Lineage is one of the most important things in all of spirituality, not just this tradition. The subject of lineage is often discussed but in passing, its not properly emphasized or understood. It is due to this issue that so many people find themselves in terrible situations as elders and as god children of elders
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Palo Mayombe
From an Nkisi Malongo perspective, just about everything people think they know about Sirens is wrong. The general public opinion is that Sirens are wildly seductive, promiscuous women that lure men to the “abyss” aka into love, destruction or both. There is no other context as to how or why they came to this conclusion.
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There are so many reasons to not want to learn spirituality from random people or from books with unknown sources, some of them are quite obvious and others are only known if you go deeper into thought about the concept. In almost every circumstance this is a bad practice because traditional religions are structured in
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Palo Mayombe
There is entirely too many lies circulating the internet about the tradition informally called Palo Mayombe. The traditions proper name is Nkisi Malongo, which translates to sacred medicine in distant lands. This traditional religion that many falsely claim to be of Cuban origin is native to Central Africa, specifically what we know to be the
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Cowrie Shells are commonly understood as a thing that does not exist within Palo Mayombe but does exist within Lucumi.Even to the extent where several practitioners of both traditions have stated with great conviction as if it were a fact.I have not publicly spoken up on this subject before because it felt as though I
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Theres a saying in Nkisi Malongo, “Los reyes descalzos” or “The Barefoot Kings.” This saying was in reference to Bakongo. There are two main reasons I have personally heard behind the saying but I’m sure there are others as we don’t all have the same lineages and stories. One involved Cuba and another was before
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Plants and Animals are two sides to the same coin: Life. Plants are indeed living creatures and as such, they too have responses to things you would not believe they have responses for. Plants can see, plants can feel, and plants can hear. All of these things have been proven scientifically over a course of
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Palo Mayombe, Plants
In spiritual warfare it is common for someone that really knows what they’re doing to target your loved ones when they want to actually hurt you. Elders understood this and had tricks to handle the unlikely scenario of people wanting to break up successful couples and/or marriages. These tricks were specifically made to lock the
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Elders are pillars of traditions, they embody the principles and are custodians of wisdom and history of traditions. They are undeniably a necessary and critical part of these traditions. Tradition without history is not tradition, it is simply something that will be. See, every living thing must have origins; plants have roots and people have
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