#african traditional religons

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Hoodoo WitchTips: Divination🔮✨

Here are some quick but powerful protective tips to help with divination when working with tarot, oracle, bones & more. 
Divination is still a form of labor, so it’s important to ground yourself and even do a bit of light healing work afterwords. It’s so easy to do divination most people forget or don’t know about these simple spiritual hygiene tips. Good spiritual hygiene, protection and healing is important during divination because you are tapping into unknown energies. 
Doing these small things routinely, can help you keep your clarity of mind and even possibly prevent psychosis or trigger other mental health issues.

While Hoodoo is a closed practice, the MAJORITY of tips/tricks are present in many cultures and are not Hoodoo specific, with the exception of the usage of Florida & Kananga Water. Non Hoodoo, Brujeria or ATR practitioners can use holy or blessed pagan water as a substitute.

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Oh boy! I sure do love learning about traditional african religons! Look at this Nigerian Ijaw mask of a water spirit used for traditional religous purposes!

I sure do hope that Americans don't use this mask as a symbol of evil magic!

Fuck

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Is a Reactionary polemic the cause of fear & hatred against non western religons? 2nd migrants & religion

The white conservative polemic is that the migrant communities refuse to integrate into majority UK culture & their religious practices are not in line with Britain’s[1].  The most visible migrant community being the Pakistani Muslim communities in the North of England. Their relative success only has ingrained resentment from the white English population[2][3]. The white English in conflict with the northern England Muslim population are mainly from those who worked in the semi-skilled manual and factory jobs[4], based in the ex-Mill Towns of the north of England.  

When a migrant arrives in any country, they are not a part of, the first thing they will do is too seek out people with a similar language, ethnicity, culture & religious practice  It is not out of desire of deliberate segregation, that is the outsider’s supposed mutual hostility of the host countries culture.   This desire is borne out of the need for safety. Outsiders are labelled with curiosity, hostile indifference, or outright open hostility[5].

The hostility varies form intolerance, outright violence to political opportunism. Each one presents different levels of danger to 1st generation migrants and us 2nd , 3rd generation descendants. Even amongst the political white liberals, Margaret Hodge a senior MP implied that poor whites suffer, because they are second to migrant families[6][7]. That is one of the may problems we as black people are up against. Even our representatives use their white privilege and legal powers to scapegoat black and brown people of a situation, which is poverty & government neglect, that is not their fault. Her comments were post 9/11 & 4 years into a war. With hindsight the 2 wars have polarised the religion,  ethnicity and politics. The racist arguments of the 1960’s & 70 that immigrants will take housing and jobs while the majority white working population will lose are directly comparable to the present day one’s that say the poor white population lose out to a prosperous ethnic minority population[8].

Unless that person is exceptionally rich or talented[9][10]( for example world class musicians) who are more socially accepted based on money and popularity[11], ordinary outsiders must contend with starting as a nobody. Socially laden epitaphs are ascribed to these outsiders, even the utilitarian “migrant” & “immigrant” would be given a negative spin with connotations[12]. The migrant communities will congregate in together in what they consider safe spaces away from massed mob violence of the increasingly majority population[13]. There is not only majority against minority violence, but also minority against minority violence, with this perceived danger, people would gravitate towards protective communities and cultural & their religious spaces.

 Caribbean people found their community in the local churches they set up when they first arrived in Britain[14],  and still maintain to this present day. By free choice or given no option but to live in the cities, First generation migrant Caribbean & African Black people had no other option other than to reside in the inner cities for Black Britain and the suburbs (banlieue) in France.  

Politics, living space and religion are intersectional and always coincide. Living space and religion are in the communities in the North of England where British Muslims live together primarily for safety as well as solidarity. With British Muslims, their perception/belief of Islam as a system within itself has legitimised the divide in hostile spaces.  

Migration to the Uk is the result of government policy and the post-colonial need for commercial labour.  The religions of the migrant communities have attempted to maintain the traditional practices of their original countries. This is apparent with the Pakistani Muslim community in the North of England.

The injustices inflicted upon  brown peoples is historical and is worsening at this present time. In addition, racial and religious injustices have always been set against poor whites.  

[1] Sally Tomlinson (2018) Enoch Powell, empires, immigrants and education, Race Ethnicity and Education, 21:1, 1-14, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2017.1365055  

[2] The Casey Review A review into opportunity and integration Dame Louise Casey DBE CB.   https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/575973/The_Casey_Review_Report.pdf  

[3] Community cohesion: the views of white working-class communities Professor Harris Beider  https://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/default/files/jrf/migrated/files/working-class-community-cohesion-full.pdf  

[4] https://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/publications/pdfs/WhoCaresAboutTheWhiteWorkingClass-2009.pdf    Runnymede Trust.  

