Cooking For The Spirits I – A Small Banquet For Shango

Today and tomorrow we are working on making three big offerings for Shango, Oya and Eleggua for one of our most loved patrons. That means cooking, cooking and more cooking, so much that we couldn’t fit it in just one day. While other paths require very little amounts of food (or none) when making offerings, [...]

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Back At The Noble Pagan Forums!

I have been a member of The Noble Pagan Forums since 2009, where I was invited to participate as an educator on African-origined religions. Due to the increasing work that House Of Eleggua meant I had to stop posting for a while, but now I finally have the time to resume my participation. The first [...]

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Spring Cleaning For The Altar

The altar got a full makeover, and we finally gave Eleggua his tureen. The tureen is not an ornament, but a container of the Orisha’s power, that amplifies his energy. I would like to add that the gorgeous net-like curtain (which is actually a headdress) over the tureen was a gift from one of our [...]

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Omiero (With Saint Michael’s Help)

Omiero is a cleansing and blessing liquid made with fresh herbs and flowers, water and other elements, and was one of the first Santeria works I learnt how to make. There are many different recipes for different needs, but the basic idea is always the same: herbs and flowers must always be fresh (so recipes [...]

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Pics Of The Week

Fridays are usually our free day, so I am only posting today some of the beautiful spellwork we’ve had this week, and a little this and that, before I’m off to the roof garden to get some sun and crochet the day away! Beautiful and powerful angelic work for a patron – yes, that is [...]

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Update, And Offering Pics

I would like to let all our readers know that we have been having a lot of problems with the site that hosts our downloadable products, so we have deactivated the digital items from the shop temporarily until we find a new hosting service. We will let you know as soon as it is fixed, [...]

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The Day Of The Dead – Day 26

A powerful day – we finally built the Day Of The Dead Altar. Pics galore! On the left, a jar filled with oak roots holding charms, bags of bones, a corn husk doll and a chicken foot charm. Below it, all the different types of graveyard dirt we have (from USA, Canada, Estonia and our [...]

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New Listings Today!

Bat Nut Charms Bat nuts are the seed of the Asian Trapa Bicornis plant, a traditional lucky food in China, usually cooked for spirit offerings. In Western Witchcraft it has been used as a powerful talisman, due to its resemblance to a two-faced devil’s head. In Santeria, Voodoo and Hoodoo, it is used to ward [...]

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A Basic Orisha List – III – Yoruban Orishas

(To read the first part of this post, please click HERE; to read the second part, please click HERE) Yemanya/Jemonja – the mother Orisha, queen of the sea and owner of all the riches of the world. Kind and generous, but very demanding to her sons and daughters, of whom she requires the utmost devotion. [...]

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A Basic Orisha List – II – Yoruban Orishas

(To read the first post of this series, please click HERE) Oggum – the Orisha of forge and iron, Oggum works for the benefit of all humanity. Protector and patron of soldiers and all caretakers, he is very passionate and protective of those who worship him. Oggum teaches self-sacrifice and restraint to those who need [...]

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