#maría lionza

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María Lionza

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Brand of catholicism that goes "depending on the current pope im either gonna chill out and be nice or run into the woods with the pagan goddess until the next one"

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How do your dreams sound? How does your magic feel and sound? 😌🐈‍⬛🌄

One of my goals writing Dream Witchery was keeping it authentic and personal, but also real and faithful to the culture and history it represents.

The aroma of star anise, rosemary, chamomile, mint, cinnamon, kava kava, and orchids burning everyday over a piece of charcoal in the corner's cauldron, that was the essential spirit of the book bringing with it inspiration and motivation day after day, and occasionally camphor to refresh memory and properly clarify memories.

When you have Dream Witchery in your hands it feels like a bunch of wet earth from the edge of the Orinoco River in your hands, when you pick it up from the table it feels like a large, light rock from the bottom of the Segura River in Cartagena.

Those shades of orange on the cover they have that look that is reminiscent of the houses in the old villages of Peru, Cuba and Colombia, when the houses have been painted for so many years that you feel the color change in the cracks, but even so the families do not paint the houses because these were many times painted by their grandparents collecting money for weeks to be able to make these humble changes.

The subtle changes in the Orange cover remind me so much of the color of the burning fathoms at the edge of the Montana de Sorte (Cerro María Lionza) river where the brujas gather after that long two-day journey to honor the queen goddess of the land, It also reminds me of those amazing soups made over burning wood every Sunday afternoon at the Embalse la Mariposa, where my mother, as well as many brujas of the Capital in later years, usually brought their clients to perform spiritist sessions, and aromatics baths with flowers and essences in the river to honor Oshún & Our Golden Lady of Charity 💛

That dancing snake surrounded by moons that reminds me of how our ancestors, Hispanics, Indigenous natives, Europeans, and Afro-Caribbeans living on the coasts mixed with each other and constantly changed their skin, just like us, as well as all the witches in modernity, we constantly change our skin and adapt to everything that comes for us.

Those moons around are a subtle and wise reminder to always keep me grounded, remind me to be a child sitting over the hood of my dad's 1989 Chevrolet Classic just watching the stars and the moon all night and listening the drums coming from the house while everyone is dancing and singing all long night 😌

If you haven't read yet Dream Witchery 🌺 you can grab yours now in this link: https://amzn.to/4aPNCLd or in your favorite local bookstore.

#dreamwitch #indigenouswisdom #tribe

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It is no secret to anyone that José Gregorio Hernández is adored as a healer.

The doctor of the poor belongs to the animist cult of María Lionza —a polytheistic religion— and Afro-Cuban Santeria has a cult of José Gregorio, “popular religion” adores him.

A well-known shaman, who says she teaches people how to call on the spirit of the doctor to turn ordinary water into medicine, sells most of her Gregorio-related items to practitioners of Santeria, the Afro-Latino tradition that prevails in Latin American and Caribbean regions. In parts of Caracas, psychic healers offer the desperate the opportunity to be attended to by Hernández in person. - https://bottegadivina.blog/2015/03/03/jose-gregorio/

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Hello, thanks for considering this ask.

- A woman on a beast. The woman is sometimes nude or partially clothed. The beast is usually a feral animal. Ever heard of this type of symbolism in programming?

It would depend on the belief system followed. For example;

There I saw a woman sitting on a red beast. The beast was covered with evil names. It had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and red. She was shining with the gold, jewels, and pearls that she was wearing. She had a golden cup in her hand. This cup was filled with terribly evil things and the filth of her sexual sin. 5 She had a title written on her forehead. This title has a hidden meaning.-Revelation 17

Princess Yara rides through the mountains on a tapir and often appears in them form of a blue butterfly. (María Lionza)

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Day 3 Part 1!

Today I listened to The Afghan Whigs's "Gentlemen, Willie Colon & Ruben Blades' "Siembra," and Soundgarden's "Superunknown."

