Alafia and blessings to you all,
I wanted to come out of the shadows and introduce myself as i am loving all of the wonderful discussion on this tribe. My name is Kevin. Within Ifa my name is Omi Sakin Ifawole Zannu. I am a Priest of Yemoja and a member of Ile Oyigiyigi here in Dallas,Tx. My friend and good pal Dominic from this list introduced me to this tribe. You all seem like a great group of people and I look forward to networking with you all. Especially those of you in Texas.
I wanted to come out of the shadows and introduce myself as i am loving all of the wonderful discussion on this tribe. My name is Kevin. Within Ifa my name is Omi Sakin Ifawole Zannu. I am a Priest of Yemoja and a member of Ile Oyigiyigi here in Dallas,Tx. My friend and good pal Dominic from this list introduced me to this tribe. You all seem like a great group of people and I look forward to networking with you all. Especially those of you in Texas.
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Re: Speaking of Introductions
Thu, October 20, 2005 - 10:19 AMWelcome to the gang Kevin!
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Thu, October 20, 2005 - 10:22 AMAlafia Kevin.
I am Faizah from Houston. Welcome to the Santeria tribe. Hopefully we will run into each other in some Texas gathering.
I just got my elekes and am looking to make friends in the Texas communities.
Faizah
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Re: Speaking of Introductions
Thu, October 20, 2005 - 11:25 AMWelcome Kevin!!!
Glad to see you make it here. The people here are really cool and very friendly!
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Thu, October 20, 2005 - 2:24 PMMaferefun Yemaya! Another brother of Yemaya! Welcome to the tribe.
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Thu, October 20, 2005 - 8:48 PMHowdy & Alafia Kevin,
Lots of Yemaya's children here it seems. Welcome.
What color blue are you? :)
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Thu, October 20, 2005 - 11:34 PMHelp help I am drowning..... lol. How many Yemaya children are in here now?? And she is my mother too!
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Fri, October 21, 2005 - 12:40 AMIt does seem like a whole passel of 'em ennit? :D I noticed that between today and yesterday... water, water, water everywhere... -
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Re: Speaking of Introductions
Fri, October 21, 2005 - 2:01 AMHoney you can't swing a dead chicken in this religion without hitting one of us. -
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Fri, October 21, 2005 - 4:39 AMWe do, after all cover the greater part of the Earth. -
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Fri, October 21, 2005 - 9:06 AMAshe, soy hijo de Okuti. -
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Fri, October 21, 2005 - 9:44 AMAsesu here.
"Lady sings light blues ... " -
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Fri, October 21, 2005 - 1:55 PMRock on! We're not that common. I've had the lady for 15 years. -
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Re: Speaking of Introductions
Sat, October 22, 2005 - 7:38 AMLooks like I'm the only Achaba (turquoise in my rama) road here :)
Wonder which road is the rarest? Okoto perhaps?
Denise
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Re: Speaking of Introductions
Sat, October 22, 2005 - 7:45 AMThere are some pretty rare ones ... rarer than Okoto.
Awoyo (the ever full pot), Ibu Olowo (the owner of money), Ibu Aro (she who is crowned with the rainbow), Ibu Agana (the messenger of Olokun), Ibu Akuara (she who lives at the junction of the river and the ocean), Ibu Konla (the sea foam).
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Re: Speaking of Introductions
Sat, October 22, 2005 - 2:01 PMModupue Afolabi,
Awoyo I have heard mentiioned - and of course sung about - and somewhere read something about Ibu Konla - perhaps something you wrote (grin) but on the others I'm clueless.
Whta are their colors/elekes? (smile - how many are dark blues?)
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Re: Speaking of Introductions
Sat, October 22, 2005 - 3:43 PMIbu Aro takes translucent dark blue. Some punctuate her eleke with glorias of all colours. Awoyo takes 7 shades. Konla takes milky white beads (jabon) punctuated with VERY few light blue beads. Her eleke should look like the sea foam. Ibu Olowo takes dark blue (most use translucent dark blue) and cowries (some use coins). Akuara is a light blue. Agana takes sort of a teal blue, kind of greenish. All of them can be grouped in 7s with crystal or milky white (with the exception of Konla whose eleke is very specific) -- seven blue, seven crystal or jabon, etc. This can also be done in multiples of 7. Coral is also common to all paths. Agana takes a translucent green bead on either side of the coral like Olokun.
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Mon, October 24, 2005 - 7:26 AMI remember seeing pages from a book that had a bunch of collected eleke patterns - is that book accurate? I can't for the life of me remember what it's called. -
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Mon, October 24, 2005 - 9:01 AMMy godfather's book "Ase Ewe Osain" has eleke patterns that are very good. If you have any specific you want to know I can help out. I'm pretty good with knowing the way each lineage dresses each road. Most of them are pretty standard, but there are some where if you are from one city in Cuba your eleke for, say, Oshun Akuaro, can look totally different from someone with the same road whose lineage is from a different city.
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Mon, October 24, 2005 - 1:03 PMYay! I'll let you know when I need a pattern! :) Thanks!
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Mon, October 24, 2005 - 1:28 PMI went once to my godmother's to get my Olokun eleke replaced, it had broke. So I get there, she makes me a new one, gets it ready, puts it to me, and as I am about to walk out the front door, it breaks again. Suddenly there are beads raining all over the front door. So we go back up and she makes another one. But we were talking, and she made it too big for her liking. It would have hung down into my pants. LOL So fixes that one and tells me to put it on my Olokun itself. She makes me another one, washes it, etc, and I was able to make it out the door. I still have it, It seems that Olokun wanted me to wear one that was larger beads, and stronger built, the ones Madrina normally makes are finer. My Shango one has to be large and have Coweries for Glorias. I keep getting this vision of them all being like that, so that I am wearing something that approaches the mini Mazos I have seen worn. But all of my elekes being like that and me bent over from the weight...
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Re: Speaking of Introductions
Wed, May 14, 2008 - 11:03 AMthis is great info!
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Re: Speaking of Introductions
Mon, October 24, 2005 - 7:24 AMAsesu here as well. :)
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Re: Speaking of Introductions
Sat, October 22, 2005 - 1:16 AMI don't know yet, but my friends keep saying Ellegua.
So maybe??
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