organizations that interest us the most.

Likewise, and like the same magic, the internet has its respective pros and cons, is full of trolls, haters, pretty ridiculous memes and fake people with fake names and fake photos with which you must be very careful, in addition the internet unfortunately It supports and promotes piracy in large part, I had to leave several Facebook groups when I noticed that they were uploading files full of books by my favorite authors, at that time I was writing my first book for a small print shop In Venezuela, he was also working for the publishing company Circulo de Lectores de Venezuela, a company that literally sank with the rise of piracy and left a total of 3,500 people unemployed throughout the country.

Who does not miss those long Yahoo mailing lists, where people really wrote, and shared very broad thoughts and reflections, was something made for those who really like to read and study, many times I even print them, because Many of these emails that revolved around a common theme were almost books full of information that went through the filters of many people, and they were gold.

Now in the social networks are saturated with information, much of it information that you do not need, to the point of being overwhelming, and all this without mentioning that in social networks we limit ourselves (because if the post is very broad nobody reads it and nobody shares it) so you have to limit yourself to writing the whole idea in less than 200 characters.

Let's not forget that social networks also give us that positive look, that touch of positivism that we study so much in marketing, that "like", that "comment" that tells you that you are doing something right, that makes you believe that you are on the way correct, and that puts you in the same box of those pink characters who do whatever it is for the "like", the problem when people get used to it, when "like", that positive reinforcement you receive, is more important than the content you share, is the problem there, when people get so used to giving everything for that like, and without realizing it, they stop contributing real good material, just because they are focused on the likes, because many times the ego only he asks for more positive reinforcements.

Another problem that brings the internet to the pagan community, is that we find all these bookstore sorcerers, who have read a couple of books and believe they know everything, I have often encountered trolls that harass me on the internet trying to "correct my work" because it does not go with one or two books that they have read.

For example there is a lot with the subject of rituals and spells, you can perform hundreds of spells, and you can do them very well, and have the results you want, but there is always an egocentric to correct you, just to show you "how much they know "in theory, and not so much in practice.

Because to identify an herb, that anyone does base on photos and books, but go to cut the grass personally, dry it in your house and use it for your own spells, that's practice, and in social media times, that practice is worth gold, but not for those who follow you on social networks, but for you.

Yes, it is true that the internet has unfortunately given more power to haters and trolls, and now many people also write in a blog without knowing what they are talking about, so everything we find on the internet must be swallowed with an extra granite of salt, even now it is quite normal to meet people who come to chat with you at 5 am to evangelize and tell you that you worship the devil, understand, "why to bother going to knock on your door on a Saturday morning, being able to just open your chat window to bother you from the comfort of your home? "

But also the internet has allowed us to form huge discussion groups, these groups where some 5 thousand people are added but only 50 participate, but those fifty people are worth gold, and for those fifty people who are now only a click away, it is worth keeping our presence on the internet, to share the links of our favorite books, to invite others like us to these events of pagan celebrations in our country, and even to chat and share the details and experiences of our spells.

But as I always write, as long as you are light, as long as you know how to shine, no matter how dark the cave you enter, you can be light and illuminate the path to others who come after you.

With Love & Respect

Elhoim Leafar

For those who have asked me, and also for those who have not.

For those who have asked me, and also for those who have not.

Greetings to all beautiful creatures, to those who pass by here, know surely that this year celebrated the first ten years of having started as a blogger, only my blog in Spanish has so far more than 250 thousand visits, this blog where I write in English since A little over two years has accumulated about 58 thousand visits, and I'm quite proud of it, taking into account that I do not have the support of most of the pagan community, I do not belong to any circle, coven or brotherhood and my name is not precisely one of the loudest, this reminds me how much I have worked hard every day for my blogs, for my books and for being faithful to who I am and my ideas.

Maintaining a blog is not easy, especially when there are so many others out there making so much noise, some of them are really good at their job, creative and almost indispensable, there are bloggers and writers out there who really cause to read every day, on the other hand, there are many bloggers who make too much noise in comparison to what little they contribute, and many times what they contribute is nothing more than something they copied from someone else or in many cases they only write about the topics of fashion seeking to reach more readers selling the same freshly baked bread from the neighbor, but with another presentation.

