Ah oui celui-la aussi est important de nos jours.
Orisha: Oshumaré
Catholic Syncretism: Saint Bartholomew
Celebration:
Garments: He uses all colors for his garments, though golden yellow and green are the most important
Beads: Yellow with black stripes, green and ornamented with red and teal blue
Ritual implement: he uses an elongated snake as a type of scepter that he brandishes in dance
Sacrifices: He-goats, rams, turtles, roosters, pigeons and guinea hens
Taboos: None
Ritual numbers: 7 and 12
Oshumaré is the orisha of the rainbow. He is especially associated with Shangó, and helps him keep an environmental harmony by returning to the skies the rain that Shangó, Oyá, and Yemojá send down during storms to satiate the earth’s thirst. As such, Oshumaré represents the continuity of life on earth —the guardian of human life�?as is evident in the representation of the orisha as a coiled snake eating its own tail. In possession, Oshumaré directs his snake-scepter to the sky as if provoking Shangó to send rain. One myth from the odu Ejiogbé Oyekún relates that once, when Olorún had fallen ill, Oshumaré was the only diviner who was able to cure Olorún’s ails. As such, Olorún retains him by his side, allowing him to return to visit the earth every so often but only under the condition that he returns the same day. When the rainbow visits earth, we are blessed if we see it and must interact with it quickly for Olorún will soon call him back home.
This orisha was lost in Cuba in the first half of the twentieth century. His attributes are no longer consecrated, and there is no knowledge about the orisha, even in the areas of the island in which he was known in the 1940s and 50s. Inexplicably, Oshumaré —like the rainbow�?has reappeared in Cuba in the 1990s through the ¡magnificent! institution that I have labeled “diplo-santería,�?and is being consecrated for any extranjero —foreigner�?who pays for it with hard currency!
ToG, Oracle d'Ishtar
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