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Orí Eledá Mí Ó…If My Head Does Note Sell Me

By Obá Miguel W. Ramos, Ilarí Obá, PhD.

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The long-awaited translation and expanded edition of the Spanish-language Orí Eledá mí ó…Si mi cabeza no me vende. The book provides the reader with vital information about the significance of the head in Orisha Religion, in Yorubaland and the Diaspora. The author compares the rites and wisdom of the three major Orisha centers–Yorubaland, Cuba, and Brazil. In addition, the book contains much historical and ritual data that will afford modern-day olorishas with considerable knowhow and understanding about the numerous complexities of Orisha religion. Readers have referred to the Spanish version of the book as “…a small encyclopedia of Orisha religion.”

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Ilú Añá: Sacred Batá, Handbook for Orisha Practitioners

By Oluwo Félix D. Sanabria and Olorisha Susan Richardson-Sanabria

Undoubtedly, this book will be classified as another important contribution to the reliable literature on Lukumí Orisha spirituality. It was given high praise in Pittsburg at the “A Black Bead Story Afro-Caribbean Summer Dance & Drum Intensive.” Read it and find out why!


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On the Orishas’ Roads and Pathways: Yemojá, Mother of the World

By Obá Miguel W. Ramos, Ilarí Obá, PhD.

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The third book in the On the Orishas’ Roads and Pathways series is now available. This book focuses on Yemojá, the orisha that rules over the world’s waters since before the arrival of orishas and humans to Ayé. As one of the primordial deities of the Yoruba-Lukumí pantheon, Yemojá plays a vital position in the cosmos. She nurtures humanity and succors those who seek her help. In addition, Yemojá fights injustice and protects her devotees from the negative forces of the universe. As the epitome of womanhood, Yemojá is a staunch and powerful defender of women, fiercely confronting the abuse of mothers, women, and children. If the first two volumes in this series have received great praise from the Orisha community and academics alike, this next tome will live up to the reputation of the previous ones, surely becoming another valuable contribution to the literature on Orisha religion.

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On the Orishas’ Roads and Pathways: Obatalá, Odúa, Oduduwá

By Obá Miguel W. Ramos, Ilarí Obá, PhD.

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On the Orishas’ Roads and Pathways: Obatalá, Odúa, Oduduwá is the second in a collection of publications on Lukumí Orisha religion. Ramos has published many other works. His Orí Eledá mí ó . . . Si mi cabeza no me vende (2011), Adimú: Gbogbó Tén’unjé Lukumí (2012), and Obí Agbón—Lukumí Divination with Coconut (2012) have received much praise from the Orisha community. The first volume in this series, On the Orishas’ Roads and Pathways: Oshún, Deity of Femininity, laid the foundations for this volume on Obatalá and Odúa, which promises to engage the reader and promote necessary and meaningful discourse and consideration of important themes on the current state of Lukumí religion as it experiences its transition onto the stage of world faiths.

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On the Orishas’ Roads and Pathways: Oshún Deity of Femininity

By Obá Miguel W. Ramos, Ilarí Obá
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Possibly one of the most complex deities of the Yoruba-Lukumí pantheon, Oshún is the epitome of beauty, motherhood, and femininity. No other orisha combines as many human and divine qualities as Oshún, the deity who teaches humankind how to live and love and enjoy life to its fullest. This book explores the roles and significance of Oshún.

On the Orishas’ Roads and Pathways promises to be an insightful and extensive examination of Oshún, her presence in the Diaspora, and her position in the pantheon. Devotees and scholars will find great value in the narrative, the historical discussion, and the analysis of Oshún from both the philosophical and academic perspective. Olorishas will appreciate the information that the author shares about Oshún’s roads or avatars. Undoubtedly, this book will be of great importance to both the Orisha community and the scholarship on Orisha religion.

Because the author is both a renowned priest and a scholar, his approach builds on decades of religious devotion and experience, as well as the rigors of academic training, and an extensive degree of participant observation and archival research in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil. Most certainly, On the Orishas’ Roads and Pathways—Oshún Deity of Femininity will be a valuable study that will benefit many.

 

 

Curamagüey: Enclave Lucumí en Matanzas

Por Jorge Renier Brito Santana y editado por Miguel W. Ramos
ISBN: 978-1-877845-14-7
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Desde la década del 1960 han aparecido más libros e investigaciones académicas sobre esta religión en la diáspora lucumí-cubana que en la misma Cuba. La gran mayoría de las publicaciones escritas por olorishas lucumíes están relacionadas con la práctica y los oráculos. Con algunas excepciones, los libros que más abundan tienen poco que ver con la trayectoria histórica de la religión lucumí. Además, la vasta mayoría de estas obras, y especialmente las que tratan sobre la religión lucumí, se enfocan en las tradiciones habaneras, ignorando en su mayor parte las otras regiones de la isla donde existen diferencias en cuanto a estructura, forma y práctica. Es importante enfatizar que en Cuba existen varias tradiciones religiosas lucumíes y no sólo aquella que se practica en La Habana.

