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Episode 106: Orisha Deities
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Welcome back witches!! We hope you're ready for another deity episode!! This time we're taking you on a journey through 2 extremely important and interesting deities that are part of the Orisha Pantheon of Africa!. So get in witches while we discuss the Orisha Deities, Oshun & Aja.
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References:
- Amplify Africa. The Ancient Beliefs of African Goddesses. https://www.amplifyafrica.org/the-ancient-beliefs-of-african-goddesses/
- Atma, Kiran. Goddess Aja. https://goddess.kiranatma.com/2021/06/goddess-aja.html
- Wiggington, Patti. Gods and Goddesses of Healing. (2019). Learn Religions. https://www.learnreligions.com/gods-and-goddesses-of-healing-2561980
- Joshua J. Mark (2021). Oshun. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/Oshun/
- Nova Scott James (n.d.). Ori Ye Ye O: Honoring the Yoruba Goddess Oshun. The Alchemists Kitchen. https://wisdom.thealchemistskitchen.com/ori-ye-ye-o-yoruba-goddess-oshun/
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Transcript
Introduction to Witchcraft & Yoruba Religion
00:00:01
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Do you feel drawn to learn more about witchcraft and the occult, but feel lost on where to start? Then welcome to Get In, Loser. We're doing Witchcraft, a podcast all about what it means to be a witch and where to get started on your journey. Join us as we navigate through various witchy topics and share what we have learned about the craft. So get in, witches, as we explore the magic of Western Africa and the Yoruba religion in our newest daily episode.
Creative Block & Setting Up Ritual Spaces
00:00:51
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So I'm excited for Alexis to come. I'm hoping that she will be present on maybe a book club or podcast episode since she'll be there for a month. She probably like to do something. Yeah, I would love that. She likes to be like creative, but she hasn't been loving where she's at. And so it's making it hard for her because she, you know, she used to have a cute little YouTube channel.
00:01:19
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Yeah, she did like little videos and stuff. Oh my god, I love your YouTube channel. Me too. I was telling her about like, I was like, you should start doing that again. She was just like, I just don't love my space right now. And I was like, I love my space. It's just not like ready. You know, and until it's already, I'm just like, yeah.
00:01:39
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same like it's hard for me sometimes too to like get really even like when it comes to like all of the like rituals I want to do it's hard for me to even get the will or want to do it still because our house is still not what I want it and so like sometimes it's like I have to force myself to do a ritual and I'm like it shouldn't be that way yeah um and so it's frustrating like I haven't done anything since we've
00:02:09
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gotten here really, because I have this vision of what I want my space to be, my office, apothecary space. But until everything gets here, because I'm still waiting on, I ordered a bunch of rugs. So I got this huge green rug to go in the middle of my room that I'm putting my island on, where I work my tea stuff. And then I got two of the rugs yesterday. They're faux fur rugs.
00:02:36
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They're so nice. I got them off of Teemu for like $1. I've never ordered off of Teemu. They're huge. Because I was like, I don't want to buy expensive fur. I don't want to get real fur rugs. And then faux fur rugs in the store over here are also really expensive because I'm putting them down in a basement, first of all, like my office. I stole a room out of our basement because I loved it.
00:03:03
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But also like with the animals, I don't want to buy like really nice rugs and then the cats go down there and like scratch them up or whatever. So I was like, I wonder if Teemu has anything. I got one of the rugs, one of the faux fur rugs and it's really fucking nice. So I'm kind of like mind blown. This is $13 and it's like four foot long. Dang. Yeah. So it's like a runner rug that I'm going to put in front of my, um, like apothecary shelves.
00:03:31
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so that I have like a little rug to stand on while I'm like pulling out herbs and stuff. So it's like four foot by a little over two feet wide, just like a runner. And it's so soft, so nice. And it was 13, well 13 euro because we pay euro for tea moo over here, which is fine. And then the other one I think was 15 or 16 and it's just as big. I think that one's actually a tiny bit bigger, but
00:03:58
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So, cause the fake ones in the store are like 60 to 200 Euro. Yeah, that is really cool. They're like really nice, really plush, so soft. I'm so excited to have like, it's just going to be a whole vibe down there. But once it's there and like everything's set up, I feel like then I'll be like more, like I'll want to do stuff. Like right now I just don't want to, like it's not set up. It's not how I want it. I don't want to do it, you know?
