BARON DEL CEMENTERIO / BARON OF THE CEMETERY AND THE GHEDE

BARON DEL CEMENTERIO 

 BARON OF THE CEMETERY

AND THE GHEDE

 

 

 

 

The Ghede are not the Guia Espirituales "Gide Lespri" of ones Cuadro Espiritual persay, as the Ghede march to their own drum.  They as a division can bring comfort as much as they can bring fear, they can sustain life, as they can feast on death.  They can be happy and at the same time stern.  They can bring comfort and bring fear, and of all the Mysteries and Divisions; none is as mysterious and as unpredictable as the Ghede.  

Of the Gede family also spelled Ghuede, Ghede or Guede ( I will use variations of the spelling through out this blog post ). none is as widely known as el Baron del Cementerio.  He is the ancient Lwa and guardian of the Cemetery and graveyards, and is the Lwa who has a foot in both planes of existence, one foot in the realm of the living and one foot in the realm of the dead.  He is often known as the rebel and disobedient Lwa, who passes death at a drop of a hat.  The Cemetery and graveyards are his playground, his kingdom and his domain here on earth, and as with many places on earth, it is considered a "Punto" of pure magical energy and within its walls egoists an energy that can strike fear, terror, wonder, peace, awe and sorrow within the hearts of humanity.   In Spanish it is known as el Camposanto and it is in this place that el Baron del Cementerio reigns as King.  It is in these sacred sites and hollowed grounds that our dead, and our ancestors reside, and it is in this area where for many, after death, our humanly remains will reside. 

The eldest male tomb of any given Cemetery is also viewed as a Punto of much sacred energy, for it is this tomb that is the sacred shrine of el Baron del Cementerio.  It does not matter if the eldest tomb is that of a male infant, child or that of a male adult who lived until ripe old age, it is here where el Baron del Cementerio manifests his energy on earth.  It is at the oldest grave and at the entrance to the cemetery where el Baron del Cementerio keeps his watchful eyes on all those who enter and leave.  It is at this Punto where practitioners of Haitian Vodou, Dominican 21 Division and the Puerto Rican Sance tradition make and leave their Servicios to el Gran Baron del Cementerio and his Division.  He is known as the leader of the Ghede Division, their King, their Ruler, their Priest their Father and their Godfather, their Jefe, for the Ghede can not do anything without first consulting with el Baron del Cementerio. 

Offerings to el Baron del Cementerio are always left at either the entrance of the graveyard or before the oldest male tomb.  If the tomb has a Cross or a Crucifix this is sacred to el Baron del Cementerios vuelta known as el Baron de la Cruz, and if you are good at remembering dates and know for a fact that the person was buried on a Saturday then Baron del Sabado ( Baron Samedi / Sabalo ) comes into play, if the oldest grave is that of a female, then La Baronesa, La Barona or Mama Buyita are Queens of the sacred grounds.  The offerings known as servicios are always placed before the tomb on a punto firmado and three crosses or exes with cascarilla or red brick are drawn upon the tomb and a punto firmado is drawn with corn meal  Offerings to the Baron del Cementrio and the Ghede are always spicy and hot; dark rum soaked in hot peppers, jalapeños or habaneros, fried sweet plantains, rice and beans, food with much spice, unfiltered cigarettes, pork rhinds, ice cold strong unsweetened coffee, popcorn, seeds and peanuts. Which are placed within a jiguera and on top of the Punto firmado which is comprised of  crosses, a coffin, a shovel, a pick, a top hat and skulls, drawn with the corn meal and are all sacred symbols of the dead and the cemetery.  All this is often surrounded by 9 candles of red, purple black and at times yellow, which are placed around the tomb.   Servicios are often done on Tuesdays, or Fridays, at 12 noon, or 12 midnight.

GRAN BARON DEL CEMENTERIO

( 9 is the number of the dead and purple and red is the color of royalty. )

Each corner or cardinal point of the Cemetery is protected by a Centinela, there is Boco Tebú Tecacho "North", Abúm "South", A Lembó "East" and Cacique, Rey de la "Encabezá "West" and those who become initiated into Sance and 21 Division are instructed on where they are properly located and who these Centinela where in life.  But each simple offerings must always be presented to them first, then crossed before you and placed on the Punto firmado before the tomb.

Offerings are placed in potato sacks, or a jicara / jiguera and a pave woven hat are placed on top of the tomb, with a pair of sunglasses that is missing one of the lenses.

The Ghede spirits including el Baron del Cementerio and all his vueltas are never truly satisfied, they are gluttonous spirits who are the first to partake of all animal sacrifices given within Vodou, Palo and Santeria, ( Yes the Gede are part of the Ocha tradition, Orisha such as Oya, Yewa and Iku are Ghede ) and at the very moment of death when the Ghede consume, it is el Gran Baron del Cementerio who stands before them.  The Guede have an unquenchable thirst for the essence of death and the Ghede always feed when life is lost through murder, natural causes. accidents, through a freak of nature, or when another Orisha or Lwa in their natural environment needs to feed, it is the Ghede who feast first.

( Roadside Descansos are also sacred to the Ghede Division especially that of el Baron de la Cruz and Mama Buyita. )

Although the Ghede are spirits of death, the Baron del Cementerio who is also the Angel of Death and the Ghede are also known for being great healers and  guardians of children and can heal those very things that may bring death or even prolong it.  It does not matter the age, financial statues, religious views or race, the Ghede will mount all, at least once in this lifetime, even if its through the physical death if the body.. 

The Baron del Cementerio has three major vueltas that I have spoken of earlier and each is syncretized with a Catholic Saint, as is the case with most Lwa. ( The Catholic Saint is what we use most to depict our Lwa. )   El Baron del Cementerio is syncretized with Saint Elijah of Mount Carmel, Baron de la Cruz or Papa Ghede as he is also known is syncretized with Saint Gerard de Mayela and Gede Sabalo or Baron del Sabado is syncretized with Saint Expedite, or vise a versa depending on the practitioner.

GHEDE

 

 

 

PAPA GHEDE

 

 



Although the Ghede manifest their energy when ever they so choose, it is during the night, darkness and sleep when our senses are heightened that we feel their presence the most. It was as it is still today when the great Necromancers unknowingly invoked the Ghede, and for this very reason why el Baron or one of his vueltas is viewed at their patron Lwa.   Through the use of blood and invoking the dead is when the Ghede are present, whether the person knows them, or calls them by other names, they are their.

The Ghede are also spirits of great sexual energy, and all intranquil spirits, espiritus atrasados, anima solas and burlones work under them and are below them.  They manifest themselves in their human followers as those who enjoy things Gothic, dark, and unfaboding to the eyes of the normal societies standards of what is viewed as the norm. Although the Ghede are tricksters and lively spirits that enjoy sexual encounters, they will at a drop of a hat punish those who disrespect them with depression and suicidal thoughts.  They also manifest within humans in those who are interested in the occult and arcane secrets, witchcraft, sorcery and black magic practices and are as quick to answer ones desires as they are quick to punish those who tamper with them in any disrespectful way. 

