We welcome all custom orders for our products or requests for new ones. If you would like a loa tile that we don't yet offer, feel free to message us so we can add it to our selection. This tile depicts one of his veves and measures 7." x 5." In his Petro aspect he is Damballah Nan Flambo – Damballah of the Flame – and is believed to speak through flames and fires. He is married to Erzulie Freda, the flirtatious goddess of love. He is the protector of the handicapped, deformed, cripples and albinos. His movements are also snake-like, and can including slithering along the ground, flicking his tongue, and climbing tall objects.ĭamballah Wedo is associated with creation and is viewed as a loving father to the world.ĭamballah Wedo is strongly connected to the ancestors, and he and his companion Ayida-Wedo are the oldest and wisest of the loa.ĭamballa rules the intellect, the mind, and keeps cosmic balance. When he possesses a human, he does not speak but instead only hisses and whistles. As a source of life, he is also strongly associated with water and the rain. From the Sosyete du marche site: 'The great Sky Father, married to the primal Erzulie and paired with Ayida Wedo, the Rainbow Serpent, Damballah personifies the primary foundational precepts of Vodou. I’m setting up Damballah altar and i need more offerings. The individual, as the flesh and blood sum of his ancestors, is a synthesized version of all those who have gone before.Damballah Wedo is depicted as a serpent or snake, and his veves reflect this aspect of him. Damballah is the third African Power honored at the White Shrine and is a Vodoun Lwa of Profound antiquity. Damballa, also spelled Damballah, Dambala, Dambalah, among other variations (Haitian Creole: Danbala), is one of the most important of all loa, spirits in. Communion with the ancestors is a means of maintaining continuity and a basis of transcendence between life and the afterlife. Ancestors are like their descendants but more powerful living, loving, understanding, and communicating on a plane of reality that is beyond death. They are both symbolized by serpents and from them, the ancestors of the individual are descended.Īccording to “Sosyete du Marche” an American Voodou society, there are two sources of holy truth: the universe around us and the universe within us, passed down from our ancestors as instinct, emotion, predisposition, and memory. By shedding the serpent skin, Damballa created all the waters on the earth. Damballah (also spelled Damballa, Dambala, Dambalah or in Haitian Creole. Damballa, as the serpent spirit and The Great Master, created the cosmos by using his 7,000 coils to form the stars and the planets in the heavens and to shape the hills and valleys on earth. 104 Baron Samedi, 94 Carrefour, 93 Damballah Wedo, 92, 128 Ezili Danto, 94, 101. His truth and magic lie in His truth which is that moment of change. His attributes are wisdom, fecundity, abundance and fertility. Each piece is a one of a kind original Damballah Wedo Damballah is one of the oldest of the Rada spirts. Bees Black Madonna Christmas traditions in Haiti Croix-des-Bouquets day of the dead decorating for the holidays with folk art decorating with folk art decorating with haitian metal fair trade fair trade federation fighting poverty with art folk art Garden Stakes haiti haitian art Haitian artists Haitian Christmas Haitian coffee haitian folk art Haitian Metal Haitian metal art Haitian metal sculpture Haitian voodoo hanging haitian metal Issues in Haiti It's Cactus jellyfish Latin American Folk Art Loas metal sculpture Nativity Scene owls Philadelphia flower show Philly Flower Show PHS Flower Show Port-au-Prince recycled Haitian metal recycled metal sculpture skeletons slavery in Haiti sustainability Tom's tree of life voodoo voodoo veveĪ Voodoo altar typically holds colorful bottles of drink for the Loa to enjoy during their visits.įather of all things powerful and good, and together they possess the ancestral knowledge that forms the foundation of Voodoo. If you smoke, then do so far from his altar space or anywhere associated with him. Valknot, 127 Vervain, 33 Voodon, 136 Voodoo, 89108 altar, 103. 5 x5 Wooden frame, painted and hand decorated.
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