";s:4:"text";s:6152:" Mawu is the female aspect, and is associated with the East, the night moon, fertility, motherhood and night. However, her own people cut out her tongue so that she would not tell their secrets should she be captured.
And, they like the deities they worship to be attractive, too.Erzulie Freda embodies love and is the spirit of beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers. Two grave errors though, PLEASE CORRECT THEM:Ogun is NOT Yemoja's son, he was her husband until she fled to Olokun in the deep ocean.Ezili Danto is NOT mulatto, she is a DARK SKIN heavy set woman.foolish didnot help me i saw symbols on top and they showed godsPlease stop calling Erzulie Dantor the patron lwa of the lesbians. Liza is the male aspect, and is associated with the West, the daytime sun, heat, work and strength. Agwe is commonly depicted as a mullato man dressed in a naval uniform, and when in possession of another behaves as such, saluting and giving orders.
Each of the many aspects of Ogoun has their own personalities and talents. She is associated with the Lukumi Orisha Oshun, and sometimes Chango (as Erzulie Dantor). Sacrifices and offerings are usually placed upon them.The veve is usually drawn on the floor by strewing a powder-like substance, such as cornmeal, wheat flour, bark, red brick powder, or gunpowder. The veve used in a ceremony is dependent upon the lwa whose presence is desired. To provide a better website experience, exemplore.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Thus, she is mute and can only speak a stammering monosyllable, "ke-ke-ke-ke-ke!" She is frequently invoked to help find a lover, or renew a love relationship. She represents love and is associated with Vodou rites of initiation. Agasou's colors are white, gold, yellow, tan, and brown.
It is he who presides over fire, iron, hunting, politics and war. Agasou was the founder of the Dahomean Empire, and was elevated to the status of divine royal ancestor upon his death. She is often pictured with her daughter Anais, who serves as her translator and interpreter. Damballah-Wedo is strongly associated with the ancestors, and he and his companion Ayida-Wedo are the oldest and wisest of the loa. In all his incarnations Ogun is a fiery and martial spirit. He is strongly associated with plants, trees, and practices associated with those materials such as herbalism. As Dantor, her colors are blue and gold. Erzulie Dantor is a mulatto woman who is often portrayed as the Black Madonna, or the Roman Catholic "Saint Barbara Africana". Just as specific colors, objects, chants and drum beats appeal to specific loa, so to do the veves. There can be no communication with any of the other loas without consulting him first. She protects men and women, she just have to like you, it doesn't matter if you're male or female or if you're gay or not, to her people are just people no matter their sexual orientation, their social status or their gender, she has many children and she love them all.