In Haitain Vodou el Gran Baron del Cementerio is known as Barón Cimitière, Baron de la Cruz is Barón Le Croix and el Baron del Sabado is Barón Samedhi, his most ancient name is that of Gede Nimbo and his consort is La Barona, Gran Maman, or Mamman Brigitte and La Baronesa, and together they feast on the essence of death and spawn new children, from the begging of time until the end of time.  Although they fathered many children two of their eldest are Ti Gede "Piti Gette" and Gede Zaina. (The Adam and Eve of the Lwa Pantheon.).  But this I will get into further along in this post.

 

GUEDE LACUÁ, GUEDE SOMBI

 AND GUEDE CEMITIEL.

 

GUEDE LACUA

 

Guede Lacua manifests himself as the spirit of that who is the oldest grave in any given graveyard or cemetery.  This is especially true if the boveda has a Cross upon it.   Often when speaking of the Ghede the first misiterpertation one gets is that they are muertos, which in further study of the Ghede one will learn

that this is far from the truth.   Yes the Guede are the Spirits of the Dead, but they are also Lwa, they are Misterios, and like no other Division they are minions of Ghede, multitudes and many.  Each country has their names for some Ghede and many Ghede appear in every tradition but with obvious difrent spellings of the name.  Gede such as Lacua, Sombi, Senché Cemiché  Guedé Alawe, Guedé Carifu, Guedé Lhea, Guedé Martyin, Guedé Dionisio,  Guedélia Legcua, Guedelina. Luis Guede Gunguna, Guedelia, Guede Bravo, Gongote, Prim Guede, Buyita and so on and so on.

Guede Lacua a vuelta of Baron de la Cruz; who is both Ghede and Lebane, his number is 3 demonstrating his 3 major vueltas and his color is red and black, which symbolizes from life comes death, which makes way for life.  It is for this reason many believe that the Orisha Eleggua is Guede Lacua, I believe its another vuelta in the link that creates the chain as a whole.  If I was to synchronized Eleggua with a Misterio it would be Guedesito or Eleguedesito, which both pertain to the Guede and Lebanes Division at the same time.  But Eleggua is a Nago Spirit an Orisha and must be respected within his own tradition, Division and in his own right.
 
Guede Lacua is also closely associated to the Ogun Nation, and where ever a Desacansos memorial is placed, it is because of the mysteries behind the Ogun division and Guede Lacua.
Guede Lacua is a very important Vuelta, an ancient Vuelta of Baron de la Cruz or Baron la Croix, he is the Ghede that stands at the crossroads, waiting to feast.  He is symbolized by the Crusifix and the Cross, and the black rooster is his messenger here on earth.  He controls over the brain, he can cure or bring illness at the same time. He can give you clarity if the mind but also blind side you. He is the word of reason, but also the word of betrayal.  In this aspect he works closely with Guede Sombi who is the Loa of cerebral damage.  He symbolizes the essence of life, but at the same time the essence of death.  In this aspect Guede Sombi "Zombi" is symbolized by those who suffer cerebral unbalances, such as those in a coma, those with Aleichem's.and those with dementia.  On earth Guede Sombi is viewed as a Cimarrón Ghede and is symbolized by a dead tree, and thus he lives in the woods and forests with some of the Lwa of the Ogun and Bwa Nation and feasts at night within the tombs of graveyards and cemeteries.  He is the Loa who stands at the outskirts of the cemetery, or manifests in places where an unexpected death occurred, for this reason no one knows when he is to come or go.  He is the Ghede who has no place in heaven and no place in hell and so he lives in solitude within the forests between the realm of the living and the realm of the dead.  Services to Ghede Sombi are done on a dead tree or tree trunk within the graveyard or cemetery and seen as the life that grows or lives within the dead tree or trunk, often aguardiente, tobacco are placed and offerings are bundled up in weaved sack cloth and buried.  Ghede Sombi is the spirit of the first person to die of cerebral complications and he is viewed as an ancient old man with wrinkles and scars.  He dislikes water, and prefers his aguardiente, old straw hats, and black or brown fulas.  Like all Guede, Sombi also enjoys Habaneros, dark rum, spicy food and hot peppers, and like all Guede they are the first to consume any fresh offerings.  The act of death and decaying are them, but also the act of other creatures feasting on the offerings.  Even flies which gets them nice and plump for Ghede Aracne or Gede Zaina. 

Ghede Cemitiel is the Loa who is symbolized as the actual grounds of the Graveyards and Cemeteries while his other vuelta is Guede Senche who is the overseer of the cemetery and the gravedigger.  Senche is the godfather of the hollow corpse, as he initiates the body into the sacred rite of burial.  The gateway of the cemetery are symbolized as Cemitiel's mouth, opens the doors for consumption, Senche initiates them, and Lacua places the cross and directs the soul to where it needs to go depending on their acts in life. 

 

GHEDESAS

BRIGUEDA

El Papa Barón as he is often known and his wife Gran Maman Brigitte are the parents of many Lwa and Orisha that govern the Nation of Ghede, some such as Guedelia, Guedelina, Llegua, Filomena Lubana, to name a few, but the youngest and eldest at the same time is the Gede known as Ti Ghede also known as Piti Ghede.  In the new world she is synchrenized with Saint Brigette and also goes by the name Brighuede, Brigwueda, Brigeda, la Pequeña Brigite  or simply Maman Brigette.  Since her mysteries represent the eldest and youngest she is also known as Maman Gede.  This Lwa rarely manifests within ceremonies, but when she does, she comes as a coquette young adult that enjoys flowers, in other vueltas she manifests as an orphaned child, scorned by the hardship of life, and can be a bit quarrelsome and soft spoken at the same time.   But if she manifests as Maman Brigitte, she comes as the righteous judge of the living and the dead who wears a black laced veil and walks with a cane as she uses herbs, holy water, perfume liquor and potions to heal and protect all those around her from an untimely death. 

In other South American traditions she and her other vueltas come as Harlot gypsies, Jezibels and women of the night, that come dancing and are full of seduction, these manifestations often smoke cigarettes, drink anisette liquors, speak in crude tones, laugh and enjoy to dance in the bodies of the Casilla they mount. These female ghede spirits are often the souls of those women who in life were outcasts, such as prostitutes, harlots, alcoholic, drug addicts or abused victims.  In what ever manifistation that they come, which is limited to our human views of good and evil, these Ghuedesas come to offer their spiritual help and advice. 

