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Babies and bathwater

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about the misdeeds of others

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from the stupidity and greed of others

If cowards won't come clean there is no judge and jury

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A Ritual To Invoke Mami Wata (Goddess)

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There is additional evidence that Xɛbyoso (Xeviosso, Hevioso, Khebioso…) and/or Shango persisted in Mississippi River Valley Voudou.

In Slave Religion, Albert J. Raboteau describes four noteworthy clues:

…The way in which bits of African faith and practice persisted in folk beliefs and customs, though their original meaning had been lost, is evident in the following account from the New Orleans Times-Democrat of August 5, 1888. During a thunderstorm elderly Tante Dolores anxiously searched the house for some object. Not finding it, she ran to the yard. According to the article,

Hither and thither she ran in rapid quest, until at last she stumbled upon the object of her search, no less a thing than an axe for chopping wood…a bright expression of joy irradiated her face. 

Seizing the ax and raising it over her head, “she made pass after pass in the very face of the rushing current, as if chopping some invisible thing in twain.” When the wind suddenly abated she returned to the house in triumph, stating that it never failed her if she “jest got there in time enough.”91

A similar custom among Mississippi black folk was noted by Puckett: 

…foreign to European thought is the Southern Negro custom of going out into the yard and chopping up the ground with an ax when a storm threatens. This is supposed to “cut de storm in two” and so stop it. Others stick a spade in the ground to split the cloud, or simply place an axe in the corner of the house.”92

The use of the ax as an antidote to the storm is significant, since the sacred emblem of the West African god of thunder and lightning, Shango, is an ax; but equally significant is the fact that the African theological background has disappeared and what remains is a folk custom. There is perhaps a trace of the thunderstones hurled by Shango in the belief, as told to Puckett by an old “conjure doctor” in Mississippi, that “the Indian arrowheads often found in the locality were not made by man at all, but were fashioned by God out of thunder and lightning,”93 It was also a common saying in New Orleans “that when it thunders, Le Bon Dieu is rolling his stones.”94

SOURCE: Raboteau, Albert J. Slave religion: The" invisible institution" in the antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. pp. 80-81

Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/slavereligioninv00rabo/page/80/mode/2up? 

While Raboteau connects these customs to the orisa Shango, connections can also be drawn to the vodun Xɛbyoso.

Note the similarity between the above and Ellis’ description:

On the Slave Coast, as is generally the case elsewhere, flint implements of the Stone Age are believed to be thunderbolts, and are consequently called so-kpe, (kpe stone) . After a building has been struck by lightning, the priests of Khebioso, who at once run to the spot to demand that the inmates should make amends for the evident offence they have given their god, almost invariably produce a flint arrowhead, or axe, which they of course bring with them, but pretend to have found in or near the building. As Dr. Tylor says, the fact that siliceous stones actually produce flash when struck, gives a key to the widespread belief that flint implements are thunderbolts .

SOURCE: Ellis, Alfred Burdon. The Eʻwe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Languages, &c. United Kingdom, Chapman and Hall, limited, 1890. p. 38 Retrieved from: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_E%CA%BBwe_speaking_Peoples_of_the_Slave/Ak9M8SXJlekC?hl=en&gbpv=0 

Many African Americans in the South descend from the Fon/Ewe, who worshiped the vodun rather than the orisa. Xɛbyoso is a counterpart to Shango, which is why they are similar to each other and are both associated with axes. Since African Americans descend from both the Yoruba and the Fon/Ewe, it’s probably pointless to identify this custom with a “pure” form of Xɛbyoso or Shango; both were likely important to the descendants of West Africans.

Another intriguing clue comes from Mary Alicia Owen’s Voodoo Tales, in which she describes folklore from Missouri Voudou. One of the recurring mythological figures is “T’undeh-Buhd” - Thunder-Bird; Owen posits that Thunder-Bird originates in the Algonquin spirit of the storm, “A great eagle”. 

SOURCE: Owen, Mary Alicia. Voodoo Tales: As Told Among the Negroes of the Southwest. United States, Putnam's Sons, 1893. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Voodoo_Tales/H_kLAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 

Owen argues that some of the folklore of Missouri Voudou was transmitted from the Algonquin legends of New England, noting several similarities between the two. However, there are also similarities between the description of Thunder-Bird and Xɛbyoso.

Pictured: Thunderbird and Sisiutl Headdress by Kwakwaka'wakw artist Bill Henderson. The Kwakwaka'wakw Thunderbird is likened to Xɛbyoso.

