Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : Report of a Kumina gathering in Jamaica
Kumina is both a religion and dance that has been retained from the African heritage. It is kept alive in St. Thomas by people who drum and dance while speaking the Bantu language of the Congo.
It is the practice of bringing down spirits of the dead to [...]
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 drum. [...]
SOURCE : Santeria, A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic.
Fantastic online book covering many of the most important ideas and methods of Cuban Santeria : Orishas, divination, sacrifice, etc.
SOURCE : The Slanderous Devotee : Shadow Projection and Spiritual Mastery
The Slanderous Devotee is one of the extreme forms of the antagonistic devotee. Everything that is said about the antagonistic follower or devotee also applies to them, but even more so. Not only have they not mastered their lower affective nature, but their affective being [...]
SOURCE : The Serpent as Gnostic Liberator in New Orleans Voodoo
Voodoo originated in the African kingdom of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin). Vodu was the region of the Dahomeans. The word vodu and its various forms – voodoo, voudou, vaudau, even hoodoo – encompassed all aspects of the religion, including the gods, the cult, [...]
SOURCE : The Baptist’s Head – The African Diaspora: An interview with an initiate
I think that in general the African traditions as found in the Americas lack any “spiritual” or “personal growth factors.” I think that most of the hard core practitioners are actually “unenlightening” themselves, as explained earlier. In fact, they are [...]
SOURCE : Iraqi MP defends Luciferin Parliament
Baghdad – The devil looked in on Iraq’s parliament on Wednesday when a member of parliament upbraided Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari for speaking ill of Lucifer.
Kameran Khairi Said, a Kurdish MP and a member of the minority Yezidi community that worship[s] the peacock angel, also known as Lucifer, angrily [...]
SOURCE : Arthur Rackham, animism and tree spirits
An obsession with fairies and all things diaphanous was common among late-Victorian illustrators, but it is this element of almost pagan cruelty that makes Rackham more than just a period piece…
Trees whose branches are arms and whose roots are clawed feet, whose heads sprout a bristling crown of [...]
SOURCE : Sacrifice, Iwa Pele and the Gods
I remember being taught by an authoritative source in the Akan religion the following: He said that some people get into the religion with the wrong, and wrongful, idea, that they can keep on doing bad things, trusting that they can keep sacrificing another chicken, goat, or what-have-you, [...]
SOURCE : Cuban Babalawo on Anthropocentrism, Ifa and Destiny
“It is an anthropocentric religion, meaning it puts man at the center of the universe. Man lives and dies, and all existence is within that space. There is no before and no after. It is about living, and about living according to your individual way of life.”
“It [...]