"Gentlemen": 7/10 - A great grunge album and the lyrics and vocals were great. Favorite songs were Gentlemen, What Jail Is Like, and My Curse. One of my favorite albums so far. I loved the experimental use of guitars and I think it was an amazing album. Will definitely be listening to more of their discography.

"Siembra": 8/10 - Better than ANYTHING I was expecting!! Favorite songs were Plástico, María Lionza and Siembra. I loved the use of horns and percussion. Definitely a great introduction into Latino music for me. The songs had some of the best baselines I've heard.

"Superunknown": 7.5/10 - Didn’t think I’d like heavish metal but this album was very good. Favorite songs were My Wave, Fell On Black Days, Mailman, and This album’s totally a headbanger and I recommend that everyone should listen to at least ONE song off of this album.

Part 2 out soon :P

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There are a lot of cultures mixing there because of its location. Someone there taught me about the cult of María Lionza which is based in Venezuela. She is a part of a trinity herself.

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Justo dentro de un mes, 7 de septiembre, se cumplirá el 46 aniversario de la edición de "Siembra" de Willie Colon y Rubén Blades, obra maestra absoluta de la música latina y un renacimiento para la salsa cuando se encontraba en franca decadencia. El cantante y compositor panameño y el trombonista del Bronx criado en Puerto Rico parieron en 1978 su deslumbrante disco de la "salsa intelectual", cuajado de números magníficos como "Plástico", "María Lionza", la propia "Siembra", "Buscando Guayaba"... y, sobre todo, la sensacional e inmortal "Pedro Navaja", una de las mejores canciones de todos los tiempos, no sólo latina, sino en general. Una expresiva historia de asesinato urbano entre un malandro y una prostituta fantásticamente narrada, que Gabriel García Márquez hubiera deseado escribir. "Navaja" se inspiró en la célebre "Mack The Knife" - popularizada en 1955 por Louis Armstrong , y, sobre todo, en 1959 por Bobby Darin-, que a su vez era una versión de "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer", de Kurt Weill y Bertolt Brecht (popular en la voz de Lotte Lenya) para el drama musical de 1928, "The Threepenny Opera ("Die Dreigroschenoper").

Subo dos vídeos, uno sensacional en directo en los años 80 con Blades y su grupo Seis del Solar en plena efervescencia, recordando con gracia y estilo ese "Mack The Knife" primigenio (en concreto el de Darin), y por supuesto, con la cita final a "America" de "West Side Story" de Leonard Bernstein. El segundo es la versión en estudio - la historia, el meollo de la letra- de Pedro Navaja, dramatizada para la TV mejicana en 1980.

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La Montaña de Sorte recibió el “Mara de Diamante”

La Fundación Mara de Oro de Venezuela e Internacional este 2024 continúa premiando “lo mejor de lo mejor”, como parte de las actividades en el marco del Sextoagésimo Noveno Aniversario, realizando una Entrega Especial Histórica desde el Monumento Cerro María Lionza la máxima distinción: “Mara de Diamante”, otorgada este año considerado Patrimonio Inmaterial de la Humanidad.  “Para esta…

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Culto de María Lionza

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LA CORONACIÓN ESPIRITUAL EN EL CULTO DE MARÍA LIONZA.

Si lo vemos desde el punto de vista de la Santería sería algo parecido a la que se realiza antes de entrar al cuarto de santo para coronarse la osha.

Pero para los Marialonceros la Coronación es algo muy importante es como la consagración por la Santa Reyna María Lionza, y es un punto importante ya que te lo ganas con muchos sacrificio y dedicación, algunos lo obtienen por su gran desempeño y/o evolución como Materia, Banco ó simplemente por su conducta dentro y fuera del culto, o con las Ceremonias que se le van realizando a la materia que se inicia en el culto.

