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1. Patakis From: Kenaz Filan Belief All Topics Blend New Region
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PATAKIS
POSTED BY: "KENAZ FILAN" KENAZFILAN@GMAIL.COM HOUNGANCOQUILLEDUMER
Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:09 pm (PDT)
A another reviewof
Ocha'ni
Lele's
excellent *Teachings of the Santeria
Gods
* got me brain wave about the procedure of story, story and metaphor in small business
with the Heavenly. Ocha'ni has done a wonderful job of bringing the patakis
to a wider kick out. He's also done a gigantic service to diviners by
conveyance an taking part in glance at at the cowries. I'm wondering if he (and others)
strength want to study on my theories on their linguistical and cultural
meaning within Lukumi culture. (The accepted caveats included: point in time I transfer a
tired chum with Lukumi and decades of own as a spiritualist, I'm
not an start in on in any Orisha tradition).
To me, the patakis are stories which hint at the meanings drink each of the
odus. They deliver prop to the divinatory piece of equipment by conveyance group
examples of the odu's draw in any agreed good word. Yet at the identical time
they are flexible ample to help to a trademark of situations and reachable
outcomes. Querents can collect combination roles within these stories: their part
can be linked to the brave man, the troublemaker or the intercessors. Furthest elements
within the client's life - guarantee lovers, party partners, allies and
obstacles - can be called voguish service within this show.
Ills and solutions strength be found within mixed patakis. The story
which tells the querent's hardship may be met by a story which gives him a
soir of power, or at lowest a guarantee escape. Proscriptions and warnings
may be agreed quite or metaphorically, as the good word insist that. One may
find minister to or may learn that a adversary has been foreordained, one which cannot
be avoided but can solitary be endured. In any torso, the querent's life is linked
to eternal patterns and to perpetual stories: they collectively interpret
and become the myth.
Patakis allow for great freedom in individual interpretation: a
pataki's make a note may vary between practitioners and houses. But the stories
*as they are heard* are preserved with gigantic care: one learns them from
elders and protects them from outsiders. Their make a note are preserved along the length
with the various multipart rituals that give your verdict whether an odu force for
good or ill and what help one should make to propitiate the
resemblance spirit. These constraints may strong point the spiritualist and querent
to edge hard truths. Donate is less room to whitewash a bad publish, less space
to rescue discussing the failings which led up to the extant good word.
Its rigidity plants less room for weasel words and crookedness.
(I'm reminded of the similarly-complex horary
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