Shango

All right? And then you have traditional worshipers.

Shongo can say, I'm God.

I'm not dressed, not dressed, not dressed.

But there must be criteria because you can be powerful and not be God.

the thing.

They might be serving Obatala or Shongo.

And those also used to do human sacrifice.

I can't choose those ones.

This is where it hides behind Christianity.

Spirits like Shango, ruler of thunder and fire, paired under colonial pressure with Saint Barbara.

Yemaya, mother of the ocean, hidden behind Our Lady of Regla.

And Oshun, spirit of rivers, love, and beauty, layered over Our Lady of Charity, Cuba's patron saint.

This time, five years ago, the original version of this song that you are hearing behind me surpassed over two billion streams, 15 nominations, and one win for the MTV Video Music Awards in the pop category.

Produced by Harv and Shango, featuring The Biebs and fellow Torontonian Daniel Caesar alongside Givion, we went with a meditative version of that track.

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That was Peaches kicking off our show as we gently welcome you to the very first episode of September.

Listen, there is no God you will choose to serve where you can escape this principle of generosity.

If you are angry with tithing and offering, try Shongo.

You cannot do any spiritual business with any deity without generosity.

Are you getting what I'm saying? Now, this is important.

You know, somehow, if not for those of us who have known you What does that even mean? You say you act like you know history.

The legendary Shongo made this hair.

Why didn't you invite Shongo

here? Is it wrong for me to want to act like my forefathers? Who are your forefathers? From where? Which part of Nigeria? Did Shongo make...

I didn't see Shongo.

You didn't see Shongo? No, no, no.

It was just an expression.

Did you see God? Are you not believing

One story says that when the Orishas were gathered and Olodumare was distributing powers to them, Ogun wanted the-- Ogun, one Orisha, wanted the power of metal, and so he became a powerful alchemist, and he became the god of victory and iron.

Shango wanted the power of thunder and lightning, and he got that.

Esu just wanted to travel, and his prayer was, "Just let me travel.

I want to see the ends of the world." And so the stories we tell about Esu, who seems to be central to the transatlantic slave trade, to that dispersal, to that diasporic quality that is at the heart of this dispersal, is one of-- is the idea that we cannot stay still for too long.

Two gate ships crashed into each other, locked together like mating insects.

The burning Nytel out of Oya Gate and Mbusin from Shango Gate.

Giro could immediately tell that they had drifted into each other, rather than collided while engines were firing.

The ships were intact, apart from the point of contact and the flying debris of solar panels and shielding.

Although, we're all from Earth if you...

Thank you for meeting me, said Jiro.

The second was a Shango representative.

Jiro could not tell if he was human, but it didn't matter on Shango.

when spiritual energy kind of takes over and it happens and feels different for everybody.

I didn't even know that that's what was happening, but now in retrospect, Oh, I got mounted and more than one occasion, one with Shango and then, um, Once when we were in this museum, when there were actual artifacts that some of the enslaved Africans were wearing.

So all of this happened in 2017.

And my aortic dissection happened at the end of that year with all of these things happening.