• Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens

  • The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions
  • By: Lilith Dorsey
  • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
  • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (202 ratings)

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Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens

By: Lilith Dorsey
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
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An inspiring exploration of the goddesses of the West African spiritual traditions and their role in shaping Yoruba (Ifa), Santeria, Haitian vodoun, and New Orleans voodoo.

Throughout Africa and beyond in the diaspora caused by the slave trade, the divine feminine was revered in the forms of goddesses like the ancient Nana Buluku, water spirits like Yemaya, Oshun, and Mami Wata, and the warrior Oya. The power of these goddesses and spirit beings has taken root in the West. New Orleans, for example, is the home of Marie Laveau, who used her magical powers to become the "Voodoo Queen" of New Orleans.

Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens shows you how to celebrate and cultivate the traits of these goddesses, drawing upon their strengths to empower your own life. In addition to offering a guided tour of the key goddesses of the African religious traditions, the book offers magical spells, rituals, potions, astrological correspondences, sacred offerings, and much more to help guide you on your own transformational journey.

©2020 Lilith Dorsey (P)2020 Tantor

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Extremely informative!

I loved so many things about this book. I have multiple notes/bookmarks attached for future reference. Thank you!

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Extremely thorough!

I absolutely loved this book. It was very thorough and is a fantastic resource book. I can see myself going back and reviewing certain sections again. I also thought the narrator did an excellent job as well!

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If you’re looking for where to start..

Start HERE! This book really helped to give me a basic understanding of each entity, their history, and how you can honor or get to know them more in the present day. Definitely getting a paperback version so I can always jump back to the parts I need.

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Learning in depth

I enjoyed this book mainly because the author pairs both goddess and history directly with practices and blessings know for that specific deity. So it’s really good at combining what Orishas do and need to be summoned or called soon for which blessings your looking for!

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Very Informative

Very informative. I recommend getting a hard copy to be used as a reference because it’s a lot of information and actually being able to physically read it, take notes, highlight, bookmark etc would be very helpful.

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Enjoyed this listen more than I expected!

Enjoyed listening, some of the pronunciations could be better! I plan to purchase a physical copy for all the helpful references and recipes!

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Informative

I loved everything about this book. Not only is the author, really knowledgeable, but the person who read the book did so in a way that it kept my attention. This is probably a book that I will actually buy to have the physical book as reference.

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Greatness I'm so excited to have found this book.

This wonderful book was very informative for me and my friends I'm so looking forward to reading more from this beautiful Goddess

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Excellent book

The narrator is absolutely perfect. She kept me so enthralled in this book. I wish other narrators spoke like her so correct with no incorrect pronunciations. I can’t tell you the amount of book I have returned because I can’t even make it out of the introduction because the narrator butchers so many words.
Beautiful phenomenal book and narrator.

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Amazing knowledge and break down

This book is perfect for those wanting to increase their knowledge on women spiritualists and African diaspora based spirituality. Will highlight recommend. I finished the audible and starting it right over again to soak in more knowledge!

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