African man - Ayele-Pntg (a Sokoya drawing)
Obaluaye, known in Africa as "King owner of the Land", or Omolu, "Son of the Gentleman". The names generally given are these. It is the energy that conducts the plagues as the smallpox, measles, catapora and other illnesses of skin. It represents the point of contact of the man (physicist) with the world (the land), the interface to pele/ar, the appearance of the strange things and the relation with them. It also conducts the transmissible illnesses in general. Beyond the power curing such illnesses, dangerous to even be sharp, he is orixá that cure the ósseas diseases. Better defining, he is who punishes the evildoers and insolentes. In the positive aspect, it it still conducts the cure, through the death and of the renaissance.
It says the myth that Obaluaye is son of Nanã (the primordial mud of that human beings had been made the heads - oris-) and Oxalá, having born full of wounds and marks for the body as signal of the error committed for both. When seeing ugly the son and malformado, covered of smallpox, Nanã abandoned it to the side of the sea, so that the full tide took it.
Kemetic Woman (a Sokoya drawing)
Iemanjá found it almost dead and very bitten for the fish, and having been with much penalty, it took care of of it until he was cured. However Obaluaye was marked for scars in all the body, and was so ugly that they compelled it to cover itself entirely with straws. Not way of Obaluaye senão its legs and arms, where it are not so reached. It learned with Iemanjá and Oxalá as to cure these serious illnesses. Thus Obaluaye, always covered by straws, hiding itself of the people, taciturno and compenetrado grew, always serious and until mal-humorado.
One day, walking for the world, felt hunger and asked for to the people of a village for where it passed that they gave to food and water to it. But the people, scared with the man covered with straws since the head, had banished it from the village and they had not given nothing to it.
Obaluaye, sad and overwhelming left the town and continued for the outskirts, observing the people. During this time the days esquentaram, the sun burnt the plantations, the women had been barren, the full children of smallpox and the sick men. Believing that the stranger covered of straw curses the place, they had begged its pardon and they had asked for that it again stepped on in the dry land.
Still with hunger and headquarters, Obaluaye took care of to the order of the inhabitants of the place and again it entered in the village, making with that all the evil finished. Then men had fed it and they had given to it to drink, relieving many homages to it. It was when Obaluaye said that never they denied food and water to who wants was, had the appearance that had. E followed its way.
Arriving at its land, it found an immense party of the Orixás. As it was not felt entering in a party covered of straws well, it was observing for the openings of the house. It was when Iansã, the Goddess of the Winds, saw it in this situation and with its winds it raised straws, leaving that all saw a beautiful man, already without no mark, fort, full of energy and virility and adentro danced with it for the night. From this day, Obaluaye and Iansã-Balé they had been joined against the power of the death, the illnesses and the espíritos of deceased, preventing that disasters happen to the men. This myth in the sample that the evil exists, that it can be cured, but mainly that she is necessary to have conscience of the moment where it finished, knowing to recommence a violent suffering after.
Obaluaye also conducts the force of the land (inherited of its filiation the Nanã), the humidity of it (for its adoption for Iemanjá) and the illnesses of the plantations.
Color: The people who are consecrated to it use two types of necklaces: a fact of small threaded records, call lagdbá, and another one of white and black accounts of glass, and in the color terracota gust of black person and white.
Symbol: it will xaxará (fact of stems of leves of dendezeiro, straws of the coast and Búzios).
Day of the week: monday
Food: popcorn and efó
Greeting: Atotô!
Personality of the Children of Obaluaye
Positive aspects:
Serious, honest, economic, responsible, custodian, solidary, true, friend, courageous.
Negative aspects:
Ranzinza, taciturno, pessimist, unsafe, vingativo.
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