BELIEFS OR REALITIES

These words plows directed to people with religions, cults, beliefs or realities popularity of América. Until today you have been faithful to your roots, custom or traditions with immense faith and have given happiness to the entities of the light with healthy intention and love you have communicated.

All those that practice healthily and with love the Vudú, Witchcraft, Spiritism or Santeria do it following centuries of experiences and traditions that exist way before any of the religions of the world, but it is now the moment to study on the "True Me", the importance to be alive and live in harmony with the nature, the pardon and the love to the neighbor.

In America and Africa the concept of spirituality goes bound to its own indigenous beliefs and its faith in the spirits, of there the Haitian Vudú, the Cuban Santería, the Brazilian Macumba and the Indian courts of the north, center and south America have been born. For most this is superstition and for others they are the religions populistic, regrettably today they exist in the world religions based on the economic power and not in the faith.

People generally think that these beliefs are harmful because alone they have listened of the dark side of the belief, sacrifices, sombis and puppets with needles. We all know that the exists well and the wrong, these beliefs also have the good side, the love, the kindness, exists the solidarity, the sacrifice and the desire of helping the neighbor, those that practice it the they make without ends of lucre and they are very simple beings.

The India courts of different continents, the Arab, Hebrew courts, Hindus, oriental and vikingas request to their faithful ones that they begin their spiritual evolution and work and investigates you on the "Great Truth" that is inside you, it is cheats that you the hour that they become searchers, pupils or students so that they find the Gurú, Instructor or Teacher that will guide you in your search to achieve your interior evolution.

CANDOMBLÉ, MACUMBA, SANTERÍA AND VUDÚ:

Saint Barbara of Chango

These belief arrived to the new world with the African slaves. They surrender cult to the same ORISHAS (gods or saints), the difference is in the rituals and the shape of practicing its rites. Each Orisha represents a force of the nature combined with the vital virtues. Some of them are:

        Olofi:        God of gods, is the Creator, its virtues are the peace and the love.

     Obatalá/Odudúa: God of the air and their virtues are the ethics and the wisdom.

     Yemayá:    God of the sea, their virtues are the kindness and maternal love.

     Oggún:     God of the iron and the earth, their virtues are self-determination and the creativity.

     Changó:    God of the thunder and the ray, their virtues are the truth and the justice.

     Yansá:     God of the wind, their virtues are the conscience, the personality and the fraternity.

In the African wisdom, the mother Earth is protected by entities or deities that they help to the planet and they cultivate the virtues that the humans should assimilate in its spirit.

Their priests (babalawo) they practice different systems of divination like the Oracle of Ifá and the snails. Others serve as channel or mediums so that it happens the possession phenomenon for the Orisha and transmit their teachings or advice. Aché

MARIA LIONZA

Saint Queen, Goddess of the Nature.

She lived during the years 1502 at 1528. She was the warring cacique's daughter Yaracuy who put him for name Yara. Their look was sweet, its very soft voice and its words were full with love, kindness and wisdom. From their birth it was maid and taken care as an alive divinity in the charming mountains of surrounded Sorte of trees, fruits, animals and rivers. She loved the nature that in their elevation you disintegrates in the forest so much, she could communicate with the animals and the legend says that she manifests its presence in a beautiful blue butterfly. The Venezuelan beliefs or realities says that she is the Queen of the Venezuelan Indigenous Cortes:

  Queen María Lionza: their virtues are the kindness, the love and the peace. Goddess of the waters.

  Cacique Guaicaipuro:  their virtues are the wisdom, the justice and the patience. God of the wind.

  Black Felipe:               their virtues are the loyalty and the happiness. Their element is the earth.

  Black Francisca:          their virtue is the harmony and its element is the wind.

  Black Tomasa:             their virtue is the love and its element the water.

  Mary Rodriguez:         their virtues are wisdom, vitality and audacity. Their element is the air.

Other entities exist in Venezuela that they are you would originate of other countries:

        Great Chaman of the court Caribbean: consultant and healer.

        Nicanor Ochoa: their virtues are the wisdom and the humility.

                        Earthly images of some Entities:

Cacique Guacaipuro and             Mary Rodriguez                      Black Franchesca   

Cacique Tamanaco

     Great Chaman of Caribbean

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