Babalawo

But yeah, there were... ancient African rituals that were performed on me in case I was cursed.

This Babalao became mounted by an African spirit on multiple occasions around me, and things came out of his mouth that he could never have known.

So there is something to it.

There was something...

It's artwork.

When you even see the Babalawo, you call Gifts to come and design it for them well.

Play with colors, orange and- Yellow, red ... yeah.

Beige and brown.

Use more earthy colors.

All your rites red, all red everywhere, red.

You go and meet the Babalawo, "Don't you have taste in color?" Like red, red, red, red, red, red.

If you want artwork, I can give to you, you know, more...

have that, it's like there's this cloud that people are trying to, it's like, oh, it's just Eleko and something.

Because Eleko and I like Babalao music.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What I'm saying, the sound.

Then they carried the palm nuts to Ifa.

Elegbara kept his promise and taught Ifa the art of divination, and Ifa in his turn taught Orungun, who thus became the first Babalawo.

It is in memory of these events that when a man wishes to consult Ifa, he takes his wife with him, if he be married, and his mother, if he be single, who carries the sixteen palm nuts tied up in a bundle on her back like a child, and that the Babalawo, before consulting the god, always says, Orungun Ajuba O, Orisha Bi Ajuba O. Orungun, I hold you in grateful remembrance.

Orisha Bi, I hold you in grateful remembrance.

For the consultation of Ifa, a whitened board is employed exactly similar to those used by children in Muslim schools in lieu of slates, about two feet long, eight or nine inches broad, on which are marked sixteen figures.

The sixteen palm nuts are held loosely in the right hand and thrown through the half-closed fingers into the left hand.

If one nut remain in the right hand, two marks are made, thus, line, line, and if two remain, one mark, line.

In this way are formed the sixteen, quote, mothers, end quote, one of which is declared by the Babalawo to represent the inquirer, and from the order in which the others are produced, he deduces certain results.

Mm-hmm.

So there was a Babalao, my, my old Babalao, Baba Freddy Pena, uh, Kere kere Ogundabara Ibaye.

Name sound tough.

And no, he...

Mm.

So he had also a heavy crown to carry.

You know, before he made Babalao, he was a priest of Oshun.

But he had mentioned that in his Ifa it spoke about he can't have strawberries And so he didn't listen, and he put the whole thing of not having strawberries to the test.

Today you are in trouble.

You are going to Babalao.

You are running to everybody else but God.

You have told your challenge to 5 people, 20 people, but you have not sat down with God to make a statement.

Al arroyo, no, al arroyo y miel [agua bendita].

Babalao, santero [agua bendita].

Ponle adimú a Yemayá [agua bendita].

Goza, Chavia [agua bendita].

Hey.

Some people say I go baba lawo.

Chege.

Ambassador go dey chege.

Confidence what? When you walk in a good conscience, you are confident God is always on your side.

Can you go to a weed doctor and be confident? Huh? You go to Baba Lawo in the morning.

And then in the evening, you come to church.

You say, now pray against witches and wizards.