Although I have been writing it as “Xeviosso”, this is not the correct spelling/pronunciation. In his description of Vodun of the Maxi region of Benin, Cossi Augustin Ahoga explains that one of these two pronunciations is correct: 

a. Xɛbyoso

Xɛ / byo / so

Oiseau / être agile, être prompt / foudre

L’oiseau agile ou prompt pour faire de la foudre

b. Xɛbyɔ́so

Xɛ / byɔ́ / so

Oiseau / demander / foudre

L’oiseau demande avant d’envoyer la foudre 

SOURCE: Ahoga, Cossi Augustin. Vers un modèle africain de dialogue interreligieux: Le cas de Vodun Xɛbyoso et de l’Église des Assemblées de Dieu dans la région Maxi au Bénin. United Kingdom, Langham Creative Projects, 2023. 

Ahoga further explains the connection between Xɛbyoso (Xevioso) and the bird, likening the vodun to indigenous deities (namely, the Zuni Ahayuta and the Kwakwaka'wakw Thunderbird):

…Il se dégage de là deux lexèmes identiques au niveau de toutes les définitions : Xɛ (oiseau) et So (foudre) autour desquels se construit la quintessence de chaque nom. 

Xɛ (oiseau) se comprend au sens métaphorique, qui est un principe de la loi d’analogie dans la religion. Cela rappelle la même préfiguration chez les Indiens et les Kwakiutl où les dieux « Ahayuta » et « Amoncas » sont ailés, « Oiseau de Tonnerre »…

TRANSLATION: 

…It is from here that two identical lexemes emerge from all definitions: Xɛ (bird) and So (lightning), around which the quintessence of each name is constructed.

Xɛ (bird) is understood in the metaphorical sense, which is a principle of analogy in the religion. This recalls the same prefiguration among the Indians and the Kwakiutl where the gods "Ahayuta" and "Amoncas" are winged, "Thunderbird"...

SOURCE: Ahoga, Cossi Augustin. Vers un modèle africain de dialogue interreligieux: Le cas de Vodun Xɛbyoso et de l’Église des Assemblées de Dieu dans la région Maxi au Bénin. United Kingdom, Langham Creative Projects, 2023. 

Ahoga goes on to describe the origin myth of Xebyoso (Xevioso), which includes the following excerpt: 

Quand le monde fut créé, la terre et tout ce qui s’y trouve furent créés. La terre avait la forme d’une calebasse à laquelle manquait le couvercle. Xɛbyoso fut le couvercle que Sɛgbo-Lisa créa pour parfaire le monde…

…Xɛbyoso acquit de Sɛgbo-Lisa une force redoutable, une force qui le métamorphosa en un oiseau pyrogène pour qu’il fût en mesure de parcourir terres et airs, brousses et forêts, et même mers. Sɛgbo-Lisa le dota également d’une arme redoutable, une arme en forme d’une hache néolithique, Sosyͻvi, que Xɛbyoso emporta au monde. Pour le châtiment des coupables, Xɛbyoso la lançait à ses cibles pour les foudroyer, tuant et humains et animaux, abattant et arbres et lianes…

TRANSLATION: 

When the world was created, the earth and all upon it were created. The earth had the form of a calabash with a missing cover. Xɛbyoso was the cover that Segbo-Lisa created to perfect the world…

…Xɛbyoso acquired from Segbo-Lisa a formidable power, a power that transformed him into a firebird for him to be able to traverse land and air, brushes and forests, and even the seas. Segbo-Lisa likewise gave him a formidable weapon, a weapon in the form of a neolithic axe, Sosyͻvi, that Xɛbyoso carries to the world. For punishing the guilty, Xɛbyoso throws it as his targets to strike them down, killing humans and animals, felling trees and vines…

SOURCE: Ahoga, Cossi Augustin. Vers un modèle africain de dialogue interreligieux: Le cas de Vodun Xɛbyoso et de l’Église des Assemblées de Dieu dans la région Maxi au Bénin. United Kingdom, Langham Creative Projects, 2023.