In whatever manifistation the Ghedesas come they come to offer help and place things in their natural order.  While the Ghede are ofren untamed, and uncantrolable masculine energies of the dead, the Ghedesas egsist through feminine emotions, all they do, and how they act, involves feminine desires and emotions, may it be sorrow, pain, fear, love, lust or grief, and it is only through the Ghedesas that the Ghede can be controled, dominated and tamed.  Ti Guede and her sister Guedesas who are on their way to becoming pure mysteries have the abilities by the grace of Buen Dios and watchful eye of el Gran Baron del Cementerio to help those in need, and they always meet the requests of those who come to them with pure intentions. 

 

GEDE ZAINA

If your are a Hispanic Espiritista, Santero or Sancista, there is no doubt that on your ipod or in your cd collection you have a music collection by Celina y Reutilio, Los Nanis, and of course the classic cd by the Legendary Cuban Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz.  Her album Homenaje a Los Santos is a favorite, and songs to the Orisha, Yemaya, Agayu, Chango and Babalu Aye are sung to Mambo and Salsa music from the late 50s and 60s.  But amongst the songs to the Yoruba Gods, "which is similar to the case of Celina and Reutilio having a song to the Lwa Papa Candelo amongst the Yoruba Orisha" one also in Celia Cruz' cd comes across a song sung to a Lwa from the Guede Division and sung in Haitian Kreyol, the song goes like this.

 

Guede Zaina woy woy, Guede Zaina, Guede Zaina woy woy, Guede Zaina woy woy, Guede Zaina.
 

Guede Zaina, yo fè complo pou yo tchié moin woy woy,
Guede Zaina. Guede Zaina, yo fè complo pou yo tchié moin
woy woy, Guede Zaina
 

Guede Zaina, yo fè complo pou yo tchié moin woy woy,

Guede Zaina'

Guede Zaina or Gede Zaraignee in Haitian Kryol comes from the French word for spider which is Araignée.  So the Guede in the song is a Spider, then the song goes on to say.  'Woy Woy!" Which really has no English translation, but it is an expression of being surprised or caught of guard and in Caribbean Spanish we say "Ai ir Ui" while in English it would be.  "Wow!". Then the following line says.  "yo fe komplo pou yo touye mwen", which is translated to mean.  "They the enemy has comes to kill me.".   So the song is translated to say.

Guede Zaina, Wow Wow! Guede Zaina! 
Guede Zaina, Wow Wow! Guede Zaina! 

They Have come to Kill Me. Guede Zaina!

  Guede Zaina, Wow Wow! Guede Zaina! 
Guede Zaina, Wow Wow! Guede Zaina! (Repeted)

In Spanish.

Gede Araña, Ai Ai!  Gede Araña! 
Gede Araña, Ui Ui!  Gede Araña! 

El Enemigo viene a matarme, Gede Araña!

Gede Araña, Ai Ai!  Gede Araña! 
Gede Araña, Ui Ui!   Gede Araña! 

So in all actuality the song is an invocation to Guede Zaina for protection from those who wish you bodily harm and to free you from your enemies. 

 

WHO IS GUEDE ZAINA?

In the many branches of Vodou from Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, there is a division of Spirits known as Sambi Division. These spirits are viewed as ancient serpent and snake Lwa of wisdom and magic, and amongst this division one finds Dambala, Ayida Guedo, Mama Chimbi, Papa Chimbi, Ochu del Mar, Gran Simbi Glo and countless other Lwa.  But snakes and serpents were not the only creatures viewed as divine within Vudu and its many branches.  Spiders where also viewed as Spirits, and often messengers of the of death..  This belief of Serpent and Spiders as divine spirits can also be seen in Ancient Aztec and Mayan cultures. One close look at the image of Tonantzin "Our Lady of Guadelupe" and one will see that at her feet one will notice her dress turn into a Serpent's head and below her praying hands one will see a bow of six ribbon which symbolized a Spider which was a messenger of the Dead.

In many African cultures it was believed that the first two human souls, one male and the other female traveled to the earth on a golden thread which was symbolic of a Spider's web and then took human form.  They lived a long and fruitful life, but when they died, they became the first Ghede, that of Ti Ghede, and Ghede Zaina. 

Gede Zaina, Ghede Zaraignee, Guédé Zaranye or Guede Zariyen and also Gwede Aracne represents the spirit of the first human soul who became Guede, not all human souls will become Ghuede.  Unlike el Gran Baron del Cementerio who always has one foot in the world of the living and one foot in the world of the dead, meaning he can occupy two places at ones, human souls are unable to do this, so, one of the steps up the Spiritual latter and for those that follow the ancient African ways become Ghede. Of defied ancestors or the venerated dead.  Guede Zaina as a spider symbolizes that our legs our feet touches the earth and walks the paths our ancestors walked, and that our head, faces towards the heavens, towards Papa Buen Dios and the elevated Mysteries.  It symbolizes,

"Asi come en el Cielo y en la Tierra or As Above, so Below."

This in itself represents that the codependency and interchanging between the living and the dead is needed for advancement and spiritual evolution and growth.  This concept is affirmed in Puerto Rican Espiritismo.  El Muerto Pario al Santo, or Antes de Santo avia Muerto.  Which is translated to mean.  The dead gave birth and rise to the Saint, and before there was a Saint there was the dead. This Espiritismo Criollo and Mesa Blanca Espiritismo concept reaffirms the concept that we are a product of our heritage our culture and that our decisions for Spiritual development must start with our dead and our ancestors.  The spiritual web is a symbol that all the universe is tied and connected by an invisible thread, both heaven and earth are connected and obtainable by those who search for it.  "Seek and it shall be found, ask and it shall be given."

ANANSI

 

 

If Guédé Zaranye is so ancient he would be known far and wide, this is true.  In Ghana the Spider is called Anansi or Ananse, a trickster, mischievous Spider Spirit, who enjoys music, and like the Ghede, Anansi is a lover and protector of children.  Anansi is as many Ghede, a cross between the Ghede Division and the Lebane "Legba" Division.   Although Anansi was a trickster, he was a messenger, and was portrayed as very wise and intelligent.   Anansi mischievous ways where not confined to Africa, in the Caribbean he became Ghede Zaiyna and many southern African Americans can remember their grandmother's story of the trickster spider.  Anansi.  For this reason Spiders should never be harmed, they should be respected as messengers of the Ghede.  Ghede not only feed of the energy of those alive, but of those demons from hell alike.  Demons are often symbolized as Flies, hence the saying Beelzebub is the lord of the Flies, and Ghede are the spider that traps them and feast on their very energy.  So the Ghede are great protectors, highly intelligent and mischievous tricksters, and the group of Lwa that are closets to us. 

