As i search for pertinent evidence to document things to honor my Spiritual Guardians, i find much differing information. A new goal has been set by me to honor the Orishas on their days of the week.
Since they all differ, i will pick one and document it. Sheloya states "Link to this article: http://soulmindbody.net/esu/2Crfw
Though any day is a good day to stay in touch with any Orisha, certain days have a special mood to them, and these affect the way we reach out. It also helps to remember all of the Orishas you know of, if you have a schedule for daily observances. Then there are the tried and true traditions of elders in Africa and the diaspora. Over hundreds or thousands of years, the way they practice has stood the test of time in keeping people mindful and getting things done.
Different regions and sects have different days of the week they consider most auspicious. If your culture has a different schedule, you should adhere to that unless it feels wrong to you or an Orisha has instructed you to change the day for your own practice. Some cultures also have a monthly schedule or lunar schedule.
Here’s the basic 7 day weekly schedule that we keep in Ile Baalat Teva in Israel.
Sunday: Obatala, Orunmila
Monday: Papa Legba, Elegua, Eshu, Exu
Tuesday: Ogun
Wednesday: Ogun, Babalu-Aye
Thursday: Oldumare, Olofin, Olorun, Holy Spirit, Obatala, Jesus, Orunmila, Ifa, Orula
Friday: Shango, Babalu-Aye, Oba, Oya
Saturday: Yemaya, Oshun" http://soulmindbody.net/esu/2011/03/orisha-days-of-the-week/
Informs us that "The orisha, the gods of the Fon and Yoruba peoples of West Africa, are some of the most vital and intriguing beings ever to pass through the minds of men and women. The orisha are profoundly "living" gods, if by this we means archetypes, or constellations of images and forces, that actively permeate the psychic lives of living humans. On the simplest level they are alive because they are worshiped: orisha are prayed to, invoked, and ritually "fed" by many millions of people in both Africa and the Americas. Not only are the gods alive, but they are long-lived; unlike contemporary Neo-Pagan deities, which have basically been reconstructed from the inquisitional ashes of history, the orisha have been passed through countless generations of worshipers with little interruption.
More profoundly, the very nature of the orisha is to be alive in the most fundamental sense we know -- though our own human lives. Though they possess godlike powers, the orisha are not transcendent beings, but are immanent in this life, bound up with ritual, practice, and human community. They are accessible to people, combining elements of both mythological characters and ancestral ghosts. Like both of these groups of entities, the orisha are composed of immaterial but idiosyncratic personalities that eat, drink, lie, and sleep with each other's mates. Though West African tradition does posit a central creator god, he/she is generally quite distant, and the orisha are, like us, left in a world they did not create, a world of nature and culture, of sex, war, rivers, thunder, magic, and divination. The orisha are regularly "fed" with animal blood, food, and gifts, and during rituals the gods frequently possess the bodies of the faithful. Their behavior draws from the full range of human experience, including sexuality, mockery, and intoxication.
That the orisha remain outside the scope of many Western students of esotericism and even polytheism is understandable, given the historical domination of Africans by the Europeans of the New World. Black Americans were forced to hide their deities or dress them up in Catholic garb, while whites cut themselves off from all but the most superficial appreciations of those African cultural values that managed to survive. To even graze the heart of the orisha, white Westerners must overcome two obstacles: the storehouse of Hollywood's cartoon representations we carry in our subconscious, and the more pernicious underlying Western prejudices against traditional African worship, which run the gamut from the denigration of blood sacrifice to the absurd notion that polyrhythm is somehow less sophisticated and more primitive than European musical forms."
http://www.levity.com/figment/trickster.html
This blog introduces the Orishas @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/1-introduce-orishas.html
This one provides my introductory information from a fabulous lady who grew up in an Orisha Religion @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/part-1what-honest-pure-hearted-insider.html and part 2 @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/part-2-what-honest-pure-hearted-insider.html
Blogs have been prepared for each Orisha's Day:
"Sundays are for Obatala" @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/sundays-are-for-obatala_12
"Monday is for Eshu" @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/monday-is-for-eshu.html
"Tuesdays are for the Orisha Ogun" @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/tuesdays-are-for-orisha-ogun.html
Informs us that "The orisha, the gods of the Fon and Yoruba peoples of West Africa, are some of the most vital and intriguing beings ever to pass through the minds of men and women. The orisha are profoundly "living" gods, if by this we means archetypes, or constellations of images and forces, that actively permeate the psychic lives of living humans. On the simplest level they are alive because they are worshiped: orisha are prayed to, invoked, and ritually "fed" by many millions of people in both Africa and the Americas. Not only are the gods alive, but they are long-lived; unlike contemporary Neo-Pagan deities, which have basically been reconstructed from the inquisitional ashes of history, the orisha have been passed through countless generations of worshipers with little interruption.
More profoundly, the very nature of the orisha is to be alive in the most fundamental sense we know -- though our own human lives. Though they possess godlike powers, the orisha are not transcendent beings, but are immanent in this life, bound up with ritual, practice, and human community. They are accessible to people, combining elements of both mythological characters and ancestral ghosts. Like both of these groups of entities, the orisha are composed of immaterial but idiosyncratic personalities that eat, drink, lie, and sleep with each other's mates. Though West African tradition does posit a central creator god, he/she is generally quite distant, and the orisha are, like us, left in a world they did not create, a world of nature and culture, of sex, war, rivers, thunder, magic, and divination. The orisha are regularly "fed" with animal blood, food, and gifts, and during rituals the gods frequently possess the bodies of the faithful. Their behavior draws from the full range of human experience, including sexuality, mockery, and intoxication.
That the orisha remain outside the scope of many Western students of esotericism and even polytheism is understandable, given the historical domination of Africans by the Europeans of the New World. Black Americans were forced to hide their deities or dress them up in Catholic garb, while whites cut themselves off from all but the most superficial appreciations of those African cultural values that managed to survive. To even graze the heart of the orisha, white Westerners must overcome two obstacles: the storehouse of Hollywood's cartoon representations we carry in our subconscious, and the more pernicious underlying Western prejudices against traditional African worship, which run the gamut from the denigration of blood sacrifice to the absurd notion that polyrhythm is somehow less sophisticated and more primitive than European musical forms."
http://www.levity.com/figment/trickster.html
This blog introduces the Orishas @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/1-introduce-orishas.html
This one provides my introductory information from a fabulous lady who grew up in an Orisha Religion @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/part-1what-honest-pure-hearted-insider.html and part 2 @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/part-2-what-honest-pure-hearted-insider.html
Blogs have been prepared for each Orisha's Day:
"Sundays are for Obatala" @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/sundays-are-for-obatala_12
"Monday is for Eshu" @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/monday-is-for-eshu.html
"Tuesdays are for the Orisha Ogun" @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/tuesdays-are-for-orisha-ogun.html
"Babalu Aye has Wednesdays" @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/babalu-aye-has-wednesdays.html
"Thursday Is for Olorun" @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/thursday-is-for-olorun.html
"Chanogo Gets Friday" @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/chango-gets-friday_10.html
"Yemoja Has Saturday" @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/yemaja-has-saturday.html
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