A similar description is provided by Ellis, who appears to have misunderstood the meaning of Khebioso (Xɛbyoso) but correctly identified his association with the bird. Much like Ahoga, Ellis also notes the similarity with indigenous belief systems:

The name Khebioso is compounded of khe (bird) , bi (to let go light, or throw out light) , and so ( fire) , so that it literally means the bird, or bird-like creature, that throws out fire. As the thunder- cloud rolls along in khe-kheme, "the free-air region ," and as that region can, to the native mind, only be traversed by birds , the Ewe- speaking negroes imagine that Khebioso is a flying god, who partakes in some way of the nature of a bird. The general idea seems to be that Khebioso is a bird -like creature, hidden in the midst of the black thunder-cloud, from which he casts out the lightning ; and by some, the crash of the thunder is believed to be the flapping of his enormous wings. This belief in the lightning-god being bird- like does not stand alone. The Mandans of North America believed that lightning and thunder were caused by the flashing eyes and flapping wings of the terrible Heaven-bird, and the Tupi tribes of Brazil hold similar views.

SOURCE: Ellis, Alfred Burdon. The Eʻwe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Languages, &c. United Kingdom, Chapman and Hall, limited, 1890. p. 37 Retrieved from: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_E%CA%BBwe_speaking_Peoples_of_the_Slave/Ak9M8SXJlekC?hl=en&gbpv=0 

This is just a theory, but the Thunder-Bird of Missouri Voudou might also have a connection to Xɛbyoso (Xebioso). 

SOURCES CITED BY RABOTEAU IN SLAVE RELIGION: 

91.  Raboteau’s description of Tante Dolores can be found in Gumbo Ya-Ya, where Tallant erroneously accuses Dolores of “witchcraft”: Tallant, Robert, and Lyle Saxon. Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1945. p. 250 Retrieved from: 

92. FROM: Puckett, Newbell Niles. Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro. United Kingdom, University of North Carolina Press, 1926. p. 320. Retrieved from: https://archive.org/details/folkbeliefsofsou00puck/page/320/mode/2up 

Even more foreign to European thought is the Southern Negro custom of going out into the yard and chopping up the ground with an ax when a storm threatens. This is supposed to "cut de storm in two" and so stop it. 4 Others stick a spade in the ground to split the cloud, 5 or simply place an ax in the corner of the house. 6

93. FROM: Puckett, Newbell Niles. Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro. United Kingdom, University of North Carolina Press, 1926. p. 315 Retrieved from: https://archive.org/details/folkbeliefsofsou00puck/page/n349/mode/2up 

One old conjure-doctor in Mississippi told me that the Indian arrowheads often found in the locality were not made by man at all, but were fashioned by God out of thunder and lightning. To use one for good luck, strike a spark from it with your knife (if the sparks fly readily you will know that you have a good knife) and let the spark fall upon a piece of powdered punk. Let the punk smoulder into ashes, which are to be wrapped in a piece of newspaper and carried with you always for good luck. 7

Puckett’s note 7 cites: Owen, Mary A. Among the Voodoos, I. F. L. C. (1891) p. 258 94. The saying “when it thunders, Le Bon Dieu is rolling his stones” is found in Gumbo Ya-Ya: Tallant, Robert, and Lyle Saxon. Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1945. p. 557. Retrieved from: https://archive.org/details/gumboyaya00louirich/page/556/mode/2up? 

DID BETSY TOLEDANO WORSHIP HEVIOSO? 

Représentation du Hèviosso au Musée Honmè

When the priestess Betsy Toledano was arrested in 1850, the police discovered stones (described as “flintstones” and “pebbles”) that were said to control lightning.

“...They found in one of the rooms a kind of chapel fitted up, the walls hung round with colored prints of the saints, etc., and a number of bowls upon the altar, containing stones varying from the size of gravel to the largest “pavers.” Goblets and vases filled with unknown liquids had also their place. A number of colored women were present, who escaped. Betsy Toledano, the chief priestess of the heathen temple, stoutly defended the ceremonies from any wrong construction; said that its signs and symbols were derived from the mother-land, and that the incantations were harmless; that the rocks in question were intended to protect the building from lightning, and that by placing them in water during a storm they acted as non-conductors for the dangerous element. The woman also exhibited a very curiously wrought necklace of shells which had been brought from the western coast of Africa by her grandmother, and which could influence the clerk of the weather to such an extent that he could not resist her application for rain when she insisted upon a genial shower…”

SOURCE: “The Rites of Voudou” The Daily Crescent. (New Orleans, LA) 31 Jul. 1850, p. 3. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015378/1850-07-31/ed-1/?sp=3