00:04:29
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I feel the same. It's just hard to get the motivation.
Challenges in Witchcraft Practice & Appreciation for Supporters
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But that's the thing with magic. It ebbs and flows. Your motivational oven flow. And if you aren't super wanting to do anything right now, that's fine. You don't have to be doing a ritual every week. We've talked about this before too because I was just looking through our supercast because
00:04:56
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We failed last episode to give Michelle her shout out for our Supercast subscriber. I know. They're awful. Because we're the worst. Life's been crazy. And then after we recorded, I was like, no, we forgot. But shout out to Michelle. We love you to keep subscribing. Thank you so much for that. I was on our Supercast this morning looking through some stuff.
00:05:23
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that was one of our frequently asked questions was like, what happens when you hit a rut? And so we had talked about that on the podcast before. And it just reminded me of all of this stuff. I'm like, yeah, sometimes that happens. It's fine. You're fine. You're doing great. Yes. Yeah. It's okay when that happens because it happens to all of us. We're not always going to be like,
00:05:47
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what you see on Instagram, like, you know, those those people who are like, oh, yeah, I do a ritual all the time. And I didn't maybe there are people out there that do that. But I I highly doubt it. And I feel like anyone who tries to tell you that, you know, they have their whole week planned out around rituals and they like do all the things that, you know, they're probably lying to you. Like, well, what kind of life do you live? Because my day to day is crazy.
00:06:15
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Like it's not always the same. I can't have the same schedule every day. How do you get that? Where is that? Do you buy it on Amazon? Right, yeah. I need more time. Even like incorporating things around, like this is why we talk about incorporating the mundane into the magical and even those little things.
00:06:33
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can be magical, but even if you don't even acknowledge it because you're so busy, it's okay. It's okay. But yeah, but we're not talking about that today. No, we're
Exploring the Yoruba Religion & Orisha Deities
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not. We're not.
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We're feeling it, but we're not talking about it. We're feeling it, though. What are we talking about? I think it's an eclipse season. Maybe. Maybe. Geez. When this releases, hopefully everybody will need better headspace, but we are recording this right in the middle of eclipse season, and I'm going to tell you what, it is getting hard. It's been rough. It's been rough.
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So, yeah. This has been a wild time in our lives. It really is, yeah. But this is another day in the episode. Yeah, I'm excited for this one. I'm excited to explore more about this because this is, you know, like you just said, it's a new pantheon. It's something we've never discussed before. Some of the words in relation to this pantheon were familiar to me. But outside of that, I'm like, wow, this is incredibly new. I don't know anything about this, but it was fun to learn about.
00:07:40
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Yeah, yeah. This is a good dipping our toes in episode, I think. And I don't know how... I had an idea when we started talking about doing a deity episode. I was like, I know three specific deities at this point that I'm interested in because I had been looking something up. And so I was like, I just told you, I was like, we could either do Celtic, was it, I think Norse.
00:08:09
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Oh, I think it was Greco-Roman, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Greco-Roman, Celtic, or this one. And we were like, let's do this one. We've never done any of these deities. It's a whole new video to us. So these are Orisha deities. And they're part of the Yoruba people, like their religion, which is it's like the Yoruba people, the Yoruba religion of the Yoruba region. So yeah.
00:08:38
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So I don't, like I'm still not a hundred percent sure if they're considered Yoruba deities or I know that they're like Orisha is the group. So I'm not sure if it's like Yoruba deities or Orisha deities, but either way, we're doing one of those, whichever it is. I still couldn't get like clear clarification on that part, like on the internet, but
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Um, I, you know, I had this like specific deity. I already knew who I wanted to do in, in those three pantheons. And, um, when you were like, Oh, let's do this one. I was like, sweet. And then I started researching and I was like, there is hardly any information on her. Like I had, it took me a while to find like the information that I did find, but I loved everything about her. She's perfect.
