Revival | Sara Evans

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The light is dimming, the time is moving away, how long it will take? till darkness guides my way.

It still playing with me, playing obscure games that he has invented for me. Darkness still on me, hiding to me the path that I must walk; hiding from me the most of my thoughts and memories. Hiding me from the light. It wants to control everything that I can see, everything that I can hear. Where I can find more hope? 

The night is coming and the moon is hiding in the clouds, her brightness is getting misty, the air is getting cold; I can see the dusk of the sky coming, are the Heaven and Earth getting separated? or Darkness is making me another place to cry?

I have no eyes, and I can’t see her come; I have no ears and I can’t hear her voice, I have no heart but I need to love; I have no words and I want to pray; For her and for my own destiny. The fragments of my broken mind don't are kingdom from my queen.
“Character is all that is required. There is no destiny that needs to be called unfortunate (bad) in Ifè City. For character is all that is required.” (Odu Ifa 31:3)
“Character, iwa, is what we are looking for, character… All the good things we have, if we do not have character, these good things belong to someone else. And so, it’s character, iwa, we are looking for, character.” (Odu Ifa 39:1)
“Patience is the father of character… a person who is patient will become a master of all things.” (Odu Ifa 31:1)
I can’t blame my mother (God), for the arrogance and foolishness that my head carries, I can’t blame the messages that I never understood and didn’t hear it.  How the spirit and knowledge of God can reach a silly and impure mind? “Chèvre sans cornes” how I like to call those impure minds. There is no reason that they step on the sacred skin of God Women (Earth).

There is no reason to keep chasing for love, if my negligence is always present, if my mind is keep in torment of all kind of diseases… Love, please; Let me out of here. Lead me like every man and women that wish to reach the light; There is still a little of love in my heart to don’t fall in insanity… There is a place that I can call “home”: where I can rest, where every single corner is lighted with the magic of the unicorn, the purest form of the dreams and hopes;

For some kind of reason, I have started to get curiosity on African Religions; I found it interesting, and fascinating. I’m not sure why, sometimes instinct its stronger that the reasons… curiosity it’s the most natural instinct of the man, the hunger for knowledge the most natural of their needs. I’m not sure what I’m looking for… But I've found something interesting
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Looking on Nigeria and the Dahomey (now Benin) religions; I have found some deities, of peace and love; religions that worship the nature and the animals as the spirits of the nature, creation of God itself. And also worships the strength of their own community.

The Dahomeys, some place in west Africa, where the Voudoum started as their pure form; Voudoum venerates Mawu-Lisa, Mawu (Oluwa in Yoruba) is the principle of the female that represent the moon; she gives the spirit of motherhood, joy, peace and sorrow to those who summons her, she got the proprieties of the woman; Lisa represents the Sun (The omnipotent father); war, strength, hard work and proprieties of the man; The interesting part; they two are one itself;  They borned from Nana-Buluku (I call her, the first light); and both, mother and father: Mawu and Lisa, represent the creation of everything and the most of the Lwa (spirits of Voudoum); in brief… means that their love is the creator of everything and every vodoist, creator of the heaven and earth.

Dambala Wedo and Ayida Wedo, Vévé
One of their sons, Dambala Wedo; the serpent that connect the heavens and the earth (in Voudoum: “the lost mystic word”). Represent life itself, water and wisdom. Together with her Wife, Ayida Wedo (happiness and rainbows). Provides fertility on the earth and woman, gentleness and peace. Guardian of the morality and the principles. The both deities are represented with white, Ayida Wedo with white and blue, their spiritual nectar are still on the human’s body, on the “white” of the women (her milk) and the white of the man (you know, the seed). In brief… their love means: society and prosperity (order);

One “enemy” of Ayida Wedo; is called Ezili Freda; the lover of Dambala Wedo; that deity, is well known by their natural lack of satisfaction of love; she desires to be loved by every man on her reach (add me to de list, just kidding), and on the consulted bibliography said that she often doesn’t talk to women and only talk in French “agréable et doux”; In brief… she is the lover of the love, spreading water where she walks.

Ezili Freda, vévé; Really beautiful
A dagger on a heart, that means:
"Loyality in love"

Also, the most of the African traditions venerate women, by their function on the nature (Brings new life), as an important part of the society as an educator and keeper of the new ones… hmmm… As a direct link between God and Man; Everybody (except Catholics) knows that Eva was created by God for that… for that reason, the blood (life) of the women is a precious resource; but sometimes women are incapable to hear the voice of her own essence (God), and they become the ruin of man and their own decendents. It’s supposed that is easy to know who is hearing the words of the wisdom; if she is like Mawu, or Oluwa in Yoruba; gentle, kindness and peaceful… she is probably hearing the voice of the Almighty; but if she is rancorous, and talks the language of the liars…Well... how somebody like this will lead Man to peace? As a bad mathematics joke: love is a Vector, Women are direction (lead) and Man are Magnitude (strength).

I hope that I can reach the light that I am looking for, I hope; to be ready to see it with my bare eyes. I hope someday to get enough character to make this light mine.

-- Ruben Rivera

P.S. Ifé, a sacred city in Nigeria; Founded by Yoruba people, it supposed to mean: unconditional love; Odu Ifa, is their sacred Text. vévé is a set of symbols that helps to summon the spirit.

Original Photo-Art by Panos Kefalas (panosozi), Red and Yellow from deviantart.com

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