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In African spirituality there is also a rainbow-serpent connected to the Orisha Oshumare. Oshumare is a rainbow serpent. He is one of the Orishas that changes sexes. Some Orisha such as Oshosi have a path of the opposite sex. Oshumare is male part of the year and female part of the year. In some cases, he spends half the year with a male top and female bottom, and half with a female top and male bottom. Damballah Wedo is his counterpart among the Fon based Lwa of the Vodoun spirituality in Benin republic. Like Damballah Wedo, he/she is a rainbow serpent. He/She is the messenger from Olodumare. In African spirituality, Olodumare is essentially unreachable. Thus the Orisha. They are our intermediaries and helpers, because Olodumare has more important things to do than worry about the lives of humans. Oshumare is something of an exception to that generality. He brings messages to us directly from Olodumare. As such He/She is very important for our welfare. When a Spirit Medium is working, it is very often Oshumare who holds place while another Orisha is being called.
Oshumare's colors are green and yellow or rainbow. Sunday is a sacred day for spiritual workings involving Him/Her.
Oshumare's children are quiet and gentle people. They rarely speak, but when they do you'd best listen carefully. It is easy to confuse Oshumare's children with Obatala children. Oshumare children tend to be quieter.
Feast Day of the Orisha Goddess OYA – February 2 The promise of Spring, the quickening, and the fire of Goddess also inspires other Goddess festivals. this powerful Warrior Goddess :🔥🌩🐃🦋🌑🌪⚡️ OYA is the Ruler of the Wind and Ruler of Tornadoes and She claims lightning as one of Her powers as well. O-ya means “she tore” in Yoruba. An elemental Goddess – Air, Fire Water – She incorporates all of them into Her. She is the personification of the Niger River and has the power to shapeshift into a water buffalo (and in some stories, other animals in the wilderness). As a Female Warrior, She fights ferociously and is fearless in Her protection of Her children and mates. Hunters and Chieftains seek OYA’s good graces for abundant hunting and in selecting strong leaders. OYA is also the Owner of the Marketplace. As Queen of the Dead, She safeguards the spirits of those who have passed and keeps the Ancestral connections, reminding future generations from where they came. She is the only Orisha that has a foot in Life and a foot in Death. OYA governs the gates of cemeteries and it is there that She receives offerings from Her children who those seeking Her assistance. In all that She does, She is independent, unpredictable, fierce and beautiful.👑🦉
Iba se esu - we pay reverence to the divine messenger (3 times) ESU OKORI OKO- Esu, the Orisa avenger ESU OTA ORISA- Esu, the stone bearer OLAGBOKUN- The great fighter ALAGBARA- Divine messenger of power OMOKUNRIN DUDU ITA- Dark skinned man of the outside BABA KEKERE- Little Baba, small revered man OSE OTURA- Baba knows him as Ose Otura LAGEMO ORUN- The indulgent child of Orun LAGOGO IJA NI ORUKO IYA NPE E - Owner of the gong that announces flights O DA SOKOTO PENPE JE ALASO ETU IYA- The small man that punishes the mighty AKINLOGAN- The brave one AKANLE- He that does things in a fast motion. PAA PAA WARA- The hurrying and sudden one A R'OKO KA'LE- He that farms around the house A R'OKO KA'DE- He that farms outside the house LASUNKAN- Wealth slides near ENI SE EBO NI OORE NI ESU NGBE- It is the person that make ebo which receives Esu's ase OBEMBO NIJO- The great dancer ESU ALAGBANA- Divine messenger of Obatala ALAPASAPA EJAKALU- Esu, the divine messenger that delivered the herbalist and priest of the town OLE SONSO ORI ESE ELESE- He that sits himself conspicuously on his victim's lap AFI OKUTA DIPO IYO- He that changes luck to good or bad ESU ALAKETU- The divine messenger of Alaketu town ESU ISERI- The divine messenger of the morning drew ESU OPIN- The divine messenger of boundaries ESU GOGO- The divine messenger of full payments ESU WARA- The divine messenger of personal relationships ESU IJELU- The divine messenger of the drum ESU JEKI EBO DA- The divine messenger that sanctions life force offerings ESU AGONGON GOJA- The divine messenger of the wide belt ESU ELEKUN- The divine messenger of the hunters ESU AROWOJE- The divine messenger of the ocean ESU LALU- The divine messenger of dance ESU PAKUTA SI EWA- The divine messenger who creates and destroys beauty ESU KEWE LE DUNJE- The divine messenger who eats sweets ESU ELEGBARA- The divine messenger of the warrior ESU EMALONA- The divine messenger of any means ESU LAROYE- The divine messenger of the spirit of the river ESU ANANAKI- The divine messenger of the past and masquerades ESU OKOBURU- The divine enforcer ESU ODARA- The divine messenger of transformation ESU MOJUBA O- Esu I give my reverence ESU MA SE MI- Esu, do not confuse me ENI TI KO SE EBO NI KI O SE- Confuse whoever fails to make ebo and refuses to appease and respect you ASE O!