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    Orishas: African Hidden gods of Worship
    Orishas: African Hidden gods of Worship
    Orishas: African Hidden gods of Worship
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    Orishas: African Hidden gods of Worship

    By Jim Landry

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    A emerging shift in praise, worship and music has secretly been introduced into many Christian fellowships during past 400 years and now is the hour of restoration. The demonic effects of drumming in Christian Worship, Drum assisted Prophesy, Secular Music and Television.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTruth Book Publishers
    Release dateMar 4, 2020
    ISBN9781618132819
    Orishas: African Hidden gods of Worship

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    • 5/5
      excellent teaching read more then once also listen to a teaching on lake hamilton about it.
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      I don’t know what I just read but skimmed through some pages and giving it one star. Should get less.
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      God allowed us to create languages, religions, and divided us into multiple groups. we all praise and worship the supreme creator. Yoruba religion is based on peace and establishes a connection with mother nature. Mr. Jim Landry is an ignorant calling us demons.

      Please folks, draw your own conclusions.

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    Orishas - Jim Landry

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    Preface

    The inspiration to research and write about these principalities began February of 1993. I was introduced to the orisha religion by a member of our local fellowship who suggested that I should seriously consider attending an orisha presentation being presented by Dr. Sheila Walker, doctor of anthropology. During her introduction it was established of her professorship at the University of Texas and affiliation with the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Walker lecture was presented in honor of black history month. The speaker had spent many years of research, living amongst the people of Brazil. These meetings were held at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. The professor’s message was so promoted that the department asked her back two consecutive years during the observation of black history month. The orisha are found throughout Africa. Dr. Walkers lecture was centered on the peoples of the Yorubalands, West Nigeria.

    Orisha (also spelled Orisa or Orixa) is a spirit or deity that reflects one of the manifestations of Olodumare (god) in the Yoruba spiritual or religious system. This religion has found its way throughout the world and is now expressed in several varieties which include Candomble, Lucumi/Santeria, Vodou, Shango in Trinidad, Anago, Oyotunji as well as some aspects of Umbanda, Winti, Obeah, Vogun and many others. These varieties or spiritual lineages as they are called are practiced throughout areas of Nigeria, the Republic of Benin, Togo, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad, Tobago, the United States, Venezuela and presently many nations. While estimates vary, there could be more than 100 million adherents of this spiritual tradition worldwide.

    In exposing the orishas, the hidden gods of worship, it is my prayer to share with the reader what the gods of the Yoruba represent and how these principalities are masquerading themselves as gods, throughout American culture in religion, television and music, and carefully hidden to the natural man. The orisha which have their earliest known worship originating in Africa, were transferred primarily through the men of color throughout Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean, America and throughout the world during the early slavery years. Today Orisha worship has been forgotten by many people of color. But the orishas never gave up their works, continuing their lust for worship and power through many unsuspecting descendants and idolaters who were totally ignorant of their devices for nearly 400 years in the United States of America, and the Americas. They have infiltrated a number of secular and religious institutions that I will list specifically in this book. Originally their lust for power was centered on the descendants of the African race, but not anymore. They have been worshiped for many generations on this continent, obviously under many disguises and several different names all having their origin from Satan.

    The word Orisha is linked to the Yoruba. It is their word for head. Ori is the orisha name for the symbol of the essence of one’s personality. The spiritual head is that which before birth, kneels, as the Yoruba say, to choose a personal fate. These are familiar spirits, masquerading as a past leader or tribal ancestor. The head is that which for all its uniqueness also contains and expresses the spirit of an ancestor reincarnated.

    Orisha worship has already infiltrated a number of Christian denominations throughout the world. They will continue unchallenged unless believers armed in spiritual warfare expose and destroy their armor and spoil their goods. I believe Christians of color should strongly consider this information in properly breaking soul ties, generational curses, traditional praise and worship centered around the great emphasis on drumming and dancing to reach an heighten experience to control what they believe is the Holy Spirit showing up? The rocks are crying out and the Church is for the most part silent.

    Chapter 1

    Yoruba Orisha History

    The Yoruba constitutes one of the major ethnic groups in Nigeria. The Yoruba are deeply religious people and have a strong belief in the existence of supernatural powers and that these supernatural powers affect the everyday life of man for good or evil. The Yoruba conceive the supernatural powers as being of two types, good and evil. These good supernatural powers are also believed to be of two types: the gods or orisha and the ancestors or Oku Orun. The good supernatural powers aid man in his daily life. Generally speaking, the gods and ancestor powers do not work against man’s interest and therefore are regarded as friends of man, protecting him from the evil powers. The evil supernatural powers are also of two types: the Ajogun, considered the belligerent enemies of man and the Eniyan or Eleye witches. These evil powers work against man’s interest by trying to prevent the timely achievement of his destiny, by inflicting premature death, infirmity and loss.

    Orisha worship is the traditional religion of the Yoruba people of West Africa. The Yoruba people brought their religion to the world during the European colonization of the Americas, and later the United States of America.

    Nine million plus people who live in the fertile region now known as Western Nigeria consider themselves Yoruba. Other Yoruba with whom the Nigerian people share a common language and culture, is found in Dahomey, Togo and Ghana. Still others, descendants of Yoruba whose forefathers were sold into slavery, retain certain aspects of their old culture in the countries of South America, Cuba, India, the Caribbean and of course the United States of America.

    Who are these orisha? They have no counterpart in anything we know in the West. To the people and descendants of Western Nigeria, they are African; they are complex; they are the embodiment of certain truths, both human and otherwise, that they have come to recognize. The Yoruba believe that most of the orishas walked the earth one or more times as humans. To the Yoruba people, the orishas are guardians through whom one lives a more intense life vicariously guides, whose excess of energy leads their devotees to a more placid, a more balanced existence. The view of life upon which the religion of the Yoruba is based is a world infused with spirit and spirits, the community of the dead and the living. The gods of the Yorubaland people are demonic entities (spirit guides, familiar spirits) masquerading themselves as ancestors speaking from the dead. Christian churches and believers are commanded not to practice ancestor worship. In this book I cover how many unsuspecting groups and believers do practice ancestor worship.

    The orishas are the emissaries of Olodumare whom they refer to as god almighty. They are said to rule over the forces

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