WHAT IN FACT
ARE THE GHEDE

The Ghede is a Division of Loa that is well respected not only in Haitian Vodou, but in 21 Divisions and Sance.  Many people confuse the Ghede with a Spiritual Guide, because of the very word Gede, Guide being Gide in Kreyol and Guia in Spanish.  Also many confuse the Gede with the Division of the Centinela, ones dead or other Spirits in the Comisiones.  This is not correct, and I am going to explain this in the view point of a Puerto Rican SanseSancista follower.  The Centinela are those Spirits that guard us and spiritually shield us from psychic attack and black magic, the Sances are the Ancestors and embasadors of other Divisions of Misterios or Lwa, while the Comisiones are Spirits that guide us and does not nessesarily mean that in life they practiced Vodou, Santeria or Candomble per say.  The Ghede are not our direct ancestors, or neither is it necessary that a Ghede that you honor necessarily had any blood ties with you, the only connection to us they have is Spiritual.  Know while both the Centinela, the Sance and many Spirits in the Comisiones can reincarnate or be reborn into life, the Ghede do not.  They are above the Centinelas, Los Muertos, las Comisiones, los Embajadores and los Sance but still very close to the realm of the living.  If fact they are viewed as Lwa or Mysterios, while the other groups of spirits I mentioned above are not.  Example the Sance are messengers of the Mistsrios, but they are not Loases.  The Centinela in Puerto Rican Sance are not Lwa, but Spirits that have a mission to protect in order to reincarnate or climb another step in the spiritual latter.  To make it more complicated some Centinela can become Ghede but no Ghede will ever become Centinela.

Ghede in life where not evil they are those who in life where mischievous, pranksters, highly sexual and so on.  The same can be said about the Centinela, they were not evil but were soldiers, thieves, robbers, who in the after life in order to purge and elevate must protect us from those very things they did in life.  Example of a famous Centinela would be Dismas who was crucified next to Jesus on his right side, he was a thief who was forgiven by Jesus and in death became a Centinela to cleanse his soul in order to elevate, while Gestas on his right would be more a Ghede.

The Ghede are a mystery that we as humans can not completely comprehend.  They can be both Saint and Demon, both healers and bringers of death. 

If the Ghede are to surround any human, they would surround no other more than they do human children, because children in their curious ways, in their tantrums and desires resembles that of the Ghede.  Generally speaking human children have a stronger psychic sense than their adult counterparts, and their young bodies are more accessible to death than those of an older individual.   The Ghedes are great healers as much as they enjoy the taist of death, something that is definitely not true of the Centinela and the Sanse.  But like the Comisiones and the Muertos they enjoy material offerings.  Again something that is not necessary for the Centinela.  The Ghede are also highly sexual beings, and the act of sexual human pleasures is one thing that keeps them grounded and close to the material plane.  The Ghede are Lwa and above those Spirits below them, but still they are below other Divisions such as Lebanes and Ogunes to name a few of the 21 plus Divisions but still they are as powerful and in many cases even more powerful than other Lwa because they still have the strongest connection to the material plane, where ever death is, at that very moment before life is absorbed from the body, Ghede are present.  This falls true for every living being and thing on earth, plant, animal and human. 

When Ghede are mounted in Haitian Vodou, they come dressed in their Gothic black attire, or top hat with cane, and they prefer their face painted as that of skull to demonstrate that they are both alive and dead at the same time, they like no other Lwa can ocupy two planes at one time, Life and death. 

The Ghede above all Divisions are the most feared, misunderstood and most respected of all the Divisions.  This is true for both humans and Lwa alike.  Often times the Lwa themselves fear and respect the Ghede, and ofren have little if any patience for the Ghedes anticts, and outbursts, and most often wish nothing more than to avoid their, cheerful, brash, obscene and mischievous ways while at the same time demonstrating poise, confidence and gracefulness.  The Ghede often enjoy their offerings of Rum spiced with Habanero peppers in which they vigorously rub on their eyes and genetils while wearing sunglasses at night with a missing lense, which often repulses the Metresa Division and the Nago Division, while at the same time entertains the Lebane division. 

While every human is born with a Spirit Guide, a Guardian Angel, each and every human being, may they work with them or not, or may they know it or not is born with a Legba, an Ogun and a Ghede,   This is why the Ghede are a highly respected Division within Vodou, 21 Divisiones and Sance.  No Houngan, Papa Boko, Mama Mambo or Sancista would work their tradition with out one of them in their daily work of consultation and traditional medicines.  The Ghede are honored, respected and venerated just as one would their Cuadro Espiritual and Santos.

GEDE SABALO ANOTHER VUELTA OF PAPA GED

GHUEDE LIMBO

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PRAYER TO

EL BARON OF THE CEMETERY

Baron, Selected of the Cemetery, three times I call on your holy name. With the help of the powerful strength of Sansón, you will give me your three selected spirits, so man or woman born may not do an act of treachery against me, and no injustice will condemn me. Let all evil and perverse ideas that ______ may have against me be revoked.  Make them come humiliated and repenting with all their hearts to me, by the order of the Baron of the Cemetery.  Aibobo, Amen and Ache!

 

 

 

ORACION AL

GRAN BARON DEL CEMENTERIO

GRAN BARON DEL CEMENTERIO

 

Barón del Cementerio ¡Oh! Patron elegido del cementerio, Barón del cementerio, Barón del Cementerio, Barón del cementerio.  Invoco tu Santo nombre 3 veces que ayudao por la potente fuerza de Sansón, me conceda de tus mis allegados espiritus, para que me concedan que hombre o mujer nacida, no haga acto alealevosos en mi contra o en contra de los mios, y para que en ningún caso la Justicia Terrenal me persiga y connden y otra, para que todas las ideas perversas que tengan ( nombre de la persona o decir : Sea cual fuera la persona en mi contra), se vuelva en contra de ellas, hasta que vengan a mis pies a humillarse. AMEN!!!

FEAST DAYS OF THE GUEDE AND OTHER LWA MISTERIOS COMMING NEXT.
SANCISTA BRUJO LUIS

SANTA MARTA LA DOMINADORA / SAINT MARTHA THE DOMINATOR

SANTA MARTA LA DOMINADORA

 SAINT MARTHA THE DOMINATOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

Santa Marta La Dominadora,

 haz que la culebra no decienda ahora.

 

Salve La Morocha,Salve La Morena, Dios Salve a la Morocha,  Dios Salve a la Morena, Santa Marta la Dominadora.

 

Saint Martha th Dominator,

do not allow the serpent to desend apon me now.

All Hail the brunette. All Hail, the brown skinned one.

  God Save the brunette, God Save the brown skinned one,

Santa Martha the Dominatrix.

Santa Marta la Dominadora is a complicated Loa, a Misterio that pertains to various Nations of Loa.  She is a Ghuede or Ghuedesa, as she works closely within the Cemetery, protects sacred burial grounds and ushers the Spirits of the Dead, she is a Metresa, which are female Loases that govern over human emotions such as Love, desire and passion, she is a Rada Loa as ancient as time immortal, but in the new world she is a Petro Loa, because of her fierce and fiery nature, and lastly she works with the Simbi Loa family, which are the spirits of ancient life and are symbolized as serpent Spirits that pertain to the first cells that created life on earth and govern over sorcery and magic.  Santa Marta la Dominadora or Saint Martha the Dominator as she is known in English is an unpredictable Loa that is known as a Saint, a Sorceress, a witch, a healer and even a Demon.  She is like the serpent that embodies her essence, when left alone she can be a docile and beautiful creature, but tampered or disrespected she can be dangerous and deadly.  She is as the Simbi loa, such as Gran Simbi, Simbi D'l'eau, Dambalah, Oshumare, and Ayida Wedo, because she slithers like a snake, and does not communicate through her voice, but telepathically, and the sounds she does make are the hisses of serpents and snakes.  Her eyes are said to be so piercing and so dominating, that even the most powerful Demons from hell would freeze and cower back. 