- May it be so! I hope this helps one love peace and blessings
Ile Isokan celebrates our Elders while they're still here with us in Aye. Eku odun ojo ibi o. Happy belated earthstrong Iya Ella Andall. May you be blessed with good health. May you be blessed with long life. Gbogbo ire fun o. Ps her birthday was yesterday
The Struggle ends: In 1950, Britain gave Trinidad and Tobago its first Ministerial government. In the elections to the Legislative Council in 1950, Butler’s party, the British Empire Workers and Citizens Home Rule Party, won the largest number of seats, although his rival, Albert Gomes, leader of the Party of Political Progress Groups, was appointed Chief Minister of the new government. The two leaders, however, agreed to use their new political power to end the persecution of the Spiritual Baptists. On March 30th, 1951, they passed the Bill to repeal the Prohibition Ordinance. The Repeal Act was the first legal step in putting the Spiritual Baptists on equal footing with other non-European faiths in the country. With the end of Prohibition, Spiritual Baptists were co-opted as a major force in emerging national party politics under the leadership of Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Some believe that Williams was secretly baptised as a Spiritual Baptist. Under Williams’ regime, the Baptists rapidly enlarged their legitimacy and status through several Acts of Parliament incorporating their several organizations with local regional and international reach. They also began establishing alliances with Baptists international. For example, Archbishop’s Sandiford’s West Indian United Baptist Sacred Order was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1960, and in 1964, the West Indian Ecclesiastical Baptist Faith established by Elton Griffith was incorporated by an Act of Parliament. After many years of advocacy for a day to commemorate the Repeal of the Prohibition Act of 1917, In 1996, the government declared March 30th, Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day, a public holiday.
"The Shouters Prohibition Act, which was passed in Trinidad and Tobago in 1917, gave police the authority to arrest and charge anyone practising the Shouters religion in any public place or at private homes.
Under the law, magistrates were authorised to fine or imprison offenders. The law did not allow for appeals to a higher court. This pernicious Act drove the Shouters underground for many years while it was in effect.
Practising their religion underground meant being in spiritual bondage from 1917 to 1951, the year in which the Act was repealed.
Hundreds of Shouters were hauled before the courts and even imprisoned as they bravely chose to go to jail for Jesus. Those who preferred to worship away from the prying eyes of the police had to assemble in forested areas or at the banks of rivers. There they assembled in small groups to worship, hence the reason why even today there are so many small groups of worshippers headed by an archbishop.
For the Shouters, the 34 years they endured the ban there were many cases brought before magistrates for trial.
Among those who suffered at the hands of police during the ban was Teacher Patrick of Picton Road, Sangre Grande. She was arrested with members of her church while performing a baptism in a river. At the court hearing the members were released, but the leader was imprisoned for three months. "
I’d like to extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of the legendary Sandra Des Vignes-Millington. You have definitely made your impact and have left a legacy which cannot die. May you have a safe journey on the other side and may you watch over us with our ancestors ase. Modupe Ogun Modupe. Modupe our Ancestors Modupe.