Menor aún son las crónicas que abren pequeñas ventanas que trascienden las limitaciones del tiempo y permiten conocer algo más allá de anécdotas sobre lo cotidiano y lo vulgar asociado con las vidas de esas personas que echaron los cimientos de esta religión en Cuba. Estos ancestros tan reverenciados por los oloshas, debido a la relación genealógica-religiosa que comparten, también contribuyeron al desarrollo de esta religión de varias otras formas, muchas de ellas olvidadas o ignoradas por sus descendientes. Estar al tanto de estas valiosas aportaciones y la tenacidad de estos seres humanos; conocer su humanidad y la forma en la cual esta influenció las decisiones que ellas y ellos tomaron para defender su cultura y religión; para conservar su identidad, debe pasar a ser una de las prioridades de los olorishas que hoy hacen un aporte a la literatura lucumí.

La presente obra contribuye a este todavía limitado cuerpo intelectual. Jorge Renier Brito Santana, Babá Efún, y ahora Awó Orúnmilá Babá Ejiogbé, nos conduce en un mágico recorrido por el mundo del Curamagüey; nos deja ver las tradiciones de un pueblo matancero y un enclave étnico-religioso que fue establecido por esclavos africanos, en su mayor parte lucumíes, a finales del siglo XIX. Producto de historia oral, esta obra recuenta el origen de un linaje lucumí matancero. A la vez, nos presenta la oportunidad de conocer más a fondo a personajes históricos que a través de la memoria colectiva de un pueblo y las páginas de este libro recuperan vida, permitiéndonos alcanzar más allá de los meros recuentos de las prácticas que diferencian a este enclave matancero de las tradiciones habaneras y de otras áreas de la isla.

La obra de Babá Efún es un estupendo regreso y recuento a través del tiempo, la cual parte de la introducción a un grupo de señoras; a las “potencias” lucumíes, para luego presentarnos un bello y nostálgico trazo de la dispersión de la religión que ellas hicieron posible.


 

Obí Agbón: Lukumi Divination With Coconut

By Obá Oriaté Miguel “Willie” Ramos, Ilarí Obá.
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Obí Agbón is a ground-breaking exploration of Lukumí (Yoruba) divination with coconut and its historical evolution in Cuba and the Cuban diaspora. This study reviews the existing scholarship on the topic, offering critical and profound observations that are of major importance and relevance to the state of affairs of Lukumí religion in the XXIst century.

In the process of analyzing the primary subject, the author book examines some of the more salient debates, internal discrepancies and worrisome, unprecedented trends that have challenged the Lukumí community through the years, and continue to do so in the modern context. Furthermore, while not dismissing the role of mythology and tradition, the author’s exploration presents a series of fundamental considerations, significant for both devotees and the scholarship, which are founded upon historical archival evidence as well as oral “texts”—the accounts of the members of the Lukumí community themselves. In the process, the reader gains valuable insight about the role of human capriciousness and inventiveness that so often lead to confusion, discrepancies and contention amongst Olorishas, and repeatedly upset or alter religious practice.

The author’s dominion of the subject matter is supported by four decades of active participation as an Olorisha and Obá Oriaté, in the religion that has been part of his own family tradition for at least four generations. Moreover, fieldwork in Cuba and the Cuban diaspora, scholarly research and publications, participation in many conferences and symposiums, and contributions to several museum exhibitions, corroborate the author’s expertise and command of the topic. Surely, Obí Agbón will be an invaluable guide for the Olorisha and an important contributor to the scholarly literature on Lukumí religion.

Raised upon very firm foundations, this study will certainly—and hopefully—lead to other levels of discussion that are of extreme importance given the growth, expansion and continual transformation of the Lukumí religion since the Cuban Revolution, which has allowed the religious system to respond to the needs of greater and significantly diverse national and ethnic communities that have joined its ranks. Undoubtedly, all forms of Yoruba religion are living traditions that, by their very nature, cannot remain static. Stagnation clearly presages the system’s demise. As a “living” entity, the Lukumí faith will—in fact, must—continually grow and evolve, actively and incessantly encompassing those elements that expand the religion’s character and applicability to the modern world, while simultaneously supporting its perpetuity.