Keep this blog has been a real challenge, taking into account that today anyone can call a web designer for $ 800 or more will do an excellent web work, and if you want to have many readers (especially in the esoteric field) you know that the key is easy, you just have to write over and over again on the topics of fashion, almost everyone does it, suddenly there is a new show on television about feng shui, write about it, a new key show related to witches appears, write about it, it is fashionable to have an animated series about witches and shamans, write about it, not only captured the mainstream audience and possibly your tweet among fashion trends, we also capture the uninitiated in the esoteric world, those that are are entering the magical and spiritual world looking for a true guide that takes them by the hand, and capture them always selling the idea that "this is easy", "magic is something easy to reach two", "you are powerful and you are going to fly out after reading one or two posts", etc...

When you differ from the rest because you take your personal beliefs very seriously, and when you have seen and felt in your own flesh the enormous power of which magic is capable, once you mature and you realize that sorcery is not a game, that invoking and pacting with demons and spirits is not "something cool" as everyone tells you and that the responsibilities that you are going to have to assume make you regret every step, when you observe with your own eyes that that spell you took from a book and You took to the practice, it has an effect that you did not expect and the control comes out of your hands, when you find yourself with a group of other practitioners working on voiding or reversing some spell in the middle of a mountain, on the path along the river, between 2 and 5 in the morning, under the rain and cold, we understand that magic and witchcraft is neither child's play nor is it "something cool" that everyone is invited to practice, especially if it is about people what a sun or seek to enter sorcery for fun or because they believe (like most) that being a true sorcerer is to go out in the street dressed in black and with a hundred necklaces of stones called "witches" and with a repudiable attitude towards the rest.

When you are the gray sheep among a hundred white sheep that believe that being the black sheep is to live an easy life without responsibilities, you will soon be seen by everyone else as the bad wolf of the story, and nobody wants to read the bad wolf that gives you warnings, because it will always be more fun to read the black sheep that tell you "here you have no obligations or responsibilities, join me". Once you are in the position of the bad wolf, being taken seriously is very difficult.

But still here we continue, writing every time the opportunity presents itself, sharing with you, each and every one of the possible responsibilities, answering your emails every time I can and working constantly on the mailing list, scheduling some events (well you know I'm not a big fan of public events and I do not feel comfortable talking openly with people), and of course working on this next book which I started writing in 2016 and we have already worked for three years.

I still have a picture I made with my cell phone years ago when my blog reached the first hundred visits, and that felt very cool, I had my first subscribers, a couple of emails in my mail asking some questions, it was a great experience , now we go over 50 thousand visits, in fact we are only 200 to reach 60 thousand visits to the blog, and that is great, especially taking into account that here I write alone and I do not have any collaborator, it will be great for I see how we continue to grow at a slow but steady pace, as well as the rivers that, no matter how thick the mountains, reach their way to the sea.

Thank you very much to all.
With Love & Respect, Elhoim.

The first 4 main Mesoamerican religions

This would have been the 4 main Mesoamerican religions.

Hello everyone, answering here a simple topic that I was raised a few days ago while we talked about ayahuasca. The Mayan or Aztec cultures are the most important at a historical level, due to the great influence they had. However, there are more than a dozen Mesoamerican civilizations and cultures, which have more than 20,000 years.

Beyond focusing on making a descriptive writing of each of the original deities of Mesoamerica, I will only provide a quick glimpse of their polytheist cults, which were more focused on nature, sacrifices (animals and humans) and climate, that in other aspects, but it is not to forget that these religions were strongly influenced by astrology, astronomy and the latent admiration towards the animal figures.

Based on religious traditions, as well as on the findings and expert archaeologists, it is easy to determine that there were multiple Mesoamerican cultures and religions, such as the Huastecas, Tlaxcaltecas, Chichimecas, Toltecs, and Zapotecs, among others, long before Christopher Columbus "discover" America.