The name OBATALA is derived from the words: OBA TI O NI ALA, meaning THE KING IN THE WHITE APPAREL, THE LORD OF THE WHITE CLOTH, THE KING THAT BROUGHT HUMANS INTO BEING or THE KING WITH DISTINCTIVE BOUNDARY He is also known as ORISAALA or ORISANLA, which means the great divinity, or ‘the one of most grandeur’. Divinities however should not be viewed as a women or men, because their statutes or image could not be defined in terms of natural physical structures like men or women. Since OLODUMARE could not be seen as either a man nor a woman, hence divinities takes after him as an embodiment of this perpetual glory and reveals themselves in whatever form they see fit. The woman/man relationship of OBATALA depends on the odu in question – or the tradition employed by the writer. In one stanza of Ogunda Meji it is stated that Obatala is a woman and further down in the stanza it is said that Obatala is an ageless divinity that came into iwarun – together with a host of other potent divinities. Ogunda meji claimed that ORISAALA had no father and that she was the mother of all creatures in creation, while OGUN was the father of all creatures. In other words, they both were considered to be directly created by OLODUMARE. This was the main reason for why ORISANLA was viewed as the mother goddess of IWARUN – the physical existence – and why OGUN was named ONIWARUN, ONIRE OKO EYO, meaning THE LORD OF IWARU, THE LEADER OF IRE HUSBAND OF EYO Traditions reveals that it was ORISAALA who was the mother of Obanla and Obalufon, both of them were men. ORISAALA had other children, amongst them Yemoja. Yemoja gave birth to Osun – the grand-daughter of ORISAALA. Orisanla or Orisa ala had another daughter called EFUNSEEKE. Efunseeke came of age and married. One day Ogun was celebrating one of his annual festivals in which he was drunk and as a consequence of a joke wine and alcohol entered the eyes of EFUNSEEKE and she became blind. Asé
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ORISHA OSHUMARE
In African spirituality there is also a rainbow-serpent connected to the Orisha Oshumare. Oshumare is a rainbow serpent. He is one of the Orishas that changes sexes. Some Orisha such as Oshosi have a path of the opposite sex. Oshumare is male part of the year and female part of the year. In some cases, he spends half the year with a male top and female bottom, and half with a female top and male bottom. Damballah Wedo is his counterpart among the Fon based Lwa of the Vodoun spirituality in Benin republic. Like Damballah Wedo, he/she is a rainbow serpent. He/She is the messenger from Olodumare.
In African spirituality, Olodumare is essentially unreachable. Thus the Orisha. They are our intermediaries and helpers, because Olodumare has more important things to do than worry about the lives of humans. Oshumare is something of an exception to that generality. He brings messages to us directly from Olodumare. As such He/She is very important for our welfare.
When a Spirit Medium is working, it is very often Oshumare who holds place while another Orisha is being called.
Oshumare's colors are green and yellow or rainbow. Sunday is a sacred day for spiritual workings involving Him/Her.
Oshumare's children are quiet and gentle people. They rarely speak, but when they do you'd best listen carefully. It is easy to confuse Oshumare's children with Obatala children. Oshumare children tend to be quieter.
Grand rising!
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Feast Day of the Orisha Goddess OYA – February 2
The promise of Spring, the quickening, and the fire of Goddess also inspires other Goddess festivals.