00:09:27
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Just to kind of start us off, in trying to make sure that we cover deities as diversely as possible, like I said, we're going to be covering two deities from the Yoruba people of Africa. This group is considered the most well-known West African ethnic group in the world due to their vast population within West Africa. And of course, because many of their people were wrongfully enslaved in that ugly piece of history, their influences are popular in religions like Bodan, Santeria,
00:09:56
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uh, Kondomble and Makumba. And the Yoruba religion is one of the most prevalent West African religions, both in Africa and the Americas. And their pantheon has, this is like really confusing because a lot of their, um, like a lot of their information is, it's like orally done. It's not written down. So it's either they have 400 plus
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1, which is considered a holy number, 700, or 1,440 deities in this pantheon that are all part of the Orisha, depending on the oral tradition. So this is likely going to be the first of many episodes covering Yoruba or Orisha deities.
00:10:46
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Yeah. I'm excited to learn more about all of them. And if you are one of our followers or if you are a listener of this podcast and you know more about this pantheon and this religion, please reach out to us. Let us know who is a deity that you most likely connect to. We're really interested. We love to learn more. So yes.
00:11:12
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So to kick it off, I'm going to start with the deity O'Shan.
Deep Dive into O'Shan, Yoruba Goddess
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And it's spelled like O-S-H-U-N, but it's pronounced O'Shan. So just as an FYI there. O'Shan is a supernatural entity, both recognized as a spirit and a goddess in the Yoruba religion.
00:11:36
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To add more to what Tiffany just talked about related to the Yoruba religion and traditions, the Yoruba religion developed in what is now modern-day Nigeria circa 300 BCE
00:11:50
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around the city of, I forgot to look up how to say this city. So I don't know if it's if or if, but it's ife or ilif, which was an area that really flourished between the 11th through the 15th century CE.
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O'Shan is the goddess of fertility, freshwater, and love, and she is the patroness of the Osan River in Nigeria. She's honored annually at the Osan Osagbo Festival, and she's the youngest of the Orishas and is either considered the daughter of Yamaya, who is the mother of waters, or her younger sister, depending on what version of her story you're reading.
00:12:33
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So it just kind of depends. But we'll hear a little bit more about Yemaya a little bit later on in her lore. But in the Yoruba religion, as Tiffany said, it really just depends on where you're getting your sources from and who is telling you this, because most of this is orally passed down. There's not as many records as there would be in say, for instance, like Christianity, because, you know,
00:13:01
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not to get totally off topic, but you know, history is written by the victors, which sucks because we lose a lot of fucking culture and history this way. But there are 400 plus one Arishas and this number 400 plus one, it is a holy number, but it also suggests that the Arishas can't be numbered and will always require a plus one, basically indicating that they're infinite. And the Arishas,
00:13:30
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when I was researching more about it that said that they are avatars of the supreme deity of Olodimer who created the universe. Olodimer is neither male nor female and they're referred to as they or it and they are too powerful to be fully understood by the human brain.
00:13:49
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O'Shan is one of these Arishas. She is said to be the favorite of Olodumare and at the beginning of creation Olodumare sent 17 Arishas to Earth to basically finish setting everything right and of these six Arishas, 16 were male and the 17th was O'Shan. The story goes that the 16
00:14:11
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male Orishas ignored her. They didn't take her suggestion seriously, and they didn't want to work with her at all. And essentially- Typical. Yeah, typical man, right? Typical. Yeah. Essentially, they failed in their mission of making Earth a place where
00:14:29
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you know, life can exist and it'd be beautiful and everything works together. And they had to explain to Ola Demare why they failed at making Earth or making life on Earth beautiful. And essentially they were basically told like, get your shit together, go work with O'Shan. So they went back to O'Shan and begged for her forgiveness and they ended up working together to create the beauty of Earth.
00:14:57
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During this time when she was sent to Earth, she didn't really have a realm of power of her own. She was an Orisha and she was powerful and she was working to make the Earth a better place, but she wasn't known for this goddess of fresh water or rivers or anything like that.
00:15:17
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And so one day she was walking when Ogun, the Lord of Metallurgy, noticed her beauty and began to follow her. And her attempts to get away from him because, of course, he was fucking pursuing her and not getting the fucking hint. She fell into a river and was whirling downstream when Yamaya, who I mentioned earlier, saw her and rescued her.