Pero bien, quien es el elegido o quien está realmente capacitado para decidir quién y cuándo, un Marialoncero debe ser Coronado, esto solo lo deciden los hermanos espirituales en una sección o misa y se le comunica al elegido en su debido momento, bien sea en la montaña de la Reina ó en el portal principal del grupo, o haciendo una consulta directa con los espíritus, ya sea por el tabaco o las muletillas que se suelen usar en el culto.

Cuanto tiempo debe pasar o que cosas debe hacer un Marialoncero para recibir una Coronación, el tiempo definitivamente es incierto, porque uno puede pensar que un hermano debe recibir una Coronación pero los hermanos espirituales no se la conceden, que cosas se deben hacer para tratar de recibir una Coronación, el comportamiento dentro y fuera del culto es fundamental seguido de la disciplina a la hora de desarrollarse como Materia y/o Banco a esto va aunado los sacrificios que todo Marialoncero debe realizar, entre lo más usual es que sean veintiún días de purificación en oraciones y retirado de las bebidas alcohólica, las fiestas, parrandas, reuniones no deseadas y la abstención del sexo por completo, también bajo limpiezas de plantas fuertes, y baños dulces, poniendo unas asistencias ya sea una bóveda espiritual con sus respectivos vasos representando las cortes y prendiendo una vela diaria durante este periodo, con lo cual podrá proceder a realizar el primer velado de limpieza, despojo y purificación con velas blancas y luego pasar al velado de fuerza, elevación y desarrollo, con las velas de colores según lo indiquen los espíritus y luego de sacarle el camino de las cortes que lo acogerán en el culto, con lo que se sabrá si podrá recibir el misterio y tinaja del culto a María Lionza.

Para qué sirve la Coronación, lo que más se conoce es el resultado sobre los que son Materia se dice que la Coronación cierra el Carapacho contra entidades negativas ó malignas y no permite que esa Materia Coronada reciba algo malo, además de abrir el portal del cerebro por primera vez al umbral espiritual de sus guías principales y protectores, como la primera Coronación la realiza el Protector se dice que este deja una marca espiritual que identifica al Coronado como hijo de ese espíritu.

La Coronación es un arma de doble filo, esto porque es un reto que se debe asumir con bondad y no sentirse por encima de los demás, yo personalmente he visto personas coronadas que antes de su Coronación tienen un desempeño impresionante y después de la Coronación empiezan a decaer hasta el punto que terminan por retirarse del culto o solo del grupo donde recibió la Coronación, por otro lado está la otra cara de la moneda de Coronados que toman un segundo aire y sorprenden con la evoluciónque tienen después de su Coronación.

Se dice que son tres las Coronación que se deben recibir para cerrar bien el Carapacho y que este bien protegido espiritualmente, pero también he visto a hermanos con más de tres Coronaciones

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Pedro Centeno Vallenilla .(1899-1988) Sketch for a slave in ‘Maria Lionza’ picture. María lionza is a Venezuelan goddess

Pedro Cebreno Vallenilla: Nude Study (1940s)

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Maria Lionza, Lady of the spirits and souls.

The cult of the indigenous goddess Yara de la Onza or Maria Lionza in Venezuela, the same spiritualist cult that has spread to other countries such as Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador, ultimately transcends the comprehension of those occultists and sorcerers who do not reside there.

Maria Lionza is cited in a few books. Most define her as a Venezuelan indigenous legend, a female spirit of native origin, or a "local goddess" of spirits and nature. In Venezuela, Maria Lionza is all of these definitions and more. She is a high magic spiritual entity that assists all those who feel isolated, unappreciated, belittled, marginalized, and mistreated. She and all those who oppose the ideas of the system brought by the colonizers: racism, transphobia, homophobia, religious imposition, patriarchy, etc.

Maria Lionza represents the wild, free, indomitable, and matriarchal aspect of Nature. It is the old story of an indigenous woman who rebelled against the religious institution and freed enslaved people. It is the never-written tale of a powerful woman who discovers in her femininity an intimate connection to divinity and, through it, finds the power to lead the rebellion and claim her role until death and beyond.

