Patakis

A behind review of Ocha'ni Lele"'s elder Experience OF THE SANTERIA GODS" got me principles about the benefit of story, legend and story in medicine with the Wonderful. Ocha'ni has done a astonishing job of bringing the patakis to a wider viewers. He's as well done a sizable service to diviners by dispensing an caged spread at the cowries. I'm wondering if he (and others) could shortage to watching on my theories on their linguistical and cultural measure within Lukumi culture. (The customary caveats included: while I accept a somnolent fish with Lukumi and decades of sensation as a mystic, I'm not an initiate in any Orisha tradition). To me, the patakis are stories which hint at the meanings after everything else each of the odus. They give out roughage to the divinatory ecology by dispensing blab examples of the odu's feeling in any unchangeable notice. Yet at the self-same time they are workable a lot to apply to a species of situations and sufficient outcomes. Querents can words compound roles within these stories: their part can be fixed to the pin-up, the lowlife or the intercessors. Extra elements within the client's life - indicate lovers, organization associates, allies and obstacles - can be called concerning service within this acting.Inconvenience and solutions stimulus be found within unrelated patakis. The story which tells the querent's fragility may be met by a story which gives him a character of power, or at minimum a indicate escape. Proscriptions and warnings may be unchangeable absolutely or allegorically, as the notice strain. One may find interval or may learn that a lot has been foreordained, one which cannot be avoided but can merely be endured. In any procession, the querent's life is fixed to eternal patterns and to lasting stories: they at once interpret and become the myth. Patakis allow for big extent in own interpretation: a pataki's trace may substitute amongst practitioners and houses. But the stories "as they are heard" are preserved with sizable care: one learns them from elders and protects them from outsiders. Their trace are preserved overcome with the multitude knotty rituals that work out whether an odu fall for good or ill and what understanding one requirement make to propitiate the equal spirit. These constraints may induce the mystic and querent to slant unbending truths. At hand is less room to whitewash a bad bearer of news, less space to wish for discussing the failings which led up to the established notice. Its harshness grass less room for weasel words and shirking.(I'm reminded of the similarly-complex horary astrology which played such an important character in Renewal magic. They had since normal convention and gave very exhaustive, if over and over again harsh, predictions. Now this give somebody the job of of reading has fallen out of favor: it's designed best to accentuate the desirable aspects of a reading and downplay that which is set to approach. However I can attach importance to the measure of favorable querents to pay tribute to a desirable stall, I as well revelation if we haven't sacrificed everything in the way of dainty and unaffectedness). The cowries dash the future for good and for ill. Querents may learn that they necessity refinement helpful and fast initiation ceremonies: they may be hit with taboos and margins, chided on their bad lifestyle and told that wallop and even death lie quick for them. The patakis endeavor ways in which capture and fracture may be met with agility and land. The meaning may or may not give out querents with some way of getting away from suffering: it stimulus inevitably give out some obtain of meaning to their spasm.From the Kenaz Filan Bloghttp://kenazfilan.blogspot.com