There is a Spanish proverb that says.  'Con los Santos no se Juega!". "With the Saints, one should not Play!".   If this is to be true of any Saint, then with no other would it apply to as much as it would with Santa Marta la Dominadora.  To play or "work" Santa Marta la Dominadora with no proper knowledge or complete reverence is like playing alone in a dessert with a rattle snake.   My advice, do not disturb La Culebra "the snake' because quite frankly it is not as easy as most people think.  As Santa Marta la Dominadora is a powerful Sorceress many people petition her in magic often to dominate others, love magic, or controlling others.  As she is powerful, often times she gives that which we ask, but with a high price.  She slithers, drags and unleashes her wanga and bilongo magic, but it comes as a double edged sword, at any moment it can come back and strike you dead, or take away that which you value the most.   When it comes to Santa Marta La Dominadora, the saying, "be careful what you wish for" is of great importance.

As the Petro.Loa are fierce, imagine adding Guede, and Simbi into the recipe and one will get a Loa that is as unpredictable and as complicated as they come.  She is like the Medusa of Greek mythology, beautiful to look at her reflection, but one glance into her fiery red eyes would transform even the Sun itself into a cold piece of stone.  Although she is a Petro Loa she is also considered a Rada Loa, and as the Petro Loases, when angered or disrespected the Rada can harbor and unleash a fury that rivals that of any Petro Loa.

As a Sancista it is my responsibility to inform you that many experienced individuals invoke Santa Marta La Dominadora for black magic, sorcery, enchantments, evil intentions and unleashing evil spirits or demons on rivals.  Again this reminds me of a Spanish proverb, Uno no puede tapar el cielo con solo un dedo. (One can not cover up the sky with one finger, or burying your head in the sand /ignoring the gravity of a situation,  or wilfully ignore something.). Often these very individuals who work Santa Marta la Dominadora for these wicked intentions pay the high price, often illnesses reach them, early deaths fall upon their loved ones, they become mentally unstable, and paranoid.  It is in this aspect that Santa Marta la Dominadora becomes like the ancient Ouroboros or Uroborus, the serpent or dragon that eats its own tail, until nothing, not even a carcass is left.  It is my responsibility to advice in not using any Saint, Loa, or Orisha for personal gain, dominating or sorcery, especially Santa Marta la Dominadora.  One should invoke her for protection from evil spirits and demons, or healing over black magic, protection or dominating occult enemies who only wish you harm, but again one must be very careful, and with good intentions.  One can also invoke or venerate her for peace of the home, peace with family members, and within work and healing the damages caused by black magic.  What is the point of getting even on an enemy, when all they desire is your misery.  Petition her for strength, endurance, and stability, no vengeance is sweeter than that of knowing that your enemies have no power or control over you.  Even this will enrage the strongest  sorcerer and have him/her doubt his/her own abilities, it is through this that we should petition Santa Martha la Dominadora.  In dominating our very own inner demons, greed, desires, trials and tribulations. 

Many individuals who often work or petition Santa Marta la Dominadora have no idea who she is or what she represents.  They have no clue of her history, her origin or if in fact this Saint, as is with any Saint, makes up a part of ones Cuadro Espiritual.   Many who petition her especially those outside of Dominican 21 Division, Puerto Rican Sanse or Haitian Vodou, do not know how she would act in sacred ceremonies, and still often those who do not understand her completely would confuse her for a tortured soul, earth bound spirit, intranquil spirit or demon, if in fact she even would make her pressense known.  Since in fact she only works with her Servidores, because she as all Loa have little patience for games.  Often Santa Marta la Dominadora who is a fiery spirit will often scare the living hell out of those who do not know her or have a history with her.  Many people outside of those religions and traditions that properly respect and honor her, go to the internet, as you are reading this one now, and believe themselves to be experts of the Mysteries.  This is far from the truth, because not even we who are the Servidores de los Misterios know the Mysteries completely, hence the word Mysteries. 
(Definition of Mystries : a religious truth that one can know only by revelation and cannot fully understand.  A secret religious rite believed to impart enduring bliss to the initiate: a cult devoted to such rites: something not understood or beyond understanding: a private secret : the secret or specialized practices or ritual peculiar to an occupation or a body of people: profound, inexplicable, or secretive quality or character.)

These very individuals read the prayers, light the candles, and even set up altars in ways that are not respectable, not just to Santa Marta la Dominadora, but to any Spirit, Loa, Misterio or Orisha or the religions that practice them. Many say, that the Loas or Orisha work for them, that they do not need to follow the traditions that have honored them with great respect.  I say yes, they often do listen, but darkness is a thresh hold that can so easily be crossed, and it is at this very thresh hold that the furies of these ancient spirits await.  Often time the Misteries do comply, but again often times these individuals forget to give thanks, and agknowledge properly that which the Loa have given, and it is at these times when bitterness, tribulations and greater losses arise.

 

LA SERPIENTE Y LA DOMINADORA.

THE SERPENT AND THE DOMINATRESS

THE LEGEND

 

 

 

Santa Marta la Dominadora within the Puerto Rican Sanse tradition and Dominican 21 Division is known as one of el Baron del Cementerio's Nine daughters, her real name is Filomena Lubana.  Traditional African folklore states that a young orphan boy was wondering at night through a burial ground that was directly near a swamp.  The orphan was honoring the anniverery of his mothers death, who was the eldest female buried on the grounds. (Barona / Baronesa)  Filomena Lubana was also at the burial grounds that very night honoring her father's grave who as the orphan boy's, was one of the oldest of the graves, (Baron) but obviosly holding a male carcass.  Suddenly the orphan boy was surrounded by serpents who began to encoil themselves around the young boy to squeeze the life out of him and swollow him whole. Filomena Lubana who was in  deep silent prayer and meditation herd the struggle from a distance and ran to investigate.  When she saw the attack on the small boy, and being of a fierce warrior lineage, she went and attacked the serpents that were about to eat the orphan.  Filomena Lubana then asked the orphan where his father was, and he replied he had never known him.  Filomena Lubana who was known as a fierce warrior and at the time was childless took pitty on the young boy and raised him as her own. 

 

TRADITIONAL PRAYER

TO SANTA MARTA LA DOMINADORA

Many of the tradional prayers of Santa Marta have one thing in common, they are prayers of dominating a wayward or strayed lover.  The following prayer falls also under that chategory, but it is an old Spanish prayer, rarerly if ever seen written in English.  This prayers demonstrates that which people often ask of La Dominadora.

