Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : ANCIENT RECIPES Incense is used by practitioners of magic to enhance spells and communication with the spirits and gods. The following incenses are all made from natural ingredients. By burning natural ingredients, you are releasing the magical qualities of the herbs into the universe thus increasing the success rate of a magical spell [...]
SOURCE : Mestizo Shamanism, Vegetalistas and plant-based vision quests Among mestizo populations of the provinces of Loreto and Ucayali in Peru, the shamans of plant knowledge and medicine, who communicate with Sacha Runa (elemental spirits of the plants), are known as vegetalistas,. This term is used differentiate them from oracionistas, who employ only prayers for [...]
SOURCE : Kongo Religion in Jamaica : Kumina Kumina, otherwise known as kalunga or kaduunga, features flat-footed inching of the feet (or the kongo step), a steady, but often subtle, forward-thrusting of the hip with the rib cage and arms moving against the hip, followed by wild spins and sudden breaks, signalled by the lead [...]
SOURCE : Bioregional Animism and the reality of tree and plant spirits Bioregional Animism does not treat animals, plants, forces of nature, or the land and sky as tools, or symbols, for humans to use but instead views these other then human persons as just that… persons who can be communicated with, who relationships and [...]
SOURCE : CNN.com – Muti medicine: Herbs and murder – April 19, 2002 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — African traditional herbal medicine — muti — is normally used to cure minor ailment, but other and more darker methods are associated with the treatments. In recent years, South Africa has seen a string of occult crimes where [...]
SOURCE : El Brujo Osain is considered to be a “brujo” or witch, because some of the most powerful magic is done working with Osain. Remember that Osain is the owner of all the plants and trees and that includes not only their medicinal uses, but also their magical uses. When we speak of doing [...]
SOURCE : Exploring El Monte: Ethnobotany and the Afro-Cuban Science of the Concrete It is very possible that the term ashé, the “power-to-make-things-happen”, may be the Afro-Cuban way of referring to a plant’s chemical constituents, its magico-medicinal properties. A recent study by Edward Ayensu provides an important clue for understanding the logic of the Lukumí [...]
SOURCE : Ashé’wé Osayín The twenty one photos included on this voyage are some of the plants used by the Lukumí for ritual and medicinal purposes. Most of these photos have been taken in Miami and Cuba. The majority of these herbs (identified by an asterisks) are indispensable for ordinations and other ceremonies. Others that [...]
SOURCE : ORISHA SELF ASSESSMENT DIAGNOSTIC CHARTS The following Orisha Diagnostic Charts are designed to help you identify how the seven major Orishas act and interact within you. According to the correspondence science, various conditions of distress and disease are linked with each Orisha mode. This system of Orisha and Ajogun (negative energy ) relationships [...]
SOURCE : Orisha and Palo Herbs New World Herbs used in the religious practices of the Lukumi, including herbs used in Palo, and for spiritual baths [phpbay]osain, 3, “”, [/phpbay]
