Palo Mayombe - The Garden of Blood and Bones. A Grammary of Creole Sorcery.
UK: Bibliotheque Rouge [ Scarlet Imprint ], 2011. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Octavo. iv + 225pp. Red printed wrappers, upper wrapper illustrated in black, upper wrapper and spine titled black & white lettering, glossary, bibliography, index. Four colour plates of the author's prendas, and the firmas/signatures of the principle spirits rendered in pen and in. The softcover Bibliotheque Rouge edition of this popular title from the Scarlet Imprint. An initiate's account of this much maligned religion and cult whose central nigromantic mystery is the cauldron containing the human skull or bones, re-animated by living spirit. Written from inside the cult, With access to rare materials, pamphlets, booklets and unpublished field notes, this is the most comprehensive study of Palo Mayombe to date. Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold traces the roots of Palo Mayombe from its origins in African sorcery, to its flowering Cuba as a New World Creole religion and cult. In drawing parallels with both the Ancient Greek practices of Necromancy and Nigromancy, and the Grimoire tradition, Nicholaj also illuminates the Western Tradition, showing what we have lost in our denial of the dead and the cult of the ancestors. The magical head of Palo Mayombe in it's three legged iron cauldron has implications for understanding our own histories, whether Odin, Baphomet, Bran, John the Baptist or Orpheus. The Garden of Blood and Bones gives explicit detail of the workings of Palo Mayombe for good and ill. The method of divination, the herbs, animals, trees and plants, powders, baths and waters, the songs and chants. It presents a complete living system one which embraces both the arts of healing and resurrection, and those that remove life. Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold is an anthropologist and psychologist who over the course of the last fifteen years been studying, both academically and practically, African and Afro-derived cults in the New World. He has for the last decade lived in Brazil where his studies and involvement in traditional forms of metaphysics, faith, cult and witchcraft is a constant theme in his life. Hint of shelf-wear, otherwise in Fine condition. Item #70489
ISBN: 9780956720399
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