Surinam realizó una contribución vital para el triunfo de los aliados en la Segunda Guerra Mundial proporcionando la bauxita necesaria para producir el aluminio destinado a la construcción de los aviones de guerra.
Obbatalá is one of the seven main Orishas of the Yoruba Pantheon. He is the creator of human beings and all that inhabits the planet. As creator he is the ruler of all parts of the human body, mainly the head, thoughts and human life. He is known for being very merciful, of great patience and love for people. Obbatalá is the owner of white metals, especially silver. His number is 8 and its multiples and his color is white. He is greeted by Jekua Baba! He has the power of being the only Orisha whose ways can be both masculine and feminine.
This orisha always wears white, although his warrior ways, he wears a red band across his chest. His elekes are white in color; depending on the path of Obbatalá, some beads of the characteristic color of that path are also added. The tureen of Obbatalá can be of silver, of some silver-plated metal or of white slab. Its attributes are a silver handle, igbín (snails), slugs, two ivory eggs, mother-of-pearl or white onyx, white Iruke (horse's tail), majá, sun, chain, full moon, crescent moon, a hand holding a scepter, metal doves and an agogó. The Iruke and the Crown of Obbatalá go outside the soup tureen. The agogo is received in the Osha as an accessory tool that lives outside the Orisha's tureen, but accompanies him permanently during the spiritual life of his material representation on the earth plane. Obbatalá's objects of power must always be clean and immaculate.
Depending on the avatar of Obbatalá that is represented, there will be particularities regarding his tools. Obbatalá is invoked through the agogó. When invoking him, the ringing of his bell should be slow, marking a cadence. To call him, the santero uncovers his soup tureen with previous license, then he must kneel on a mat, take the agogó with his left hand and then ring it. Rice pudding, meringues, white custard, soursop, pomegranate, white flowers, especially cotton. His taboo are alcoholic beverages, crabs and beans.
They also offer pigeons, chickens, white goats, guineas, all white. His ewes are the acacia, chicory, bell, cotton, gallantry by day, gallantry by night, incense, mallow, sage, clover, among others. The syncretism of this Orisha in the Catholic religion is with the Virgin of Mercy. Her feast is celebrated on September 24th.
Surinam realizó una contribución vital para el triunfo de los aliados en la Segunda Guerra Mundial proporcionando la bauxita necesaria para producir el aluminio destinado a la construcción de los aviones de guerra.