 

 

ORACION A SANTA MARTA LA DOMINADORA

 

Spanish

 

Marta, Marta, la que los vientos levanta la que los Diablos encanta la que guiso los vinos a los finados, la que quita los dientes a los ahorcados La que desenterra os huesos a los enterrados.  La que con Doña Maria de Padilla trata y conversa.. La que los nueve hijos pario y todos nueve se le desminuyeron… Asi como esto es verdad, me bayas al corazon de Fulano de Tal y me le quites tres gotas de sangre, donde quiera que estuviere melo traygas, presto corriendo, volando donde yo (nombre) estoy; asi me lo amarres y amanses y me le pongas el amor en su corazon, para que me quiera, y en su memoria me tenga, que no me pueda olvidar, ni de noche ni de dia donde quiera que estuviere, para que ninguna mujer donde quiera que estuviere no tenga sosiego ni pueda comer ni dormir sino fuere conmigo ni pueda tener otra mujer.

 

English

 

Martha, Martha, the one who raises the winds, the one that Demons lust over.  The one that pours then serves the wine over the deceased,  The one that pulls the teaths of the hangedman.  The one that digs up the bones of those that are buried.  The one who sits with Mistress Maria de Padilla to converse.  The one that bore nine children, and nine she buried.  As this is the truth I ask you to enter into the heart of (n.n.), and from him remove three drops of blood.  Where ever he may be I ask that you bring him to me.  Bring him walking, running but is a haist, bind and tame him and place love only for me within his heart.  May he love me and in his every thoughts may I be pressent.  May he not forget me, night nor day, and where ever he may be, may he only think of me, and with no other woman whatsoever may he find peace and comfort.  May he not rest, nor work, walk, nor run with his mind on any other woman but me.  This I humbly ask you Santa Marta la Dominadora.

 

 

VUELTAS DE

 SANTA MARTA LA DOMINADORA

THE PATHS OF SAINT MARTHA THE DOMINATOR

 

Marta La Bruja

 

SILI KENWA / ESILI QUENWA

 

Before I go into the paths of Santa Marta la Dominadora which are known as vueltas, I would like to speak of Ezili Quenua, also spelled Sili Quenua or Sili Kenwa.  In the Dominican Republic it is this Misterio that is sinchrenized and associated with the Biblical Saint Martha, sister of Mary and Lazarus. To make matters more complicated as they are with those traditions that honor the Lwa, "Loa,, Loases", in Haiti the manifistation of Sili Kenwa is Erzulie Coeur Noir, or 'Black Hearted Esili".  It is Sili Kenwa who is known as the ancient witch of the swamps, known also as Marta La Bruja, or Martha the Witch.  Sili Kenwa works wangas together with Marta la Dominadora, usually in dominating the five senses, not just of humans but of other Misterios and Demons alike.  She holds a torch which demonstrates that she is a Petro Lwa, that is very hot tempered.  In her hand she holds a Bible, which is the symbol of a Witches book of sorcery and magic and undernearth she holds a lantern which is the vessel she keeps the ingredients to her magic.  At her feet behind her stands the Dragon known as Tarasque which is ofren associated with el Espiritu Dominante.  Many people outside of Caribbean traditions associate the biblical Saint Martha with Lubana Filomena.  

 

Filomena Lubana

 

 

 

The Misterio known as Lubana Filomena is the one who is always portrayed as the Snake Charmer.  She is as Dominican as Merengue and Bachata.  Legend has it that the name Lubana Filomena comes from a Folkloric Dominican Aftican Slave by the name of Juana Saltitopa who was known as La Negra Filomena.  Who was known as a Dominican Black woman who in the 1860s faught for the independence of her people.  As with many African woman Juana Saltitopa's name was never recorded in historical texts, but her legend lived and lives on amongst the Afro Dominicans who venerate her as a Highly elevated ancestral spirit and is the base behind what is much of the folklore and legend of Lubana Filomena / Santa Marta la Dominadora Dominicana.  She is also known as Marta La Colora, or Martha the Red haired one, who was a mulatta of brown skin and blood red hair.  She in this aspect is often split into two avatars, Marta la Negra or Marta la Prieta, the more docile of the two and then Marta la Colora, the one who has a temperment that rivals that of the Furies of Hell.  Marta la Colora is often associated with Santa Marta de la Bandera.

MARTA DE LA BANDERA

 

Marta Ghede

Marta Ghede or Marta Guede is the consort and companion of el Baron de Cementerio, in this aspect she is not only viewed as the Serpent that lives within the cemetery but also as the serpent, rodants and insects that consumes the flesh of the dead when it begins to dicampose.  In this aspect she symbolizes, that from death, life is sustained, and through life so shall death follow.  In this avatar she is also know as Marta Guedelia, one of el Baron del Cementerio's most beloved children.  Hear she is seen as Eve in the garden with the Serpent on the Tree of Good and Evil known as BIBI CEIBA.

MARTA GUEDE, MARTA GEDE

Marta Mambo

Marta Mambo or Mambosa is the ancient mother of humanity, especially the black race.  She is the first female womam, the dark skin beauty who knows all the knowledge of healing and herbology.  She is a Curandera, a Hierbera and a Bruja.

She is the one who instructs the first humans in the knowledge of herbology, through trial and error.  Herbs can save life as easy as it can take a life.  Mambosa is a stern, strict and often severe Loa, unapologetic and dangerous.

 

Marta Gunguna

 

MARTA GUNGUNA

Marta Gunguna is the daughter of the Loa known as Gunguna. In this aspect she is a priestess and healer, she heals all the ailmemts that aflict humanity.   In this aspect she is also known as a Medium and bestows Mediumistic abilities on humans, it is in this vuelta that she is able to communicate with the Spirits of the dead.  Marta Gunguna is synchrenized with the Biblical Witch Medium of Endor, Saul and the Witch of Endor in I Samuel chapter 28

 

Marta Pye

MARTA PYE

Marta Pye / Marta Pie pronounced Peeh Yeh is respected and venerated on the southern border that seperates Haiti from the Dominican Republic.   Although the Pie Nation of Loa are not widely known outside of Haiti with the exception of Anaisa Pye.  Marta Pye is fastly becoming a popular Loa outside of the island of Hispañola as her Haitian and Dominican followers and children migrate to Puerto Rico and the west coast of the United States.  Although in Haitian Vodou she is of the fiery Petro Division and is seen as a dark skinned Loa, in the Dominican Republic she is part of the Airy Rada Division and is seen as having white skin.  The image used to represent Marta Pye is that of Santa Marta de Betania.

