A Hasty Disc ON PALO AND ITS Belief SYSTEM:
Palo, or Las Reglas de Congo are a group of closely applicable religions or denominations, which off in the Spanish colonies of the Caribbean with Medium African slaves of in the main Bantu lineage. Far-off names share the accomplishments with more or less undergrowth of this religion encompass Mayombe, Briyumba and Kimbisa.
Palo has its pedigree in the Congo hole of key Africa, from where immense voters of African slaves were brought to Cuba, Puerto Rico, as well as to the completion of Santo Domingo, the offer wealth of the Dominican Republic.
The pin practice of Palo focuses upon the pious compact or altar renowned as a Nganga or Prenda. This is a blessed distribute round with sacred earth, brushwood (palos), everyday flotsam and jetsam, bones and other items. Both Nganga is loyal to a candid spiritual Nkisi (Consecrated Textile). This pious distribute is moreover uptown by a muerto or spirit of the dead (vis-?-vis never the direct forebear of the object's homeowner), moreover referred to as "Nfumbe"
Unusual divination methods are hand-me-down in Palo. One, Chamalongos uses shells or disks of more or less assets, commonly coconut shells. A in addition traditional figure, Vititi Mens'u, is a form of envisioning or scrying, using a consecrated animal horn capped with a mirror.
"Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo (religion)"
Now I hand down be gulf some writings on the Palo Belief and Theology graciousness of my good Brother Yamil Henriquez "( Tata Nkisi Malongo Kongo Manankita)" who was inherent and raised in the Palo Theology and its Normal Beliefs and Wisdom.
PALO KONGO FROM CUBA; THE KONGO Theology OF CUBA.
"By Yamil Henriquez ( Tata Nkisi Malongo Kongo Manankita)"
"In palo we accept in nsambie (God) malongo (font) or the value and spirit of font and nfumbe (which is the spirit that is here the kettle.) Zarabanda, lucero, and 7rayos are names that were twisted to metamorphose on one aspect of font but in palo mayombe and traditional briyumba suspicion we do not accept in Gods. This God feeling secret code was adopted from the yoruba tradition and integrated in some palo houses. Normal kongo religion in cuba concentrates on malongo or font...the necessary essence of our religion."
"One of the strong bits and pieces that we accept in palo is learning font. This is a font based religion. Peak a true nganga practitioner have got to know his flora and leaves. We can do bad wanga or good. We ramble with each hands. Fine and bad. I grew up with my grandfather, godfather,and my aunt and uncle and they taught me flora and they're candid uses. Specified can be hand-me-down for bad and some for good, some to heal and some to mob. This is essential to know in palo kongo. In palo we do accept in pedigree and we ramble with and are guided by spirits that were with us for example we were inherent that were kongos as well."
"These spirits as well are the opening ones to be venerated in a palo room entirely at the back of God. They are the spirits that guide us and let us know to the fore of time what is to come. They are feeling line loa. These spirits are served with auburn, cigars, candid foods, animal disbursement as well as libations such as firewater(agua ardiente or malafo in the kongo languange). Award is contemporary type of threaten we give over to the nganga which is completed from brushwood, peppers, and flora, this put aside is put here with fire water and mysterious under a tree for fermentation. This put aside is called chamba or malafo che che. This is to care the nganga so it can work more rapidly and to breach any wanga that a classify may worry not here to mob them or poision them. In palo we use gun powder as well to send the spirit on an stalk. We moreover use an aim called katiyembo which is a clay jug that is prepared to send the spirit to either bang or aim a bad spirit off a classify. This jug is irregularly hand-me-down In some houses."
"Early in palo the ngangas were constructed in baumbas or makout a lot completed from personage squeeze feeling palm trees or burlap inferno. The approach of these ngangas and how they were built were called nganga tapete.
These Ngangas were hung in leaves unrelated, candid and sacred leaves. Diverse approach of having ngangas were here of tree caves which are the leaves that worry a hole in the hunt. These two styles I explained were the opening ways of having ngangas in cuba and very few civilization now a days know about these secrets.
"The ngangas from since did not worry names feeling zarabanda, 7rayos, lucero, madre agua ect ect. They had mark names feeling escobita barre con todo, sapatico malavianda,tormenta vira mundo, nganga kataumba, nganga lumboma, ect. The kongos in cuba never intended in entities. In palo they appropriately belived in nsambi (God), malongo (Benign) and nfumbe ( the spirit of the dead they completed a exchange with in the cementery). Populace are the three pin data within a nganga. Now in days a lot of modern paleros poverty to bring pious entities that worry similarities as the ones in santeria or the yoruba culture in cuba."
"I breeze this for fill civilization out near who would feeling to know in addition of the kongo religions in Cuba and to extend the knowledge as well with other communities to bring unity."
"Information Copyright (c) Yamil Henriquez ( Tata Nkisi Malongo Kongo Manankita)"
Note: The words lwa or loas were hand-me-down here as an example to teach vodou practitioners about the Palo culture and is not to be entranced with the mixing of the two traditions.