The Mesoamerican civilization dates back to the pre-Hispanic era of the regions that now make up countries such as Mexico, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica. The cultural and demographic proliferation occurred during that time of the thaw, around the year 7000 BC, a fact that meant the development of agricultural activity so that the inhabitants could subsist.

As it happened in the beginnings of almost any type of society, the foundations of religion were also established, in which to bow, perform rituals and worship the gods to whom help was asked in difficult times.

Aztecs

In its beginnings, the Aztecs were considered a lower Mesoamerican culture due to their nomadic nature, until the 15th century arrived and they decided to establish their own empire. They worked the land to improve the cultivation, built boats to resort to fishing and invented an irrigation system to supply water to the territory where they ruled.

The religion that they professed has been considered as "bloodthirsty" due to the offerings they had to make to their gods, which often meant the sacrifice of human lives, prisoners of tribal wars or even relatives to feed the sun god, of fertility and water to survive.

Their religion was polytheistic, although they only professed worship of a few principal deities. The most important gods were related to the solar and agricultural cycle. In the Aztec religion, human sacrifices were very common. Upon reaching the Valley of Mexico, they tried to incorporate the culture and gods of the most advanced civilizations that were already established and that of older civilizations such as the Toltec.

Principal Gods:

Huitzilopochtli

God of war, wisdom, and power, identify him with the serpent. The precursor of summer, the season of lightning and fertility. He was honored in the fifteenth Aztec month, in a ceremony in which the priest crossed with an arrow a mass prepared with the blood of people sacrificed for such an occasion.

Quetzalcoatl: "the feathered serpent".

Father of the Toltecs, it is related to the teaching of the arts and, therefore, acts as an introducer of civilization. His devotees, to venerate him, drew blood from the veins under the tongue or behind the ear and smeared the mouth of the idols with it. The effusion of blood replaced the direct sacrifice.

Tláloc

God of rain, married to Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of water, who used to be represented with the image of a frog, and with whom he had many children: the tlalocas or clouds. He lived in a paradise of waters called Tlalocan, where there were those who had died in floods, struck by lightning or sick with dropsy, who there enjoyed eternal happiness. They offered him children and maidens in sacrifice. The farmers, in anticipation of drought, made idols in the image of Tlaloc and worshiped them offering them corn and pulque.

Chicomecoatl

The main goddess of agriculture, another form of water deity, Chalchiuhtlicue. Its festival was held between June and July when the corn plant had fully matured

Xolotl

God of the star of the afternoon, represented the ascending and descending forms of fire. Monstrous God appears in some of his representations with empty eye sockets because, according to legend, when sacrificing the gods to give life to the new Sun, he became so sad and cried so much that his eyes fell from their sockets.

Mictlantecuhtli

God of darkness and death. He lived in a region of Mictlán, in the Navel of the Earth; to this place went the dead who did not deserve any of the various degrees of heavens, and their punishment was boredom.

Maya

They attribute this characteristic of exceptional because they influenced the development of knowledge in the region. With regard to the American continent, from them came astrology, mathematics or writing. The Maya were considered at the same time the merchant community par excellence and were pioneers with cocoa, silk, and cotton.

The Mayan religion is a pre-Columbian religion that was firmly united to the veneration of the gods. Religion was concerned with understanding the why of things, which leads us to define it as a sort of precursor philosophy of modern science. Thus, Mayan scientific discoveries, ideology, and religion can not be conceived separately, since all have, even at the beginning, their origin in faith and belief.

The role of priests was marked by a series of "classes" that hierarchized and divided according to their level of performance between men and gods. In this way, there were the priests of the Sun, who presided over the ritual acts, the prophets (chilán), who had the quality of entering into a kind of trance and predicting what would happen in the future.

The Mayans practiced a religion strongly influenced by astrology and magic, they performed a cult to more than a dozen deities, they practiced blood rites, human sacrifices, animal sacrifices, funeral rites, purification rites, celebratory rites and rituals linked to the ball games.