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXnSujE3NC4    Minorities in Britain - The Pakistani Community (1966). Film extracts from a programme examining the Pakistani community in Britain, taken from a 1966 BBC2 series on Minorities in Britain. Narrated by Zaynab Dahya and produced by Michael Bunce. First broadcast on BBC2 at 7.30pm on Monday 27th June 1966.

[6] Kjartan Páll Sveinsson:7   Runnymede Trust. The Poor whites and Multiculturalism: Is There Space for a Progressive Agenda?  Who Cares about the White Working Class? :7

[7] Ibid: “…“should look at policies where the legitimate

sense of entitlement felt by the indigenous family

overrides the legitimate need demonstrated by

the new migrants”

[8] ibid

[9] http://www.tracesproject.org/  An untold history of contributions to arts and culture from men and women who have sought safety in the UK from conflict and persecution.  

[10] http://www.tracesproject.org/hong-dam/  Hong’s artistic expression is rooted in her experience as an eight-year-old girl

[11] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shyamanthaasokan/meet-the-uk-artists-who-came-here-as-migrants-and-refugees   Shyamantha Asokan.(08/05/15).  Buzzfeed News. Meet the U.K. Artists Who Came Here as Immigrants.

[12]     Camila Ruz. BBC News Magazine. (28/08/2015)   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34061097  

[13] Warwick University. Modern Records Centre. (11/03/20). Notting Hill Riots 1959. https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/studying/docs/racism/riots    

[14] https://unherd.com/2018/05/windrush-generation-kept-faith/     KATIE HARRISON.  How the Windrush generation kept their faith

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The Vodou Files

Diddy & his entitlement an blatant disrespect of Lwa Ezili Dantor/Black Madonna

For all intent and purposes, the following information is alleged and for entertainment only.

In year of 2024, it’s no secret that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a polarizing figure. After his recent arrest and federal indictment this September on charges of s*x trafficking and more, and with multiple lawsuits alleging a multitude of abuses against men and women, this cannot be denied.

Let’s get into the possible spiritual implications of his recent arrest. In 2017 Diddy tattooed the Black Madonna aka Ezili Dantor on his back, for protection. The Black Madonna syncretism is often been used in Vodou to represent the Lwa Dantor.

Here’s a rending of the photo of Ezili that he seems to have taken inspiration from for his tattoo.

Ezili Dantor is the patroness and holy mother of Haiti. She is known as a protector of women and children, and was one of the petro or war spirits who were instrumental in the Haitian Revolution of 1804, allowing the Haitians to lead the first successful slave uprising. She assisted with giving them the strength in battle to defeat their colonizers and inspired others to resistance in the Diaspora. France went bankrupt during the Haitian revolution and had to sell off their land to pay off the massive debt this caused, spurring the Louisiana purchase and leading to creation of America as we know it, today. These acres of land make up the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, North & South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming and Montana. There would be no American Independence, if it hadn’t been for the Haiti.

While Ezili does not own my head, I know her children. They are usually women who are family matriarchs and mothers, who are incredibly kind, patient and strong and actively involved in their communities. They tend to be well respected within their communities and usually involved in community activism to varying degrees. They generally have a pleasant disposition but can be dangerous fighters when challenged spiritually and physically. They make great leaders and can be very wise. It is common for children of certain Lwa to take on similar traits of said Lwa & I believe this aspect can especially be seen in her children, who she claims. While I do not have her in my court, I do carry her sister aspect the darker, merciless and vengeful Le Rouge.

The Ezili are a powerful class of spirits within the Vodou pantheon. Ezili Dantor is an example of a very powerful spirit who can shift fate and reality. She is the peaceful mother but can exhibit extremely controlled violence when necessary, a triumphant warrior queen personified. She does not take disrespect or injustice lightly.

Diddy invoking her essence and protection, with this tattoo while assaulting and harming people continuously would draw her ire, wrath and ultimate disrespect. Some think someone recommended he do this to hasten his downfall or he did this out of pure stupidity.

Others of the Catholic faith, see it as the Holy Mother, the Blessed Black Madonna looking out for her children and protecting them.

Either way it’s clear the drums of justice have begun to beat for Diddy and it’s time for him to account for what he has done.

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In light of a tragedy involving Mystic Lipstick aka Akoya, here are few quick witch tips that are invaluable for practitioners of any skill level.

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