Working and Venerating the Sister Goddesses of Africa, Oshun, the goddess of the river, love, and fertility, and Yemaya, the goddess of the ocean, fertility, and family.
Greetings and hugs to all the readers who walk around here (incredible, every time we are many more !!), today I am going to share in this post some information that may be useful to you about the Orishas of the waters, and how to work with them when You are not initiated in one of the corresponding Afro-Caribbean currents.
As promised earlier, I had this post saved waiting until our beloved Lilith Dorsey published her new book "Orishas, Goddesses and Voodoo Queens", to take it as a reference, but then I just forgot to post the post, Thanks Adriana for the reminder.
I would like to bore you a bit with all this “background” about coming from Venezuela, having grown up in the Amazon, having been initiated into the Candomble and the Lucumi way, 14 and 17 years ago respectively, but you can find all that in my biography, so here we get to the point, what you have come to.
The Orixas are (for lack of a better name) divine essences, spirits that incarnate different forces of nature and express themselves through them, they are enormously powerful, they come from Africa, as well as all of humanity (Thank you !!), and Although the Afro-Caribbean rites are mostly reserved for those who have been initiated in their corresponding ways, Candomble, Umbanda, Quimbanda, Lucumi, Yoruba, Ifa, etc..., It is not new that the Orixas always pay vital attention., even those who are not initiated, and if you doubt it, before answering, just try it, you will see the results, and you will be able to judge for yourself.
The Orixas are entities derived from a primordial deity "Oloddumare", below this post I will leave you the links corresponding to other posts that I have previously written about other deities of Africa and the Caribbean.
The Orixas or Orishas, are forces of nature that influence humanity in all possible forms and aspects, we have as many Orishas as gods in the Greek pantheon, but the light always jumps to the group of the central Orixas (Xango, Yemaya, Oshun, Eleggua, Oya), here I am going to share some information about some of these Orishas, who unlike others like Shango and Olokun, is certainly more "accessible" for those who have not been initiated.
Since I have given you a brief (incomplete) and clear introduction to the Orixas, here I leave you the links to each one, on each page I leave you a brief introduction to the corresponding Orixa and a couple of rituals that you can perform without having to enter in religion or without having been an initiate. They are simple rituals to do and do not require any elaborate preparation, I hope they serve you, put them into practice, and help you a lot.
Read here: Oshun, Goddess of the river.
Read here: Yemaya, Goddess of the sea.
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