this powerful Warrior Goddess :🔥🌩🐃🦋🌑🌪⚡️
OYA is the Ruler of the Wind and Ruler of Tornadoes and She claims lightning as one of Her powers as well. O-ya means “she tore” in Yoruba. An elemental Goddess – Air, Fire Water – She incorporates all of them into Her. She is the personification of the Niger River and has the power to shapeshift into a water buffalo (and in some stories, other animals in the wilderness). As a Female Warrior, She fights ferociously and is fearless in Her protection of Her children and mates. Hunters and Chieftains seek OYA’s good graces for abundant hunting and in selecting strong leaders. OYA is also the Owner of the Marketplace. As Queen of the Dead, She safeguards the spirits of those who have passed and keeps the Ancestral connections, reminding future generations from where they came. She is the only Orisha that has a foot in Life and a foot in Death. OYA governs the gates of cemeteries and it is there that She receives offerings from Her children who those seeking Her assistance. In all that She does, She is independent, unpredictable, fierce and beautiful.👑🦉
Oya(The goddess of storms) by ELLA ANDALL
https://youtu.be/6-D8QL-hM5A
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Iba se esu - we pay reverence to the divine messenger (3 times)
ESU OKORI OKO- Esu, the Orisa avenger
ESU OTA ORISA- Esu, the stone bearer
OLAGBOKUN- The great fighter
ALAGBARA- Divine messenger of power
OMOKUNRIN DUDU ITA- Dark skinned man of the outside
BABA KEKERE- Little Baba, small revered man
OSE OTURA- Baba knows him as Ose Otura
LAGEMO ORUN- The indulgent child of Orun
LAGOGO IJA NI ORUKO IYA NPE E - Owner of the gong that announces flights
O DA SOKOTO PENPE JE ALASO ETU IYA- The small man that punishes the mighty
AKINLOGAN- The brave one
AKANLE- He that does things in a fast motion.
PAA PAA WARA- The hurrying and sudden one
A R'OKO KA'LE- He that farms around the house
A R'OKO KA'DE- He that farms outside the house
LASUNKAN- Wealth slides near
ENI SE EBO NI OORE NI ESU NGBE- It is the person that make ebo which receives Esu's ase
OBEMBO NIJO- The great dancer
ESU ALAGBANA- Divine messenger of Obatala
ALAPASAPA EJAKALU- Esu, the divine messenger that delivered the herbalist and priest of the town
OLE SONSO ORI ESE ELESE- He that sits himself conspicuously on his victim's lap
AFI OKUTA DIPO IYO- He that changes luck to good or bad
ESU ALAKETU- The divine messenger of Alaketu town
ESU ISERI- The divine messenger of the morning drew
ESU OPIN- The divine messenger of boundaries
ESU GOGO- The divine messenger of full payments
ESU WARA- The divine messenger of personal relationships
ESU IJELU- The divine messenger of the drum
ESU JEKI EBO DA- The divine messenger that sanctions life force offerings
ESU AGONGON GOJA- The divine messenger of the wide belt
ESU ELEKUN- The divine messenger of the hunters
ESU AROWOJE- The divine messenger of the ocean
ESU LALU- The divine messenger of dance
ESU PAKUTA SI EWA- The divine messenger who creates and destroys beauty
ESU KEWE LE DUNJE- The divine messenger who eats sweets
ESU ELEGBARA- The divine messenger of the warrior
ESU EMALONA- The divine messenger of any means
ESU LAROYE- The divine messenger of the spirit of the river
ESU ANANAKI- The divine messenger of the past and masquerades
ESU OKOBURU- The divine enforcer
ESU ODARA- The divine messenger of transformation
ESU MOJUBA O- Esu I give my reverence
ESU MA SE MI- Esu, do not confuse me
ENI TI KO SE EBO NI KI O SE- Confuse whoever fails to make ebo and refuses to appease and respect you
ASE O!- May it be so!
I hope this helps one love peace and blessings
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Ile Isokan celebrates our Elders while they're still here with us in Aye.
Eku odun ojo ibi o.
Happy belated earthstrong Iya Ella Andall.
May you be blessed with good health.
May you be blessed with long life.
Gbogbo ire fun o. Ps her birthday was yesterday
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The Struggle ends:
In 1950, Britain gave Trinidad and Tobago its first Ministerial government. In the elections to the Legislative Council in 1950, Butler’s party, the British Empire Workers and Citizens Home Rule Party, won the largest number of seats, although his rival, Albert Gomes, leader of the Party of Political Progress Groups, was appointed Chief Minister of the new government. The two leaders, however, agreed to use their new political power to end the persecution of the Spiritual Baptists. On March 30th, 1951, they passed the Bill to repeal the Prohibition Ordinance.
The Repeal Act was the first legal step in putting the Spiritual Baptists on equal footing with other non-European faiths in the country.