 

SIGUELIA / SIGUELOA

 

 

Siguelia is a Simbi  loa or the female serpent, the female snake, the one who slithers on her stomach and hisses when her servidores are possesed.  She eats only raw eggs, and raw meat.  In some Puntos and Sociedades she speaks while in others she hisses like a snake, while still in others she communicates telepathically.  Although Siguelia or Sigueloa is viewed as female, in this aspect she has no sexual genetilia but the snake itself embodies the male penis, and the venom that comes from Siguelia's fangs represent the male sperm that not only can it bring life, but if abused can bring illness and death.  In this aspect she reigns over the ground and earth.  Siguelia lives within a snake pit which symbolizes the female vigina genetilia.  Siguelia is always held up high by Metresa Loubana, and she symbolizes one having the upper hand in any given situation.  While some say that Saint Martha the Dominator is the Serpent being held bu the snake charmer, others say that they are vueltas, the two snakes are named Siguelia and Sigueloa.

SANTA MARTA LA DOMINADORA AROUND THE WORLD

 

Mama Chimbi

 

 

Within Puerto Rican Sanse, Sance and Espiritismo Criolla tradition of the Mesa Blanca tradition, Santa Marta la Dominadora is known as Mama Chimbi, or Mami Simbi, and is the head of the Simbi division of Loa.  Her husband or companion was Papa Guedeh who is synchrenized with Saint Expedite, but they seperated because of Papa Guedes fasination for human woman and infidelities.  They are often seperated by El Baron del Cementerio who keeps order between them, because to have them placed togther would bring seperation, quarrels and even divorce within the home.  Although Mami Chimbi is a powerful sorceress, she often suffers in matters of love, and infidelity.  Her children are those woman who loose a husband to another woman, or withstand a relationship of lies and infidelities.  In the Mami Chimbi avatar she speaks as does any other Misterio, while most Martas usually speak telepathically or hiss.

 

 

Madama Dambala

 

LA BARONESA //// MADAME DAMBALA

Traditionally within Sanse, Santeria and Espiritismo, las Madamas make up a Commision of Spirits of African priestesses that pracriced Espiritismo and Santeria.  While Madama or Madame Dambala pertains to the Madamas, she is more the Spirit of the old Voodoo Queens of New Orleans long passed, who are slowly climbing the spiritual latter and becoming Loases such as Marie Lavoe.  Madame Dambala is a Loa of the New Orleans, Louisianna Voodoo Tradition.  She is dipicted as a Madama, and works her magic with rattle snakes, reptiles and swamp serpents.  She is a Pitonisa in that she uses the cards to fortel future events and is an expert in venom and poisonous herbs.   Her head dress is often larger than that of the Madamas of the Caribbean and it represents a coiled snake encircling her head, which is a symbol of her wisdom of Root magic, potions, divination and communicating with the dead.  While Madame Dambala is seen as a Voodoo Queen, their is an aspect that resembles the Haitian Loa Ayizan, who is known as the Swamp Witch.  Madame Dambala is said to be the wife of the New Orleans Voodoo Loa known as Blanc Dani.

AYIDA OWEDO

 

 

AYIDA WEDO

 

In Haiti the image of Santa Marta la Dominadora is used to represent the ancient Rada Lwa known as Ayida Owedo, or Ayida Wedo known in Puerto Rican Sanse as Yida Guedo, or Eida Gwedo.  Ayida Wedo is the first wife of Dambalah, and are viewed as the daulty of night and day, good and bad, ying and yang. 

 

MAMI WATA

 

MAMI WATA

 

Mami Wata, Madre de Aguas, an ancient deity Loa from Central Africa is often dipicted with the statue of Santa Marta La Dominadora.  Mami Wata in herself is as complex as time itself, and she is known to have more Caminos and Vueltas than any other Loa.  To name a few.  Mawu, Yemaya, la Sirène, Mamba Muntu, Maman Dlo, Mamy Wata, Mamadjo, Watramama, Owumiri, and Watermama just to name a few.  Mami Wata is the serpent goddess of the sea, who in the ends of time will bring all humanity back to its base of origin, Africa.  She is the Serpent Goddess who on her back brought the souls of the Slaves back to Africa where each would reign in Spirit as Kings and Queens.

 

 

 

MARIA LIONZA

 

 

 

The Vodou / Espiritismo / Santeria tradition of Maria Lionza from Venezuela is a mixture of African and Indegenous traditions with European Spiritism and folk magic and herbal lore.  It is similar to Brazilian Umbanda and Puerto Rican Sanse, The central figure of this tradition is known as the Goddess known as Maria Lionza, or Maria de la Onza. 

Maria Lionza or Yara as she was known by the natives of Venezuela was an indigenous Cacica, daughter of the Cacique Yaracuy, and granddaughter of the Cacique Chilua and the great-granddaughter of Cacique Yare.

As legend has it, a great Shaman of the village predicted that a girl was to be born with strange Green eyes as green as the grass, that could turn as blue as the skies.  This of course was an omen and unheard of within the indigenous people of Venezuela.  The Shaman went on to say that the unborn child was to be sacrificed and offered to the Master of the Waters, the Great Anaconda, because if not it would lead to the ruin and extinction of the Nivar tribe.
When Yara was born, she was born with the colored eyes that were only seen from the White man, but Cacique Yaracuy instantly feel in love with his daughter and could not find it in his heart to sacrifice his daughter.  So he decided to hide her within a cave that was guarded by 22 warriors to make sure she would not escape, in the hopes that the prophesize would not come to pass.

One night when Yara was a young woman the magical rays of the blue moon shown upon the warriors and  all 22 fell into a deep sleep.  Yara escaped the cave and for the first time since her birth she wondered outside of the cave.  Yara was captivated by the beauty of everything around her, the treas, the stars, the moon and the sky.  Soon she came upon a lagoon and there under the rays of the moon Yara saw her reflection for the first time.  Captivated by her own image, she was unable to move, but her presence awakened the Master of the Waters, the Great Anaconda, who emerged from the depths of the lagoon.  The great anaconda fell in love with the girl, and drew closer to take her away.  But Yara resisted the Master of the Water's  advances.  This enfuriated the anaconda and he swallowed the girl whole, taking with her the waters of the lagoon.

But the great anaconda then began to swell and combusted, and the waters  came out flooding the village below, and drowning all the inhabitants of the tribe within their sleep.
With the regergitation of the lagoon came out Yara who reamerged as the goddess Maria Lionza, thus becoming the new owner of the lagoon, the river and the waters, and the protecter of the fish the plants the animals and all the hidden tribes that now made their homes around the lagoon.

 

Hindu Goddess

Mexican Virgin

Manasa the Hindu Snake Serpent Goddess, and Naga Kanya the Hindu Goddess of Snakes Naga Kanya are but some of ancient Goddesses that are symbolized as Serpent Goddesses.    Lastly with close inspection of the Virgen of Guadelupe known as the Goddess Tonantzin  one will see that the ancient Mexican Goddess appears to be standing on the head of a serpent which makes up the lower half of her dress.   To speak of Serpent Goddesses around the world, would take more than your patience will allow.  So to end this I will talk about the basic fundamentals of Santa Marta La Dominadora.