00:15:42
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Yamaya gifted her sweet water and rivers as her domain so that she would always have a place to call home. And that is whenever she inherited this realm of power, essentially. So going into a little bit more lore and symbolism related to O'Shan, her power is both creative and destructive. So floods and droughts are due to her and they
00:16:06
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are said that it's due to either the actions of people who fail to honor her or the actions of people because they have treated the land without proper respect. And O'Shan helps women who are seeking or who are trying to seek a relationship
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are pregnant or are hoping to become pregnant, and she is honored by both men and women for luck, strength, during challenges or change, and for prosperity. She's also associated with the peacock as a symbol of transformation, as a vulture linked to death, rebirth, intelligence,
00:16:41
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skunks as a symbol of self-determination and protection, otters for playfulness and joy, and butterflies and bees for happiness, change, and of course, fertility. And she's also associated with the color gold and orange and with honey. Through the horrors of the slave trade, she was brought to areas in the Caribbean and the South, Central North America,
00:17:05
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and due to her people being sold, of course, into the slave trade. And as we know from our New Orleans episode, the Yoruba religion continued to be practiced alongside Christianity, and she is an important figure in, you know, a lot of the religions that Tiffany was mentioning earlier, like Santeria, Vudan, and Candomble. In Protestant U.S., O'Shan was syncretized with the Virgin Mary, and in Candomble in Brazil, O'Shan became known as Oksam,
00:17:34
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And in Santeria and Vodan, she was honored through the use of a baby. She is depicted as kind, benevolent, and merciful. She is understood as the deity, especially sympathetic to difficulties of transition, change in loss, and she is a comfort to those who are grieving or are trying to start a new life. She is also depicted as having human qualities as well.
00:18:00
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so that she's more relatable and so there's a story which honestly this kind of sounds like not something that I would do but I can relate to this so I don't like I guess that makes her more relatable but whatever so the story goes she's the second wife of Shango and he is the god of thunder lightning and justice and
00:18:24
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And his first wife is Oba, and she's another orisha of domesticity, time, and the Oba River. So O'Shan becomes jealous of Oba when she, Oba, asks O'Shan to make a special dish for Shango. So before preparing this meal, O'Shan covers her head in a scarf, and she covers her ears. Then she adds mushrooms to the dish that look like her ear.
00:18:54
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So like it kind of like makes it seem like she's serving shango, her ears, right? As like, you know, you have my body in you type of thing, right? So she gives it to shango who enjoys the meal. He eats it, he slurps it up. He's like, this is the best shit ever, whatever. So this in turn makes Oba pissed off and she's like jealous.
00:19:16
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So she thinks that O'Shan really cut her fucking ear off and served it to their husband. So she goes and cuts her own fucking ear off and serves it in a dish to Shango, who is disgusted and refused to eat the dish. And of course, like O'Shan is like standing in the corner, like laughing her ass off because Oba's stupid. I'm not saying, okay, I shouldn't say that about a deity, but also like, why would you do that?
00:19:47
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So anyway, there's a couple of other stories where it kind of depicts her being more like a human or having more negative qualities to her, like jealousy and whatnot. But I thought this one was the best one. That is hilarious. Yeah, but also like, don't do that. He's like, why is your hair in my suit? Right, like what? Yeah.
00:20:10
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So if you are interested in O'Shan and you want to honor her with an altar, it is recommended to give her her own altar and not share with any other deity. So what you want to do is use gold and orange to honor her, whether that be with cloths or candles or flowers, any of those things that you can bring in of those colors will be great.
00:20:39
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And you can arrange your altar with mirrors, peacock fans, glittering ornaments and perfumes. And then as far as offerings go, you'll want to include things like honey, sunflowers, oranges, pumpkins, gold candles, orange candles, representations of the sun. And something that you can give as an offering to her is an orange. So what you'll want to do is slice it into five pieces and drizzle the orange with honey.
00:21:08
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and you can create your own prayer. Or if you look at our show notes, there is an amazing prayer that's already been written up by Miss Nova Scott James, and she's from the Alchemist's kitchen.
00:21:26
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So if you're interested in an ocean prayer that is already completed, you can do that as well. Or you can create your own, which I would recommend anyway, just because it's more symbolic and it's more personable. And I feel like deities would prefer that more than one that you just found off the internet. But whatever way you want to do it, that is an amazing way that you can honor her.
