he garden of blood and bones
palo mayombe
nicholaj de mattos frisvold
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Palo
Mayombe - The Garden of Blood and Bones is available in a paperback
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Palo Mayombe - The Garden of Blood and Bones
is an initiates account of this much maligned
religion and cult whose central nigromantic mystery is the prenda, the
cauldron containing the human skull or bones, re-animated by living spirit.
A masterful study with four tipped in colour plates of the author's prendas,
and the firmas/signatures of the principle spirits rendered in pen and
ink.
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold traces the roots of Palo Mayombe back to Kongolese
sorcery, the warrior and leopard societies, and the impact of the Portugese
Mission. The original African faith is carried in chains across the abysmal
waters of Kalunga and it flowers in Cuba as a New World Creole religion
and cult. Yet Palo Mayombe can only be truly understood in the light of
a highly developed African cosmology.
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 Misa Espiritual suggests one way in which we can reforge that vital
connection and resurrect both our dead and ourselves.
In Palo Mayombe the golden vein of fire still transmits the ancestral
wisdom and transforms the Paleros into true spiritual warriors who are
the walking dead.
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.
This is a serious study which confronts the sinister
and violent aspects of the cult, but rather than purveying lurid sensationalism
expresses the deep dignity and integrity of its nature.
This is a book written from inside the cult, and will serve as a guide
for practising Paleros and those seeking initiation, not simply a Western
audience. With
access to rare materials, pamphlets, booklets and unpublished field notes,
this is the most comprehensive study of Palo Mayombe to date.
Santeros and practitioners of Vodou will also find much to ponder within
these pages.
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. This
has led to a multiplicity of initiations into Vodou, both from Benin and
Haiti, Santeria, Kimbanda, Palo Mayombe and Ifá. He makes part
of the council of elders in the Ogboni society of Abeokuta, Nigeria.
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.
We are delighted to be making this precious work available.
The hardback edition is also in
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