 

 

SERVICIOS

Santa Marta la Dominadora and all her vueltas feast day fall on the 29th of July.  Her day is either Monday but preferably Tuesdays.  Her Paños or Fulas are purple, red, black, green, and brown.  Often the shades of her paños are of a dark color.   In her Servicios Santa Marta La Dominadora will take candles but enjoys oil lamps with a mixture of snake oil carabanchel oil, and iguereta oil.  In Sanse and 21 Division her offerings are always placed on the ground, and she enjoys Raw eggs on freshly ground expresso coffee grounds in which a raw egg is carefully placed on top, covered in honey or molasses and given Menthol cigarettes, cigars, dark expresso coffee, grape soda and Malta Goya or Malta India.  Her associated numbers are 5 and 9.  Santa Marta is associated with the element of earth and fire and these elements should be preasent with her servicios.  She only eats raw eggs and is offended if the egg is cooked and will only drink expresso coffee, dont bother with the decafinated, again this is an offense to her and she will not consume of its energy.  Her offerings are always acompanoed with a tin or metal cup of water, a tin or metal cup of blood red dried wine and a tin cup of brown spiced rum.   The plates for her offerings can be of terra cotta, metal, woven fibers or gourds.  She also enjoys rubber, plastic or wooden snakes around her offerings.

 

Her servicios are always placed on a metal mug, and plate and never on crystal or clear glass. She can be offered cake, corn cakes, various dark colored flowers, swords and knives, silver colored jewelry, beads, green altar cloths, kola nuts, squash, okra,  money, coins and metal trinkets..

 

 

CRISTIAN BIBLICAL AND MYTHICAL FOLKTALE OF SAINT MARTHA

 

 

 

Martha of Bethany, also known as Saint. Martha, is a biblical figure in the Gospels of Luke and John. She is described to live in the village of Bethany with her siblings Lazarus and Mary, near Jerusalem and was a witness to Jesus' resurrection of Lazarus. In the Gospel of John, Martha and Mary are associated with two incidents: the raising from the dead of her brother Lazarus (John 11) and the anointing of Jesus at the home of Simon the Leper (John 12:3). In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus visits the home of two sisters named Mary and Martha. In Catholicism, Martha's sister Mary, is Mary Magdalene

An old mythical legend tells the tale that Saint Martha sister of Lazarus and Mary left the holy land because of the persicution of the Cristian people in the Holy Land and migrated to the land of Gaul, which is modern day France.  There she encountered an evil sea serpent that was part demon and part dragon which terrorized Gaul.

The serpent dragon made its way from the ocean to the river where a village resided and used the water as often we do as a source of survival and the transportation of goods.   The dragon was discribed as half beast and half fish which had teath as sharp and as long as swords, a horn on eather side of its head, which resembled that of a furotious lion.  The dragon had the body of a crocodile, the tail of a serpent, claws as sharp as daggers, and on eather side, demonic wings, which he used to fly with.  The Dragon was named Tarasque

Tarasque was such a fierce dragon that no warrior nor knight could subdue the beast, for it is said that he was a strong as 12 Lions and 12 Bears.  Although Tarasque lived within the murcy waters of the lagoon, it is said that any ship that disturbed his slumber or any virgin maiden collecting waters for her house chores would pay the ultimate price.  From the vowells of Tarasque's stomach came flames that smelled of Brimstone and sulfar, and could scortch and melt the strongest of swords, spears and shields. 

The pagan people of the villages had heard that a great female Cristian warrior resided amongst them, and they went to her and pleaded her to dominate and subdue the dragon that was causing havoc amongst the villages.  Saint Martha agreed and went to the shore of the lagoon, where she found Tarasque feasting on human flesh.  When Tarasque noticed her he instinctivly inhaled so that he could exhale his flames, but at that very moment Saint Martha sprayed Holy Water into his mouth which extinquished the flames within his stomach.  Then she took out a Cross and showed it to the beast which rendired him motionless.  At this Saint Martha with her own girdle and ribbons of red and white lace, binded his feet, arms, mouth and tail, and at this she dominated the Dragon, and killed it.  And this is how Saint Martha dominated, and slayed the Dragon, saving a village and giving them back peace.

 

Novena to St. Martha

 (pray for 9 consecutive Tuesdays)

 

 

 

Saint Martha, I resort to thy aid and protection. As proof of my affection and faith, I offer thee this light, which I shall burn every Tuesday. Comfort me in all my difficulties and through the great favors thou didst enjoy when the Saviour was lodged in thy house, intercede for my family, that we be provided for in our necessities. I ask of thee, St. Martha, to overcome all difficulties as thou didst overcome the dragon which thou hadst at thy feet. Amen.

 

 

 

 

PRAYER TO

SAINT MARTHA THE DOMINATOR

Holy Virgin Saint Martha , Who entered the mountain and tied Up the beast with your ribbons, I beg you to tie up and dominate [insert name of target].

Saint Martha, Let him/her not sit in a chair, Nor lie in a bed until he/she is at my feet. Holy Martha , hear me, Help Me for the love of God.

Holy Virgin Martha , For the oil which you will consume today, For the oil which nourishes this lamp, For the wick which burns away all impurities, I dedicate this Lamp to you, So that you may relieve me Of all my Miseries And Help Me to Overcome all Difficulties. As You dominated the beast at your feet, Give me Health and Work So that I may provide for my needs.

My Mother, Grant me that [insert target's name] May not live in Peace, Until he/she comes to stand at my feet. In this way my Mother, For the Love of God Grant my Petition and Eliminate My Misery. Amen.

 

OTHER LOA AND SPIRITS OF THE CEMETERY

To name all the Misterios, Loas and Orisha that govern over or work within the cemetery, would take a book.  But I will write about them in the fututre.  Here are some.  Mama Buyita, La Barona, La Baronesa, Guedelia, Oya, Yewa, Guedesa, Centella, LLekua, just to name a few of the many Spirits, Loa and Orisha that work the Cemetery.

 

SANTA MARTA LA DOMINADORA


OTHER LINKS BY SANCISTA BRUJO LUIS

 

SIMBI

 

PAPA LEGBA

 

BELIE BELCAN

 

CACHITA TUMBO

 

ERZULIE FREDA

 

THE COMISION OF SPIRITS

 

THE MISTERIOS

 

THE NACIONES

 

THE CENTINELA

ESPIRITISMO

 

SPIRITUAL ALTAR

 

SPIRITUAL MASS LA VELADA

 

ESPIRITISMO CRIOLLA

 

LEVELS OF SPIRITS

SANTA MARTA LA DOMINADORA

 

SAINT MARTHA THE DOMINATOR

MAMA CHIMBI SANTA MARTA LA DOMINADORA

FILOMENA LUBANA

SANCISTA BRUJO LUIS

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