Yo: goats and chickens, preferably white hens, not cats. Ever try getting
rubbed with a live cat? Would cleanse one of a lot more than black
magic--flayed in the name of Oshun.
My experience is with santeria, the Cuban expression of the same Yoruba
religion. Nobody misses church--it's too interesting, not to mention the rum.
Mark
At 12:02 PM 5/14/2005, you wrote:
>I tend to agree with the unaccountable 5% there, too - I once went to a
>candomblé ceremony in Salvador... After around an hour of weird chanting,
>drumming & dancing - the priestess was a middle-aged woman of unbelievable
>anim(al)istic power - I was zombified (an inexpressible feeling) up to my
>neck, when the tour guide came in & roughly interrupted the ceremony to
>take us to what they thought was a more touristically acceptable venue,
>like being torn away from a 2nd century Gnostic rite to go to a Billy
>Graham meeting. Otherwise I might have gone into a foaming trance & ended
>up as an initiate myself, as a Salvadorian friend of ours & expert in the
>field tells me. Fate put me here, in Crock Valley, instead of slaughtering
>cocks in Brazil.
>Crowley was on drugs all the time, anyone can do that.
>Well, I have to go now, time to sacrifice to my orisha. Lots of stray cats
>round here...
>jaywalker
>
>
>Robin Hamilton wrote:
>
>>>Nothing happens to the builder, of
>>>course, because he doesn't believe in voodoo.
>>
>>I 95% agree but I just *slightly* wonder. Think of Alasteir Crowley.
>>
>>Robin
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