Santa Muerte: A Conversation with Tio Brujo

So can you take the listeners through the infernal divine? Because I haven't really touched on it, but how would you describe it?

So I would say the infernal divine are beings that what we would think live within the infernal, you know, some people would call that hell, the below, you know, just, just what we view as wherever we, demons, or I just say the infernal divine, reside.

People call them that because they are kind of like, you think of like the heavenly divine, right? So like angels, saints, it's just the opposite coin of that, you know? And I don't like to call them demons because I feel like demons has a very, there's a lot of like stigma and bad things tied to that word.

Obviously, a lot of it does come from Abrahamic religions.

But they're more or less just like beings and deities that reside in the infernal, you know, and they all have a purpose, just like every other saint, just like every other god, you know.

I don't know all of them, obviously.

But, you know, there's like the prince of hell, like the president of demons, you know, they all have a different job, they all do different things.

It's just to keep respect, I just call them the infernal divines.

I love that.

So what do you feel about some practitioners who kind of work with the infernal divine and they put it up and then they, I don't show my bed.

I don't show my altars.

I don't show me doing any workings.

So how do you feel about, because I was looking last night when I was doing my research, I saw that there was a lot of people openly, you know, showing their altar with Santa Muerte and like everything like that.

How do you, what's your take on that?

So with Santa Muerte, I would say that is really a relationship that you would have to have between you and mommy.

You know, we call her mommy.

So forewarning, I'm probably going to refer to her a lot as mommy.

You know, there's been practitioners like, so like my elder, for example, Bruja B.

She is someone who doesn't really show her altars anymore.

She doesn't really show her working altars.

For years she did, you know, but mommy put on her heart, like, I don't want you to do this anymore.

You know, where me, I was kind of like the opposite.

Like for years, I very much, whenever I recorded videos, I never, ever, ever showed any of my working alters, you know.

Even now, I won't show my working alter, but something, what if they has put on my heart that I can show her alter that I have in the house.

So I think it really is just a one on one relationship.

So can you take the listeners through the infernal divine? Because I haven't really touched on it, but how would you describe it?

So I would say the infernal divine are beings that what we would think live within the infernal, you know, some people would call that hell, the below, you know, just, just what we view as wherever we, demons, or I just say the infernal divine, reside.

People call them that because they are kind of like, you think of like the heavenly divine, right? So like angels, saints, it's just the opposite coin of that, you know? And I don't like to call them demons because I feel like demons has a very, there's a lot of like stigma and bad things tied to that word.

Obviously, a lot of it does come from Abrahamic religions.

But they're more or less just like beings and deities that reside in the infernal, you know, and they all have a purpose, just like every other saint, just like every other god, you know.

I don't know all of them, obviously.

But, you know, there's like the prince of hell, like the president of demons, you know, they all have a different job, they all do different things.

It's just to keep respect, I just call them the infernal divines.

I love that.

So what do you feel about some practitioners who kind of work with the infernal divine and they put it up and then they, I don't show my bed.

I don't show my altars.

I don't show me doing any workings.

So how do you feel about, because I was looking last night when I was doing my research, I saw that there was a lot of people openly, you know, showing their altar with Santa Muerte and like everything like that.

How do you, what's your take on that?

So with Santa Muerte, I would say that is really a relationship that you would have to have between you and mommy.

You know, we call her mommy.

So forewarning, I'm probably going to refer to her a lot as mommy.

You know, there's been practitioners like, so like my elder, for example, Bruja B.

She is someone who doesn't really show her altars anymore.

She doesn't really show her working altars.

For years she did, you know, but mommy put on her heart, like, I don't want you to do this anymore.

You know, where me, I was kind of like the opposite.

Like for years, I very much, whenever I recorded videos, I never, ever, ever showed any of my working alters, you know.

Even now, I won't show my working alter, but something, what if they has put on my heart that I can show her alter that I have in the house.

So I think it really is just a one on one relationship.