Popol Vuh

The Popol Vuh is a compilation of legends of the Quiché -people of the Mayan majority culture in Guatemala-. In it, you can find mystical, philosophical, artistic and scientific values that together create a religious unity. It is also called the book of the council since it is the most important Maya literary book.

The Popol Vuh is divided into three parts:

The creation of the world.

The creation of the first couple of people and the civilization of corn.

The Quiche and Kings until 1550.

The sun and the moon

The Mayan was very devoted to these stories about the creation of the twin gods called Hun-Hunahpú and Vucub-Hunahpú. They liked to play ball, they were making noise and this annoyed the lords of Xibalbá (the underground kingdom) Hun-Camé and Vucub-Camé. The twins were transported to the lower world, where they would be judged and should go through several tests. But even so, they were executed and buried in the field of play, where they played ball.

Zamná, or Itzamná, was at first a great Mayan priest arrived with the Bacalar changes (later called itzáes) to found and settle in Chichen Itza, around 525 AD. C.

There, at Chichen Itza, Zamna lived for a time and taught his doctrines. A wise man who "named the places and lands, sites and promontories of the Mayab, today Yucatan," and invented the first characters that served as letters to the natives of the region.

After the time, his reputation increased and his fame increased, Zamna was raised to the deity in the Mayan pantheon, is linked to the face of the sun and the rain, therefore with agriculture. Traditionally, Itzamna is considered the son of Hunab Ku, the only God, and among the attributions given to him is being a deity of medicine and agriculture, besides being "The Lord of the heavens, night and day "

Olmecs

One can consider the Olmec culture as the mother of the two previous ones, the architect of what encompasses the settlement of Mesoamerican cultures. They are attributed to the creation of writing and epigraphy, and the invention of the zero and the Mesoamerican calendar.

They considered everything that surrounded them as living beings, such as mountains, trees, rivers, caves. The gods were directly related to the rulers, who were their descendants, for that reason they possessed supernatural powers. The center of the Olmec religion was the belief in nahualism, that is, the ability of man to transform into an animal and vice versa.

The Olmec society was governed exclusively on the basis of theological laws. It is considered a theocracy of antiquity. The worship of the gods (was also polytheistic) was represented in temples dedicated to them and sculptures of idolatry. In addition, there was an authority to regulate the creed: the figure of the Shaman, the equivalent to the Roman Pope.

Within the religion of the Olmec there was a variety of gods represented by figures of creatures of unknown origin combined with animals, considered the ancestors of their rulers, among whom are:

Nahual or the jaguar: was the main god, shaman of the animal world and deity of fertility.

Dragon Olmec: (the monster of the earth) One of the most represented deities of them.

Homxuk: son of the sun and god of corn.

Spirit of the rain: is represented by a small person, but was a powerful rain god with helpers.

Quetzalcoatl: god of the wind, life and the morning.

Huehueteotl: old god or fire, symbolizes the beginning of a new year.

Man of the harvest: he was a man who sacrificed his life so that the people could produce food.

Teotihuacan Culture

Perhaps it is the least known civilization and the most enigmatic of them all since it is believed that it disappeared long before the Spanish invasion. Religion once again takes a leading role in this civilization, and the temples of Quetzalcoatl, the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon are witnesses of this.

Within the Teotihuacan religion, various gods were worshiped, which in turn represented natural elements such as fire, water, mountains or earth. A great goddess of the Teotihuacan religion was the Spider Woman, venerated as a creative deity, of the underworld and darkness.

Other relevant gods were Chalchiuhtlicue as the deity of water, and Xipe Totec, god of agriculture and corn. They also worshiped Tlaloc, who represented rain or war, and Quetzalcoatl who manifested wisdom. Another god was Huehuetéotl, an old man venerated as a symbol of fire.

Human sacrifices were a ritual to demonstrate to their gods the dedication and commitment to build a pyramid or to ensure the prosperity of the city. Their victims were enemy warriors, who were decapitated, their hearts were subtracted or buried alive.

At the end of this, I promise to develop more material that will make them arrive as soon as possible until then, I leave my best wishes and my blessings.

Inspired & Made with Love.

Elhoim Leafar.