To petition the Orishas

To petition the Orishas:

Ingredients:

Almond oil
Corojo oil
Iron filings
Coconut Wine
Orange water
Peppercorns
Cocoa butter
Mercury
Red ocher

Fill a tin can with the oils and seven drops of wine and orange water, seven peppercorns, seven small bits of coconut and a pinch of each of the solid ingredients. Place a wick in the mixture.

Go to the seashore and petition Yemaya and all the Orishas to come to your aid as you light the lamp. Next to the lamp, place a glass of water with cocoa butter and mercury.

To petition Yemaya:

Method One

Ingredients:

Water
Indigo dye
A candle

Fill a small tub with water. Tint the water with indigo until it is a deep blue. Place a candle on a small dish and float the dish on the water. Petition Yemaya as you light the candle. The candle should burn for seven or fourteen days.

Method Two

Ingredients:

Indigo dye
Corojo butter
Corn meal
Fish
Salt
A cotton wick.
A blue cloth

Fill a deep plate with liquefied corojo butter. Stir in the indigo until it is a deep blue. Add small amounts of corn meal, fish and salt. Insert the wick and allow the corojo butter to solidify.

Petition Yemaya as you light the wick. Allow the lamp to burn until all the corojo butter is consumed. Wrap the remains in a blue cloth and dispose of the bundle at sea.


To petition Oshun:

Ingredients:

A large gourd
Five eggs
Honey
Oil
A sugar plum
Cotton wicks

Make small holes in the five eggs and place them inside the gourd. Fill the eggs with oil, a drop of honey and a piece of sugar plum. Place a wick in each egg.

Light the wicks as you petition Oshun. The egg lamps should burn for five days. At the end of the fifth day, take the gourd and the burnt out eggs and dispose of them in a river.


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