We’re moving! Orisha Online Altar is moving to a new domain, Orisha.me Please update your bookmarks and links. This site will be up until April or May of 2023 to give everyone who is linking to us time. Crystals have been used in Vodun and the African diaspora for centuries, but few people alive today know exactly how they were used originally. There has been a lot of mixture of belief from Hinduism, Kemetic, and other…
We’re moving! Orisha Online Altar is moving to a new domain, Orisha.me Please update your bookmarks and links. This site will be up until April or May of 2023 to give everyone who is linking to us time. Some say that in Africa, before western influence, there was no such thing as romantic love. The truth is much more complicated than this. There was romantic love, and it was well recognized. It was just referred…
We’re moving! Orisha Online Altar is moving to a new domain, Orisha.me Please update your bookmarks and links. This site will be up until April or May of 2023 to give everyone who is linking to us time. A gris-gris (also spelled gri-gri) is an amulet or talisman made by placing particular objects or ingredients into a small package for a specific purpose. They were originally called “ouanga” or “wanga”, and are sometimes called mojo…
