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When Africans were kidnapped, trafficked en masse and brutally dragged in chains to work camps in the “New World,” called plantations, we hid our deities and rituals in stories of saints, angels, and legendary characters. Our deities included a powerful cadre of orishas, abosom, lwas, álúsí, spirits, and god/desses. From South Africa to Sudan, Brazil to Cuba to even Indigenous Australia, we chant their names: Yemaya, Mami Wata, Atete, Iset, and Ala.
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― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
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Some of us have been hiding, shrinking, betraying ourselves, faking the funk, and playing small for so long that we believe that we are small. That shrunken self is not you. That shrunken self is a persona you created to survive.
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― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
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