Ceiba Pentandra (Kapok Tree) Araba

Ceiba Pentandra (Kapok Tree) Araba

Okana Meji did  some important work before departing to earth.

His name was Kon Kon Okonron loun Okoron Nihin

He performed divination for Araba (Kapok, Ceiba pentandra) and Iroko(African Teak tree)

Before these two migrated to earth from heaven, these two were cats and dogs never agreeing on any one subject.

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Base of a Kapok Tree. 

at that time Iroko was so powerful and feared that no one would dare consider cutting this tree for any purpose.

Kapok at Edison Estates Naples Florida

This wormed Iroko a false sense of pride. Okana Meji performed the divination,Odu unfolded it's wisdom and both Iroko and Araba were instructed to offer

Esu ( Destiny) an offering at Esu shrine the offering of 1 Goat, 2 Roosters, 1 hatchet,1 machete. Kola nuts, 1 Rat

Araba made the offerings but Iroko Refused, allowing his ego to feed his superficial false pride, believing “Who would dare attempt to harm the great Iroko”

On one standpoint Iroko was powerful and strong, on the other Iroko was the meeting point of the Ancestors of the night.

Esu accepted Araba's offering. So Began the destruction of Iroko.  Esu devised a plan to defame the importance and strength of Iroko.  Esu transformed himself as a carpenter lumber jack, at the same time rotted the wood doors and floors, tools of the villagers. Then gathered the lumberers from the village, headed into the forest. While walking into the forest, Esu convinced the villagers that the other trees were of low quality for the use of doors or flooring, for this same reason there current situations had lead them to search for new lumber.

When they reached the forest opening, Iroko stood before them. A Massive vertical tree that reached toward the sky, it seem as Iroko had no limit.  The lumberers began to refuse to pass, Esu insists “Oh that's the best wood for your doors of your homes and flooring.  He grab his machete and began to cut Iroko, the villages began to lose fear and joined in. Sawing away at the base of the trunk. 

At a distance Araba heard and felt a great row a thunderous boom. When he heard and felt the destruction, he knew it could only be one thing in the forest that could produce such a noise, 

Iroko has fallen. 

Araba Praised Okana Meji and the wisdom of Odu. Araba understood that it was Iroko's False Pride and negativity that cause Iroko to loose his status, becoming a victim of Esu's ability to make Orisa,man or nature see things Esu's way.

It is advised when Okana-Meji opens on the divining mat or the Divining tray, that the consultant has a powerful tall enemy, that wishes him harm.  He/she should offer Esu Ebbo not to only triumph but maintain his dignity in the community or his place or work.

Fresh water

We are changing the way the followers of the Yoruba Americana' practice spiritual traditions, we encourage expression with a modern outlook, applying the principles of sociology,psychology and science to enhance this beautiful belief system. I won't apply the word ''religion'' to this new form of thinking, many readers as yourself see religion as a trap, or a way to control others and here at Santo Products blog we value the abilities of freedom as even God of the old testaments expressed, We are FREE, Born FREE to choose!
Our desire is to continue this freedom although there maybe those that wish to confine themselves with rules of do's and don'ts.  I will only honor freedom with traditional customs. If it smells like repression I will shout it out as the old Ball and Chain Theory. Join us for a adventure of spiritual yoruba freedoms with no holds bars, just magic at a higher conscience.
We are offering you "Fresh-water", omi ti ko ni iyo ninu re or said omi-mimu.

The customary way in the cuban tradition of orisha worship covens, use the expression " omi tutu" which is fresh water, but what was forgotten is that the yoruba language is three dimensional unlike english or spanish. Many state that the language was lost, or bits remain, so 99 percent of followers still use this slang or we can change.
 We can continue with this error or we now can correct the mistakes of our forefathers. One of Oprah Winfrey's sayings that's a favorite of mine is "when you know better, you do better".
Now that I have access to yoruba translations, and the valuable resource the internet offers us, there is no reason to continue in this ignorance. This fresh knowledge, the correct grammar is what I offer as fresh water. Drink if you are thirsty, drink now clean clear information that is fluide to your soul and body. To honor higher understanding I drink from the goblet of knowledge for it's my freedom from enslavement.
(To Seek, Sought, wa-kiri,)Truth, otito, ododo.