00:21:50
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That is what I have on O'Shan. There is more that I didn't include, because obviously if I did, we'd be here all day. We could probably have an entire episode just on O'Shan. But I did not do that for you guys. And now I'm excited to hear what, Tiffany, what deity you were talking about.
Introduction to Aja, Woodland Goddess
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Yes. So I'm going to be talking about Aja.
00:22:14
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There's not a ton of information out there on her and everything like every website was just repetitive of the same information. So there's not a ton, but the information I found I absolutely love.
00:22:26
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So Ajaja is known as wild wind or wild vine as well. And she is a West African woodland goddess. And she's also considered a rare African earth goddess who cures the sick with herbs while protecting the forest and woodland creatures. She's said to be very kind and to always reveal herself to humans in a very peaceful and humble manner. And she's known to be a great healer.
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And the reason she's considered a rare earth goddess, and I thought this was so funny, is because she is like, she reveals herself to humans in such a kind manner and not in a manner to harm them or scare them apparently. So that's like a rare quality in these like Orisha deities that normally they're not like as kind to humans or they think it's like funny to scare them.
00:23:18
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So like the way that they like reveal themselves, they do it in like a scary manner apparently. And she's just like super chill and super peaceful and calm and nice. So apparently that makes her rare. So she's the patron on the forest, the animals within it and the herbal healers whom she taught their art. She's said to be humanoid in appearance, but she only stands between one and two feet tall. So she's like a little tiny, like a little tiny deity, which makes me think of
00:23:48
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uh, Khonshu from like the Egyptian pantheon. Sometimes like he like only appears as this tiny little deity. So I think it's like, I don't, my brain was like making connections when I was doing this because I covered Khonshu before. And I was like, this is such an odd like thing, like an odd connection because you don't see something like that very often. So Ajah is a very popular Arisha.
00:24:14
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Nigerian deities because she is said to represent the soul of the woodland and the creatures inside it as well as homegrown healers. She's revered as a wise woman and a healer and she is said to rule the therapeutic plants of the woodlands. And those that follow Aja learn herbal knowledge from her. So this basically
00:24:38
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When they learn from her, they believe that this guarantees their own bodily and spiritual well-being. And she's considered to be the spirit that taught all other healers the healing ways. Like basically everyone that is a healer that's come after her is thought to have learned from her. She also represents a universal principle of environmental care and protection. And she teaches us how to have empathy for the natural world.
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and believes that a well-balanced empathy is the strategy that prevents environmental degradation, destruction, and ecological anguish. Aja protects the forest because it's the home to the trees that support life for all living things. She is a botanist who knows all there is to know about plants and is the master of potions and healing herbs. As far as lore and stories about Aja, there's not a whole lot that I was able to find.
00:25:34
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So basically there's just a couple. So the story goes that while she's out in the forest spending time in her domain, she would spend time finding and studying plants with medicinal properties. And she would mix the herbs and roots and other plant parts together to find cures for the sick in the area. And she shared much of her knowledge with humans
00:26:00
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And she was often said to just be waiting for someone to come and find her and ask for this knowledge. It was also widely known that she enjoyed sharing her knowledge with shamans that were in training. And then there's also this belief that like, I don't know if it's just like, oh, someone like left town for a little bit and they're like, where'd they go without telling anybody? But the belief is that like, if someone gets carried away by a jaw as the wild wind,
00:26:29
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and then is allowed to return, that they then become a powerful juju man or a bulbalawa. And this journey is said to last over a duration of either like from seven days up to three months, and that the person is thought to have gone, and again, this comes down to oral tradition, so it depends on where the story is coming from, but they've either gone to the land of the dead, or they've gone to heaven.