Between Animas & Spirits

Maria Lionza acts as a liberator of the Animas and souls from purgatory, just as she was a liberator of the indigenous peoples enslaved by the European colonizers.

She is the central character in the spiritist cult of the animas and spirits in Venezuela. Although the term "Animas" has a massive variety of results according to each Latin American country, in the spiritist aspect, it is the term commonly used to refer to those lost souls, martyred souls, and souls that wander aimlessly in pain, either for having committed suicide or murder, for having seriously harmed others, or (following Catholic tradition) for not having received baptism, although today the latter can be referred to more broadly in the aspect of being an anima that did not follow an established religious current or another spiritual path, and simply has no direction of ascension to follow in the afterlife.

Maria Lionza is the leader of her own spiritual court, and contrary to Santa Barbara, another character of great relevance in the spiritualist cults of the region, who appears as a more modern character and is linked to the Catholic people, Maria Lionza represents the indigenous ancestors and pagan warriors of the past, native sorceresses and their pre-colonization magic, nature's herbal and medicinal secrets, and a connection to all the wild animals of which she has been proclaimed queen.

The animas and spirits serve as messengers of Maria Lionza, a queen in the world of spirits and fairies, the latter being very different characters in Latin America from their European version, darker in character and with a very different origin.

Being a Marialioncero, a priest of Maria Lionza, also implies being a sorcerer who agrees with all these spirits that are present, working at their service and charging them through favors. Conquering the world of spirits is a particular task that requires years of training and constant practice. These are esoteric mysteries not found in books and encyclopedias but hidden in plain sight and in constant and changing practice.

The spirits of low light and the animas act as servants of the queen. They come to the sorcerer or the Chaman to agree in exchange for mutual favors, thus being for them a mission to fulfill beyond life, thus allowing them to somehow way to free themselves from the chains and agony of being souls in pain and serve, beyond death, a purpose superior to them, a spiritual entity of greater power, and work shoulder to shoulder with priests, warriors, and sorcerers of the goddess.

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Other Posts Of Mine To Follow The Topic:Maria Lionza: The Queen of Witches & Fairies.Maria Lionza: A  Feminist And Indigenous Cult of Latin American Origin.Marialionceros: The Tradition, Cult, and Spiritism of the Goddess Maria Lionza.A Special Post Made by Me for Tess Whitehurst's Blog:

An Introduction to Queen Maria Lionza, Goddess of Witches, and a Ritual in her Honor.

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From a historical perspective, the origin of the figure of María Lionza and her cult is still unclear. Everything seems to indicate, however, that this belief stems from ceremonies that the inhabitants of present-day Venezuela held in honor of female deities - deities associated with water, animals, and the forces of nature - before the arrival of the Spaniards. Later, these beliefs blended with Catholicism and with the rituals brought over by West African slaves. The cult has received strong influences from Allan Kardec's Spiritism, Cuban Santería, Umbanda, and Haitian Voodoo, among other religious practices. Despite its close connection with Venezuela, the belief in and worship of María Lionza has spread, in recent decades, to other South American and Caribbean countries - such as Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico - as well as to the United States and Europe, in particular Spain. The presence of the cult on the Internet is overwhelming, and so is the use that believers make of new technologies such as smartphones and social networks.

Roger Canals, “Studying Multi-Modal Religions: Migration and Mediation in the Cult of María Lionza (Venezuela, Barcelona, Internet)” (2018)

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Maria Lionza religion devotee during ritual. Sorte mountain, Yaracuy State, Venezuela, 2004 - photo by Cristina García Rodero

Devotees of the María Lionza religion, a mix of Catholic, West African and other customs, make a pilgrimage each October to Sorte Mountain in Yaracuy State, Venezuela, home of the high altar to the religion's central figure.

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