With the end of Prohibition, Spiritual Baptists were co-opted as a major force in emerging national party politics under the leadership of Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Some believe that Williams was secretly baptised as a Spiritual Baptist. Under Williams’ regime, the Baptists rapidly enlarged their legitimacy and status through several Acts of Parliament incorporating their several organizations with local regional and international reach. They also began establishing alliances with Baptists international. For example, Archbishop’s Sandiford’s West Indian United Baptist Sacred Order was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1960, and in 1964, the West Indian Ecclesiastical Baptist Faith established by Elton Griffith was incorporated by an Act of Parliament.
After many years of advocacy for a day to commemorate the Repeal of the Prohibition Act of 1917, In 1996, the government declared March 30th, Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day, a public holiday.
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HAPPY SPIRITUAL SHOUTER BAPTIST LIBERATION DAY
"The Shouters Prohibition Act, which was passed in Trinidad and Tobago in 1917, gave police the authority to arrest and charge anyone practising the Shouters religion in any public place or at private homes.
Under the law, magistrates were authorised to fine or imprison offenders. The law did not allow for appeals to a higher court. This pernicious Act drove the Shouters underground for many years while it was in effect.
Practising their religion underground meant being in spiritual bondage from 1917 to 1951, the year in which the Act was repealed.
Hundreds of Shouters were hauled before the courts and even imprisoned as they bravely chose to go to jail for Jesus. Those who preferred to worship away from the prying eyes of the police had to assemble in forested areas or at the banks of rivers. There they assembled in small groups to worship, hence the reason why even today there are so many small groups of worshippers headed by an archbishop.
For the Shouters, the 34 years they endured the ban there were many cases brought before magistrates for trial.
Among those who suffered at the hands of police during the ban was Teacher Patrick of Picton Road, Sangre Grande. She was arrested with members of her church while performing a baptism in a river. At the court hearing the members were released, but the leader was imprisoned for three months. "
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I’d like to extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of the legendary Sandra Des Vignes-Millington. You have definitely made your impact and have left a legacy which cannot die. May you have a safe journey on the other side and may you watch over us with our ancestors ase. Modupe Ogun Modupe. Modupe our Ancestors Modupe.
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The name OBATALA is derived from the words: OBA TI O NI ALA, meaning THE KING IN THE WHITE APPAREL, THE LORD OF THE WHITE CLOTH, THE KING THAT BROUGHT HUMANS INTO BEING or THE KING WITH DISTINCTIVE BOUNDARY
He is also known as ORISAALA or ORISANLA, which means the great divinity, or ‘the one of most grandeur’. Divinities however should not be viewed as a women or men, because their statutes or image could not be defined in terms of natural physical structures like men or women. Since OLODUMARE could not be seen as either a man nor a woman, hence divinities takes after him as an embodiment of this perpetual glory and reveals themselves in whatever form they see fit. The woman/man relationship of OBATALA depends on the odu in question – or the tradition employed by the writer. In one stanza of Ogunda Meji it is stated that Obatala is a woman and further down in the stanza it is said that Obatala is an ageless divinity that came into iwarun – together with a host of other potent divinities. Ogunda meji claimed that ORISAALA had no father and that she was the mother of all creatures in creation, while OGUN was the father of all creatures. In other words, they both were considered to be directly created by OLODUMARE. This was the main reason for why ORISANLA was viewed as the mother goddess of IWARUN – the physical existence – and why OGUN was named ONIWARUN, ONIRE OKO EYO, meaning THE LORD OF IWARU, THE LEADER OF IRE HUSBAND OF EYO
Traditions reveals that it was ORISAALA who was the mother of Obanla and Obalufon, both of them were men. ORISAALA had other children, amongst them Yemoja. Yemoja gave birth to Osun – the grand-daughter of ORISAALA.
Orisanla or Orisa ala had another daughter called EFUNSEEKE. Efunseeke came of age and married. One day Ogun was celebrating one of his annual festivals in which he was drunk and as a consequence of a joke wine and alcohol entered the eyes of EFUNSEEKE and she became blind.
Asé
Obatala o APA o https://youtu.be/C1Xw_9ofSz8
Obatala(King Of The White Cloth) by ELLA ANDALL https://youtu.be/iSnufQxpo-M
https://youtu.be/yin97wLSm2w
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