Yemaya Mother of fish

Yemaya

is a deity of great importance in the community, first she is a giving mother of immense abundance. Yemaya is beautiful in appearance with a strong character.  One of the concepts she inspires in me as I recall her image, my Idea of this deity is

“A WOMAN’S WORTH”, “A FEMINIST” a woman that strongly believes she can do for herself, With the notion of “if my counterpart is not providing for me, I will do for myself and us.This is learned in the odu.  She teaches the lesson’ I can do anything a man can, I achieve things men can never possess, Yemaya holds Title of two leadership Shawls’ entitling her to a status of two authorities, an ability of Tribal Title that no man can own.   Yemaya's eternal element  represents her well, its abundance in size, with a gracious gratitude,its sternness and embodiment  that defies all other aspects of nature, It is able to reclaim more or less as it choices. This element is a true enigma, it retains secrets never to see the light of day again.  The moon,sun, and stars play a grand role on Yemaya and her personality, these are symbols of her power, or seals of her creative force. I could write more on these seals, just know that they have meaning and are useful in their understanding, influencing yemaya in rituals.

Here is an example of a seal of yemaya

yemaya is the daughter of the great all powerful Olokun. yemaya has many avatars as seven daughters of Olokun, Olokun sent forth all of his daughters to the world but kept one as his overseer of the commercial marina while Olokun retains the depths of the Sea and rivers, the “darkness within them”

Mayalewo is her name in this avatar state. Mayalewo controls the commercial ports, the traffic of the sea’s transportation of goods, life necessities from one of her coasts to another. When Yemaya becomes abused,Yemaya patience can overlook delinquency of her children and followers or the men and women that traffic through her realm. When Yemaya patience is abused, expect nothing less than a Tsunami, yemaya can be explicit of her authority at any given moment.  Yemaya's anger is ferocious,savage,vicious, we can attempt to pacify her, but try to tell the ocean to stop moving! Yemaya’s angry at this coast, yet blue skies on the other coast.  Yemaya’s character is a woman that knows life through a different view. she has suffered the loss of her one and true beloved Orishaoko, she has loved many, but Orisaoko is her other half, observe a world Globe, 70%water,30% land. Which also demonstrates her position in life as a woman,in her relationship with her counterpart Orisha oko This 70% demonstrates yemaya's true position in life her value to all life on this earth. It also demonstrates Yemaya role in her community, this surely displays really how much a woman/mother/caregiver (Yemaya) true importance is ( we just can not live without a woman (yemaya) at our side.

Yemaya is the embodiment of an odu, The odu that expresses itself as Odi Meji, a symbol of femmient organs, Egoism! Salvation! Creation! That lIfe has consequences that are circumscribe. These are the nouns it creates, these nouns are born in odi meji.

1 The female organs and genderfication  2 The color Black  3 variegated colors for women yellow and red

4 The sea 5 Whales, chickens, goats, rats, fish of the sea, the caiman, the snails, Almiqui 6 Maize, Pumpkin 7 The blood cell 8 Malice 9  Law of karma. 10 The ere (grains and vegetables). 11 That humans wear shoes. 12  Ikofa The eshanile. 13  Oshun yumi. 14  Dolls. 15  Vice oral sex. 16 Eran, the gigantic drum of Ifa. 17  Aruye, Fear. 18  Igbodun The corner of the Room

There are the legends of Odi meji which I will add to a different post. It is these characteristics that we channel when we connect with Yemaya.  That includes the abilities for a mother to invoke Ifa, for assistance to save her child, as she did in ogunda-odi(3-7). giving mothers the abilities to stand before any diviner for a child in jeopardy.

You can use some of these herbs to work with Yemaya in offerings and spell casting, I will introduce some Youtubes for this purpose. Here is a small list of some of her favorite herbs she collected at the battle shango had with Osain.

Yemaya Favorite Herbs to name a few:

1.Blue Plumbago

2.Black eye peas

3.Purple Basil

4.Sweet Peppers

5.Wandering Jew

6.Culantro

7.Ragweed

8.Corchorus

9.Lonchocarpus

10.water hyacinth

11. WaterMelon

Please feel free to comment or ask any question for there are no wrong questions for anything forbidden in my realm.

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