![]() He may object to cleaning products with strong odors too, as well as air fresheners with strong aromas. ![]() If you smoke, then do so far from his altar space or anywhere associated with him. He doesn’t like strong, pervasive odors of any kind, but especially tobacco. His movements are also snake-like, and can including slithering along the ground, flicking his tongue, and climbing tall objects. When he possesses a human, he does not speak but instead only hisses and whistles. Damballah may hiss or make whistling noises but does not speak human language. He is so old and primal that he is pre-articulate he emerges from a time before speech. He will engage in sacred marriages with women but also occasionally with men.ĭambullah appears in dreams. Despite his venerable age, he remains interested in people. He can be extremely generous, however, and so may be approached when one is genuinely desperate or really in trouble. He is incredibly old and powerful and is usually not bothered for trivial matters. As a source of life, he is also strongly associated with water and regulates moisture and the rain. He bestows wealth, prosperity, good health, and fertility to devotees and can expose the location of missing treasure.ĭamballah and his true love, the rainbow serpent, maintain the balance of forces, which sustains all ife on Earth. He associated with creation and is viewed as a loving father to the world. ![]() He may also survive in the New Orleans folk saint Blanc Dani.ĭamballah is among the most beloved and important Iwa. He is venerated in Dahomey as well as Haitian Vodou. That power is manifest in human beings in the form of white liquids: milk and semen.Īssociated Catholic Saint Patrick (who drove the snakes out of Ireland), and sometimes also Moses, whose staff transformed into a snake to prove the power of God over that wielded by Egyptian priests, Damballah is the primordial snake Iwa of life, wealth and wisdom. The intensive all pervasive power of that love infiltrated the entire universe. The first rain began to fall, and Aido-Hwedo, in the guise of the first rainbow, appeared. Sacred waters were released, forming oceans, rivers, springs and streams. His movements raised mountains and created valleys. Although he lay still for a long time, eventually he had to move. He lay beneath Earth, a great snake, cushioning and protecting it from falling into the watery abyss below. Once upon a time, there was only Damballah. Altar: Keep shallow vessels of clean, fresh water for him to curl up inside.Plants: Bougainvillea, trees in general, but especially the silk cotton tree (Bombax ceiba) and the Royal palm.Manifestation: Damballah is a huge snake, so big his body forms seven thousand coils.Other names: Damballah Weddo, Da, Papa Damballa, Obatala.
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