Orisha Statue- Orula
In stock at Atlanta and Decatur.
What this is
For the altar itself rather than for one working — what the rest of it is set upon and kept in.
The practice
What this tradition does with an object like this — how it is used, not a promise about what follows.
- Mondaythe Moon’s day — worked for the roads, the home, and anything that has to open.
How it is used
- 1Given its own place, kept clean, and kept apart from where ordinary things are put down.
- 2Water is the simplest and oldest offering. Changed, not topped up.
Working it properly
The craft under the instructions — direction, count and order. This is the part that is normally only said across a counter.
- Its own surface, kept apart from where ordinary things are put down. What makes an altar is that nothing else is allowed on it.
- Water is the oldest offering and it is CHANGED, not topped up — the glass is emptied away from the door and refilled.
- Kept clean and kept tended. In this tradition neglect is itself a message, not a neutral state.
- Candles are set on it rather than in it: the altar is the ground, and the working is what stands on the ground.
What completes the working
A working is a ladder, not a single object. Each rung below says what the addition does, and shows what Yeye's Botanica carries for it.
what is set on it — the altar is the ground a working stands on
the surface is wiped down before anything is placed
the customary way a surface is put into use before it is first used
What people get wrong
- Letting the altar become a shelf. A surface that collects post is not an altar any more.
Named for Orula
Divination and destiny. Consulted rather than petitioned.
- ColoursGreen and yellow
- Customary offeringLeft to those his house has given the right.
What is here is what the label says and what any botanica will tell you across the counter. Ceremony, initiation and anything belonging to a house is not ours to publish — that is between you and a padrino or madrina.
