Author: Baba Raul Canizares
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942272635
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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Obatala means "King of the White Cloth." This title refers to a particularly soft and beautiful white fabric associated with Yoruba Kings. This fabric's myriad threads are so masterfully interwoven that at first sight one cannot distinguish them. "To call an orisha the chief of white cloth is to make a symbolic reference to that substance which makes consciousness possible... It is a reference to the fabric which binds the universe together.
Author: Olayinka Adewuyi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989348904
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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In this groundbreaking book, Chief Olayinka Babatunde Ogunsina Adewuyi discusses the important aspects of the traditional African worship of Orisanla. The information in this book will be of great interest to any Orisa devotee. The book includes discussions about Obatala and the divinity’s relationship to humanity and to the sacred world; myths; Odu Ifa with translations in English relating to Orisaala; detailed descriptions of rituals, sacrifice, initiations, and other aspects of worship; history; a description of an Obatala temple; prayers; and a wide variety of other important topics, many of which will surprise and delight.
Author: Obafemi Origunwa
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387662139
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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What is the secret of African joy? From Bahia to New Orleans to London, Black people are the very embodiment of happiness! Our songs, our dances and our vibrant cultures light up the African diaspora with joy. The Yoruba say, mbari-mbayo! It means, "You see me and rejoice!" According to Yoruba tradition, Obatala is the Orisa closely associated with happiness. He is praised as "the father of laughter." Through his example, we discover happiness as a path of inner peace. In Obatala: Four Paths to Equanimity, you will learn four ways that Obatala shows the way to inner peace. The book includes a series of sacred text, self-exploration exercises, and activities designed to increase your personal connection to the magnificent energy of Obatala, the Great Orisa.
Author: Ifedayo Adigwe Akintomide
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435781589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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The story of Konga continues. There is unrest and suspiscion in the Kingdom of Ile - Ife. Other fallen elder gods seek to finish the work Eshu started by destroying Ife using the Staff of Obatala lost by Priestess Yetunde. Konga is conscripted by Olorun to find the Staff and save Ife from the dark forces intent on destroying it
Author: Migene Gonz?lez-Wippler
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9781567183290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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When the Yoruba of West Africa were brought to Cuba as slaves, they preserved their religious heritage by disguising their gods as Catholic saints and worshiping them in secret. The resulting religion is Santería, a blend of primitive magic and Catholicism now practiced by an estimated five million Hispanic Americans. Blending informed study with her personal experience, González-Wippler describes Santería¿s pantheon of gods ("orishas "); the priests ("santeros" ); the divining shells used to consult the gods (the "Diloggún" ) and the herbal potions prepared as medicinal cures and for magic ("Ewe ) "as well as controversial ceremonies-including animal sacrifice. She has obtained remarkable photographs and interviews with Santería leaders that highlight aspects of the religion rarely revealed to nonbelievers. This book satisfies the need for knowledge of this expanding religious force that links its devotees in America to a spiritual wisdom seemingly lost in modern society.
Author: Abu Shardow Abarry
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566394031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Organized by major themes—such as creation stories, and resistance to oppression—this collection gather works of imagination, politics and history, religion, and culture from many societies and across recorded time. Asante and Abarry marshal together ancient, anonymous writers whose texts were originally written on stone and papyri and the well-known public figures of more recent times whose spoken and written words have shaped the intellectual history of the diaspora. Within this remarkably wide-ranging volume are such sources as prayers and praise songs from ancient Kemet and Ethiopia along with African American spirituals; political commentary from C.L.R. James, Malcolm X, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Joseph Nyerere; stirring calls for social justice from David Walker, Abdias Nacimento, Franzo Fanon, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Featuring newly translated texts and ocuments published for the first time, the volume also includes an African chronology, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. With this landmark book, Asante and Abarry offer a major contribution to the ongoing debates on defining the African canon. Author note:Molefi Kete Asanteis Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Temple University and author of several books, includingThe Afrocentric Idea(Temple) andThe Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans.Abu S. Abarryis Assistant Chair of African American Studies at Temple University.
Author: Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802849731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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A guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone. Santería is a religion with Afro-Cuban roots, rising out of the cultural clash between the Yoruba people of West Africa and the Spanish Catholics who brought them to the Americas as slaves. With the exile of thousands of Cubans after Castro's revolution in 1959, Santería came to the United States, where it is gradually coming to be recognized as a legitimate faith tradition, one about which most people in America's mainstream know very little. De La Torre explains the worldview, myths, rituals, and history of Santería, and discusses what role the religion typically plays in the life of its practitioners as well as the cultural influence it continues to exert in Latin American communities today.--From publisher description.
Author: Fá'lokun Fatunmbi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Obatala is the Spirit of the Chief of the White Cloth in the West African religious tradition called Ifá. The power of Obatala is described by Ifá as one of many Spiritual Forces in Nature which are called Orisha. There are a large number of Orisha, and each Orisha has its own awo (Mysteries of Nature). The word Obatala is the name given to describe a complex convergence of Spiritual Forces that are key elements in the Ifá concept of consciousness. Those Spiritual Forces that form the foundation of Obatala's role in the Spirit Realm relate to the movement between dynamics and form as it exists throughout the universe. According to Ifá, dynamics and form represent the polarity between the Forces of expansion and contraction. Together these Forces create light and darkness, and it is Obatala who brings this into being.
Author: Ócha'ni Lele
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892819126
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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The first book on Santer�s holiest divination system, the Diloggun. Explores the lore surrounding this mysterious oracle, the living Bible of one of the world's fastest growing faiths. Examines each family of " odu" and how their actions affect the spiritual development of the individual. An indispensable guide to the mysteries of the orishas.
Author: Dr Winmilawe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983931898
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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From the ancient stories of the West African Yoruba people comes the colorful children's picture book "Obatala's Daughter Discovers True Friends." Obatala encourages his daughter Kemi to look for friends with good character. She has an exciting journey in which she learns that being superficial can bring trouble. However, with clarity and courage Kemi finds joy at last. The plot, the images and even some Yoruba vocabulary will dazzle young and older readers alike! This is the second book in the internationally renowned 'Yoruba Orisa Children's Series'. The first book is "Shango's Son."