As Lukumí and all variants of Yoruba religion continue ascending as universal faiths, the custodians of each tradition have a responsibility and an obligation to safeguard the religion’s essential core, whether or not its margins pursue (hopefully) positive interaction with the other traditions. Ultimately, whether these custodians accept or reject any transformative movements is immaterial, given the unrelenting character of the natural evolution that the various traditions must inevitably follow to respond to the modern world. At these junctions, it is vital that the community guarantees the constant and unremitting scrutiny of the fundamental components that make up the religions’ core as these elements interact with the concerns, changes and directions that will shape ritual and practice for generations to come. This book contributes to the ongoing debate, but most importantly if does so by ensuring that actively defending and guarding a religious legacy that must withstand the test of time and unremittingly demonstrate its capacity to advance beyond the obstacles that it encounters in its journey.

 

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Orí Eledá mí ó…Si mi cabeza no me vende

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Obá Oriaté Miguel “Willie”Ramos, Ilarí Obá.
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La gran mayoría de los rituales de iniciación al sacerdocio en la religión yoruba y los sistemas que descienden de ella en Cuba y Brasil se llevan a cabo sobre la cabeza del futuro sacerdote. La cabeza juega el papel primordial en todo aspecto, ya que forma una parte intrínseca de las filosofías religiosas de este sistema, como bien nos lo recuerda el odu Ejiogbe: “la cabeza lleva al cuerpo.”

La presente obra analiza el rol de la cabeza del ser humano y su relación con las diversas creencias y tradiciones; sus bases teológicas y prácticas. ¿Que significas las palabras ashé, Orí, Eledá, Olofín, iwá? ¿Cuales son las obligaciones del olorisha y del ser humano y el debido comportamiento que estos deben observar durante el transcurso de sus vidas? ¿Qué representan la vida y la muerte para los iniciados yorubas, cubanos y brasileños? ¿Cuáles son las armas que están a la disposición del sacerdote para mejorar su mundo y apaciguar las fuerzas del bien y del mal en su diaria interacción con los seres humanos?

Esta obra responde a estas y cientos de preguntas más; responde a las inquietudes que muchos olorishas expresan para las cuales nunca han recibido o encontrado respuestas concretas y honestas, respaldadas por una lógica filosófica y religiosa, y no por un mero capricho o la incapacidad de muchos de negar su desconocimiento para defender su imagen, lo cual descansa sobre el orgullo como mecanismo de defensa para esconder la ignorancia. No olvidemos aquella ya agotada respuesta que todos hemos escuchado la cual defiende el desconocimiento alegando que “¡en mi casa se hace así!”

No se pierda esta importantísima y reveladora obra la cual le abrirá los ojos a la luz del entendimiento y le ayudará a echar los cimientos religiosos necesarios para ser un olorisha con fundamento y una base religiosa.

 

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Adimú: Gbogbó Tén’unjé Lukumí [English Language]

By Obá Oriaté Miguel “Willie” Ramos, Ilarí Obá.
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Do you know what offerings are pleasing to Elegbá, Obatalá, Oduduwá, Irokó or Dadá? Do you know how to prepare ekó, akasá, ekurú aró, olelé or sheketé, and what orisha each belongs to? Now a valuable source of information is available to guide the devotee and provide information about the adimús that you may offer to your orishas. The material presented in this pamphlet was first presented at a seminar that I directed in Miami and Chicago in 2003. Plans are now being made to present the seminar in New York, Los Angeles and other cities in 2004.

The book has been expanded to include other adimús and photos of prepared orisha foods that have been offered in actual rituals.

Readers have praised the first edition of the book:
“…one of the most informative books on orisha foods to date…” J. Rodríguez, Miami, FL
“…it is very important to pass on knowledge in our religion and this book does just that…” R. Feliciano, NYC
“…the most helpful tool in the kitchen of an olorisha…” G. Mesa, Los Angeles, CA<h/4>

 

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Ase Omo Osayin…Ewe Aye. 5th Ed. (Spanish text)

Obá Oriaté Miguel “Willie”Ramos, Ilarí Obá.
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¿Conoce usted que ofrenda le agrada a Elegbá, a Obatalá, Oduduwá, Irokó o Dadá? ¿Sabe usted como confeccionar ekó, akasá, ekurú aró, olelé o sheketé, y a que orisha le pertenecen? Ahora tiene disponible una valiosa fuente de información para guiar al devoto que le ayudará a conocer los adimús que le puede ofrecer a sus orishas. El material que se presenta en este folleto fue ofrecido por primera vez en un seminario que dirigí en Miami y en Chicago en el 2003. Hay planes de ofrecer el seminario en New York, Los Ángeles y otras ciudades en el 2004. El folleto contiene un potpurrí de recetas escogidas al asar para la confección de adimús.

 


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Oro Egungun: Las Honras de Egungun (Spanish text)

Obá Oriaté Miguel “Willie” Ramos, Ilarí Obá.

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