"...Betsy then went on to explain cases of sundry ominous looking vessels containing pebbles, flintstones, shells, horse-hair, curious aprons, colors, banners, &c., &c. Besides these, there were vases filled with a liquid, neither palatable nor of the odor of sanctity. And then Betsy had a necklace of strange shells and rainbow-tinted beads, which was not without its use in the craft of Voudouism. The necklace was all-potent in calling rain down on the parched earth, in seasons of drought, and the flint and pebble-stones, were for taming and turning aside the fiery shafts of "Heaven's artillery."…”

SOURCE: “Voudouism Unveiled” The Daily Delta  New Orleans, Louisiana •  Wed, Jul 31, 1850 Page 2. Retrieved from: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-delta-voudouism-unveiled/40979649/ 

The flintstones seem similar to sokpe - stones or flint implements associated with the lightning vodún Hevioso (Khebioso):

“On the Slave Coast, as is generally the case elsewhere, flint implements of the Stone Age are believed to be thunderbolts, and are consequently called so-kpe, (kpe = stone) . After a building has been struck by lightning, the priests of Khebioso, who at once run to the spot to demand that the inmates should make amends for the evident offence they have given their god, almost invariably produce a flint arrowhead, or axe, which they of course bring with them, but pretend to have found in or near the building. As Dr. Tylor says, the fact that siliceous stones actually produce a flash when struck, gives a key to the widespread belief that flint implements are thunderbolts.”

SOURCE: Ellis, Alfred Burdon. The Eʻwe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Languages, &c. United Kingdom, Chapman and Hall, limited, 1890. pp. 37-38. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_E%CA%BBwe_speaking_Peoples_of_the_Slave/ll-BAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 

The “pebbles” may or may not have also been sokpe. 

MUCH doubt exists as to the origin and use of the curious circular stones with holes bored through them which are well known to people living in the southern districts of the Gold Coast and Togoland. Geologically, they may be described as consisting of quartzite – usually an altered sandstone which is very common throughout the districts mentioned. That the hole found running through the two flat sides of each stone has been artificially made is obvious, but the precise manner in which this has been effected is as puzzle. As the holes are circular some form of boring has, apparently, been employed – each hole having been commenced from either side, and usually in the centre of the slightly flattened stone, and rapidly narrowing down the further the stone is penetrated until, in some cases, it is so small at the point where it meets the hole bored from the opposite side that a pin-head could not pass through it.

An examination of over 300 such stones shows that the average diameter is about 1 ⅗ inches, while that of the largest stone was found to be 2 ⅓ inches and of the smallest 1 ½ inches. Some of these stones have 3, 4, 5, or even 6-cornered edges but, in general, they are slightly flattened with smooth sides and a rounded edge. When two such stones are struck together they give a dull glow at the point of impact, but no sparks are emitted as in the case with flint….

East of the Volta River the stone is connected with one fetish only, viz., the So (or Hebieso, or Hevieso), the god of thunderstorms. Here the stone is called “Sokpe,” lit. stone of the god So– “kpe” meaning “stone” in the Eve language. This fetish is one of the four which, together, constitute the Yeve or Vodu cult which has spread to the Addah and Ouittah districts of the Gold Coast, and to southern Togoland from its original home in Dahomey. The uses to which the peoples of these countries now put the stones are as follows: – 

They are used medicinally for the cure of any illness. The stone is put into water and the patient may then, at once, wash therewith. This he must do on seven consecutive days, after which a cure should be effected. In the case of religious ceremonies connected with the Yeve cult a candidate for admission to the secrets of the faith is shown a pot of consecrated water, and then a number of articles of symbolic import to the members of the sect, including a “sokpe.” These articles are placed in the water and the “sokpe” is then taken out by a Yeve priest who addresses the candidate, explaining his obligations to the fetish, and after drawing the “sokpe” up the candidates back to the crown of his head, concludes by saying, “If you become faithless to Yeve, or betray his secrets to someone who is not a servant of Yeve, then Yeve will kill you in this manner”; the meaning intended to be conveyed being that Yeve will appear in the course of a thunderstorm and hurl a thunderbolt as his faithless protege, splitting him asunder.

SOURCE: Newlands, H. S. "An archaeological puzzle from West Africa." Journal of the Royal African Society (1919): 40-43. Retrieved from:

As the vodún Gu is derived from the orisa Ogun, the vodún Hevioso is derived from the orisa Shango. 

In Haiti, Hevioso became the lwa Kebyesou Danle, part of Rit DANWONMEN.

SEE: Hebblethwaite, Benjamin. A transatlantic history of Haitian Vodou: rasin figuier, rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2021.