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And those that return are said to have gained Ajah's magical abilities. So that's basically it as far as like lore or stories or mythology covering Ajah. I found several websites that said these same three things over and over and over again. And I was like, God, I want to know more. So if Ajah is somebody that you would want to like work with,
00:27:23
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Something you could do is spend some time learning about the Yoruba people, the Orishas and Oja herself. Like if this isn't a culture that you come from, chances are that your knowledge on this culture is minimal at best. So make sure you take the time to understand the history and the practices of the culture. And as we always say, if something says it's a closed practice, that means it's not for you. If you didn't come from that like culture or practice,
00:27:50
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So I didn't come across anything specific to Ajah that stated it was a closed practice, but again, this episode isn't focused on the practice, it's focused on the deities. So just be mindful of that when you're going forward. You can create an altar space dedicated to Ajah. Your altar could include things like a statue of her, which I found some art and statues of her that were just absolutely beautiful. Representations of woodland animals.
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representations of the forest and anything pertaining to herbalism, herbal medicine, and medicinal plants.
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could spend time in nature especially if you have a forest near you because that was her domain. Anything and everything relating to herbalism, pertaining to healing specifically, this can be like learning about herbal medicine and then putting into practice. It can also be about like learning about the local plants in your area that can be used in herbal practice or take it a step further and you can spend time learning about the
00:28:53
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medicinal plants that came from the forests and woodlands of West Africa, since they're the plants that were like sacred to a jaw. Or maybe even just growing your own verbal healing garden.
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And lastly, you can also spend time advocating for caring for and protecting the environment. Since, as I shared earlier, Aja represents a universal principle of environmental care and protection. I couldn't find anything on correspondences for Aja, but like, again, I would say like woodland creatures think about like animals that would be in a forest or, you know,
00:29:32
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pine cones or something like that. I would think that would be like relevant, but there's nothing like on the internet or YouTube or TikTok. I literally tried every source I could think of. Um, and I just, I couldn't find anything. So I would probably like trust your gut on this one. Like what, like, what are your instincts on you? Like colors wise, I'd probably say like forest colors, like colors of the earth, you know,
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since she's a rare earth deity. But as far as like clear cut the internet, like this source says this, there's nothing. But honestly, that is all I could find. But there is some artwork and some really beautiful statues that people have created of her. I would definitely go look them up. Just to kind of wrap this episode up, you know, something that
00:30:29
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we talk a lot about when it comes to practicing anything is understanding whether or not it's a closed practice, understanding whether or not it is appropriation versus appreciation and whatnot.
Respecting Closed Practices and Cultural Appreciation
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So the question that I was wondering while researching this is, can you as someone who is not of African descent or should you honor spiritual traditions of the Yoruba and
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I was reading an article by Nova Scott James, who I mentioned earlier. She's an artist, a witch, and an innovation doula, and she runs the Alchemist Kitchen, and her information is linked in our show notes. I think she sums it up perfectly. So she says that exploring what spiritual practices your ancestors were dedicated to is the best thing that you can do. And while you can practice, from her point of view,
00:31:24
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honoring the deities of the Yoruba culture is not necessarily a closed practice. And there's a difference between appreciation and appropriation, which we've discussed before. But according to Ms. Nova, she says that there is a power in discovering what your ancestors practice, and you should take time to find that information and tailor it to your own practice. So why there's nothing wrong
00:31:46
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with honoring the Yoruba culture and these deities as if you're not from this culture, be mindful of the fact that there are a lot of people out there who don't really have the option to explore much of their past based on the slave trade. And so it might be better to just take this time to explore your own ancestry, see where your ancestors came from,
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outside of just where you are now outside of colonialization and just taking this time to research your own roots and base that practice off of that because that's I believe as well it's going to be the most powerful and the most individualistic. I love that you included that because I struggled a little bit with like what information do you share about this topic as someone who's not like part of that culture or
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You know, like these aren't deities that I really know much. I don't know anything about any of these deities. And I don't know anything about like the Yoruba religion. So I was trying to like tread carefully on like what was shared because again, there wasn't a lot out there because a lot of these are oral traditions within the culture. So I love that you included that.
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Like we can have listeners, you know, that are part of that culture. And if we do, we'd love to hear like what you thought about the episode or, you know, if there's information that you think like we did, we just didn't get right or, you know, something that was like missed. We'd love to know because this is, again, it's not something we know anything about, but we try to be as diverse in our information as we can, but also being very clear that like,
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if this isn't like part of your culture, if don't do that kind of thing. So I love that you included that.
Conclusion & Listener Engagement
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