Now calling on the Seekers, those who have peeked behind the veil, the ones who want to remember who they truly are.
For the ones whose nervous systems have carried too much for too long…
I've created a free 1:1 space for you to return to your breath, body & signal.
Ohen patience Obazelu, a priestess of Olokun and Mammy-wata at her shrine to these divinities in Benin city,ca.1991.
She's been a priestess since her secondary school days, and she holds a harmonica, which she uses in her olókun and Mammy-wata practice. On the floor are chalk Iconographs of different meanings or symbolism: the two-headed snake and the fish, which are associated with her worship of the water.
At first she suffered deep paralysis that twisted her head to the back and those who wish to speak to her, had to do it from the back, this was until she was initiated into esago worship, and before the paralysis she couldn't even walk which necessitated her first ever olokun initiation. At this time, rumors of Mammy-wata sighting in the area by school children were prevalent in the area.
Two years later, she fell into a coma where she couldn't hear human voices but could hear that of birds and the wind, and anyone who touched her received "Oriri" a shock like those of an electric fish, until she was initiated into the Mammy wata worship, note she had earlier done initiation into Obanje worship. Her life, according to her interview with norma rosen, has since smoothed out ever since she became a Mammy-wata devotee.
Her choice of Mammy-wata imagery is very creative and foreign influenced, as she regards the Indian snake charmer chromolith as very important as it delineate the Mammy-wata altar rom the Olokun's altar, the former she believes is a woman with fish-tail as leg.
She was 22 when the interview and photos of her were taken by Norman Rosen in 1990/91.
@designedlightx This is interesting!
Feel like me be doing something wrong with my external markets & indirect light.
Got any tips to get my body in shape?