Status Updates From Mojo Workin': The Old Afric...

Reading this after watching Spell made for a very interesting morning!

This is a goldmine of information so far, i have to stop highlighting the book it's nearly all lit up

Ring shout.

New World to the Old, the African Religion Complex
1. counterclockwise sacred circle dancing
2. spirit possession,
3. the principle of sacrifice,
4. ritual water immersion,
5. divination,
6. ancestor reverence,
7. belief in spiritual cause of malady, and
8. herbal and naturopathic medicine.

kongo cosmogram

spit

Hair, nails, saliva

book recs

it reads “nation within a nation”. i read “nation without a nation”. it still stands.

Very interesting.

I've been learning a lot. I saw some reviews on GR saying the book is antisemitic, and it's not. Hazzard explicitly states where white Ashkenazim stand--that they don't have any power in comparison to white Christians and were routinely subjected to gatekeeping and ostracism in higher fields, so they turned to where they could profit which coincided with expanding white supremacy.

The Pan-African details actually made me so happy to learn about.

Very informative about the history of rootwork/hoodoo. I was surprised to find out how misinterpreted hoodoo/rootwork is in media today.

I'm probably finished and won't read any more of this book. I've learned enough to understand Hoodoo is its own religious practice; not just a form of folk magic. And as a non-initiate (especially a white non-initiate) it's not appropriate for me to practice Hoodoo. I may pick it up again in the future to further my education, but I have so many other books that are more applicable to my religious studies.

Still fascinating to see the parallels with Lucumí. I was especially intrigued about the similarities of the divination items used by the Hoodoo priest and the items a Lucumí priest receives upon initiation.

The author's a little repetitive and it's a much dryer academic read than I'm used to it, but it's very educational. It's fascinating to see the similarities between Hoodoo and Lucumi.