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Lying Low Blues! The incomparable Frances Tease sings the 'Songwriter X and the Skeleton band' original blues tune. Our links:
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Lying Low Blues! The incomparable Frances Tease sings the 'Songwriter X and the Skeleton band' original blues tune. Our links:
T shirts- etsy.com/shop/SongwriterX?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=22808945
Twiter: twitter.com/XavierCalvera
Facebook: facebook.com/SongwriterXandtheSkeletonBand
Spotify: artists.spotify.com/c/artist/0eeFDgdADvU9XBHNJMu50G/profile
on Itunes:itunes.apple.com/us/artist/songwriter-x-and-the-skeleton-band/id1170815885
CD’s- etsy.com/shop/SongwriterX?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=22807839


![Babalu Aye
Babalu Aye. From the musical The Orishas Are Coming to America, Featuring Frances Tease on vocals and Roberto Gutierrez in percussion. Music by Xavier Calvera, book by Sue McRoberts Calvera.
Babalu Aye:
Babalú-Aye (from yoruba Obalúayé), Oluaye, Ṣọpọna, Ayé in Trinidad Orisha,[1] or Obaluaiye, is one of the orishas or manifestations of the supreme creator god Olodumare in the Yoruba religion of West Africa. Babalú-Aye is the spirit of the Earth and strongly associated with infectious disease, and healing.
He promotes the cure for illnesses. He is always close to Iku (the force responsible for taking life), as he promotes healing for those who are close to death.[2] However, some fear Obaluaye because he is believed to bring disease upon humans, including smallpox, in which he is known as Ṣọpọna.[citation needed]
His cult powers and spells are used against all kinds of diseases, but particularly against skin diseases, inflammation and airborne diseases that can cause epidemics. They are also used to cure people with seizure problems, epilepsy and catalepsy.[2]
Heat is also a property of Babalu-aye, like fever, the body heating up to expel a disease, it is Babalu-aye acting on the human body, as well as the heat that comes from the depths of the earth. Therefore, any kind of sacrifice or offering to this orisha must be done during the day, when the temperature is higher. Usually considered hobbled by disease, he universally takes grains as offerings.[3]
The Orishas:
The Orishas (singular: orisha)[1] are spirits that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such as Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Santería and Brazilian Candomblé. The preferred spelling varies depending on the language in question: òrìṣà is the spelling in the Yoruba language, orixá in Portuguese, and orisha, oricha, orichá or orixá in Spanish-speaking countries.
According to the teachings of these religions, the orishas are spirits sent by the supreme creator, Olodumare, to assist humanity and to teach them to be successful on Ayé (Earth). Rooted in the native religion of the Yoruba people, most orishas are said to have previously existed in òrún - the spirit world - and then became Irúnmọlẹ̀ - spirits or divine beings incarnated as human on Earth. Irunmole took upon a human identity and lived as ordinary humans in the physical world, but because they had their origin in the divine, they had great wisdom and power at the moment of their creation.
Some believers and practitioners of the Ifá religion, where the pantheon system of orishas originates, believe that orishas are a different class of divine beings who became deified, divinized or transformed after their departure from their human state on Earth. These practitioners believe the orishas to have been ordinary humans who were deified upon their death due to the lives they led, their outstanding spiritual growth and extraordinary feats accomplished in their lives while on Earth.[2]
The orishas found their way to most of the New World as a result of the Atlantic slave trade and are now expressed in practices as varied as Santería, Candomblé, Trinidad Orisha, Umbanda, and Oyotunji, among others. The concept of òrìṣà is similar to those of deities in the traditional religions of the Bini people of Edo State in southern Nigeria, the Ewe people of Benin, Ghana, and Togo, and the Fon people of Benin.[2][3] Babalu Aye](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jG9_biI-Bc4/mqdefault.jpg)