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Me sonreíste, tuve que encontrarte

lindos apodos que podría nombrarte

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Te lo dijimos pero tenías que demostrarlo

Tu padre te deprime, desde la juventud

Tu madre no fui sensible, con tu inquietudes

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Mantener la esperanza, fue una virtud

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Fuiste objeto de burlas y deseo

Demasiado pronto sexualizado

no tenías amigos, estaba casado

____

Senorita, Rellenita

Gordita, (esa chica está buena)

Me encanta

Por eso me encantas

Más es más, ya veré

pesas tanto como un elefante bebé

Me encanta

Por eso me encantas

Responde tu pretas, sin caretas

cada escote es perfecto, con estas tetas

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Haré todo para que vivas de tu maleta

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Vivir por fe , vivir sin regretas

Siempre daré todo de mi en mis sujetas.

así como hago contigo, llora en mi pecho, Seré tu abrigo, dicho y hecho

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Nos damos la felicidad de la aceptación

Desde el principio, fue progresando

Notre relación, de mucho arraigado,

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Senorita, Rellenita

Gordita, (esa chica está buena)

Me encanta

Por eso me encantas

Más es más, ya veré

pesas tanto como un elefante bebé

Me encanta

Por eso me encantas

Outro:

Es mi amor, que calor

Es mi pareja, Es mi esposa

mi primera dama, mi aficionada

Mi unica, mi ultima

Me encanta cuando estás aceitada

caliente y cachonda

Ya veo, veo la entrada

déjame matarte con esta espada

Acapella after the beat:

pero antes admiro tu cuerpo desropado con mis ojos, con mis manos, con mis labios Déjame explorarlo y descubrirlo con mis sentidos. Porque no puedo entender tu belleza No puedo describirte suffisamente. Y no puedo calmarme Cuando te amasas ronroneas como una gatita Cuando me acaricias, mi pulso está en tus manos. Eres tan cálida, abrázame un poco más con las paredes.

Must be spanish!

Flee from nymphos and mamiwata

Stuff your ears or they pull you under

Find a soul mate, drown in her water

Stuff a sole place, when you feel hotter

So many crushes, A hopeless lover

my hearts on crutches, a fighting brother

I felt so ugly, they didnt bother

I'd find my wife, one day or another

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HISTORY OF MERMAIDS IN AFRICA

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African culture has portrayed the idea of the mermaid in many ways across the continent. It has also been observed that certain features are similar across these variations; she has the same purpose of seducing, beguiling and intriguing mankind. She shrouds herself in her mysticism, attractiveness, and, above all, her vengeance.

Typical accounts of her appearance in African Mythology describe a beautiful woman with flowing black hair and an angelic gaze used to entrap or bewilder her spectator (not forgetting her fin-like tail with a torso and head of a human).

She goes by many names, such as Mami Wata (translated to Mother Water) in West Africa to Mamba Muntu in Swahili (east). Nonetheless, they all transcend mankind’s metaphysical perceptions of reality. The history of how the mermaid developed in these cultures stemmed from a broader being in the belief of these mystical creatures. Most accounts of how Mami Wata or Mamba Muntu came to be the main symbol of aquatic deities originated from a belief in “water spirits”. These spirits are often referred to as minions or soldiers, often males, for the higher deities, such as Mami Wata or Mamba Muntu, where they would kidnap, trick, or deceive fishermen and seafarers into sacrificing or tithing to them.

These male figures have been known to become “spirit husbands” for entranced women. This overarching belief in water spirits developed the specific deities of cultures through the framework of societal identity, spiritual direction, and historical beliefs.

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Délivrance des mensonges...

SOYONS DES lecteurs de la vérité et acceptons cette vérité pour changer et être sauvés.

Le jour où l'église catholique aura le don de parler en langue,

Le ministère d'évangélisation,

Aura la hiérarchie : apôtres, prophètes, Évangelistes, pasteurs et docteurs,

Le jour où ils auront une vie des Évangélisations comme les apôtres, revenir à l'immersion, le jour où les pères et pape seront des païens non juifs et recevoir le salut par adoption où ils ne sont pas les chefs des écrits, tout juste des avides qui ont reçu des juifs et ont tordu le sens pour adorer Marie, chapelet, cendre des cadavres, Pétra des mamiwata,...

Le jour où tu découvriras la vérité, tu seras libre de quitter cette valise des morts et pourriture.

Évangeliste Emmanuel le semeur