Category: Vodun, Hoodoo and Yoruba
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Easy Access Planetary Herbs
A lot of spells often require strange herbs that you’re unlikely to have in your kitchen or garden. So for a newby, this means getting started involves buying loads of herbs that you don’t have or going out foraging for them and trying to identify them in the wild. Either way, that gate keeps the…
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Itan
In the Yoruba region of Africa this is the Oral traditions of story telling where the Pitaki are told. Sometimes the deeds of a certain person became so well known they became part of the Itan, which often led to certain spirits becoming venerated as Saints or Gods. The most common deities to feature in…
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What is a pitaki?
This term is normally associated with African diaspora traditions such as Yoruba spirituality like Santeria. A pitaki is a story which conveys the mythology of a spirit in these traditions. For example a pitaki might speak of Olodumare (a supreme god) giving Eshu Elegbara (or Elegua) keys to past and future to convey this spirits…