African Drumming Song - Ancestors Forever! / Mababu Milele

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Comment by ënagualí~ᏉLAᗪἇ ኔጡ። 6 hours ago

I went to a Afro-Brazilian Umbanda Baptism [Batismo] event a few weeks back up in Auckland, a friend of mine from Brazil had her baby boys ceremony, they had this old African music playing in the back ground,as it was held at a urban home, normally they would have drums being played live but they also did song & dance, they were all dressed in white and the ladies had the old slave scarfs wrapped around their heads, then they did channeling messages 'Kizomba de Preto Velho' which are specific spirits like those of former slaves..

I couldn't see the full rituals as they were covered with a blanket and smoke was being blown over them also from the pipe the ancient spirit used, as well as by a incense burner, being swung between the people doing the ceremony, they also washed the babies head with a cocoa nut type mixture it was milky and had brown powder floating in it and also other dried things like bark & seed pods that would have been a special type from Brazil no doubt, then place a small wooden carved cross inside the babies nappy in the frount of the Rue herb. After the ceremony I got asked if I wanted a hands on healing for my shoulder, I agreed and this is what the lady did, first I had to sit on this tiny 3 legged stool in frount of her, I had a guy translating anything she said into English. She then held my hands in hers, and blew smoke into them and above my head and another man stepped forth and waved a white cotton cloth over it above my head [ these Pretos Velhos are old lady & men slaves they even wear the checkered skirts & have their heads wrapped in a white scarf, and they smoke pipes]

Then translated she said ''I'm going to take the pain away from your arm and I want you to close your eyes and envisage every time I pull down your arm with my hands that I'm actually wiping away mud from your arm and I'll throw it to the ground and command it stays there and return to the earth & mother earth is to absorb it instead".

I nodded, so she then hugged me I was like woah I havnt been hugged by a woman like that in years it was a real firm love hug and she held me like that for a few minutes on one side , then on the other side for a few minutes, all the time the other members of the group were chanting in Portuguese around the room and then she started to pull down my right arm again, all the time talking in this Portuguese casting a spell of sorts...she went faster then pulling and tugging all the way down my arm to my finger tips & flicking it, as if it was sticking to her hands, the translator said:-  she's removing what I've held inside for way too long, now open your eyes, I opened my eyes suddenly and she had her eyes closed, she took a puff on her pipe and blew smoke over my shoulder and the same on the other side, then I saw the cloth again catching the smoke she was handed the cloth it was the same one the smoke was waved away with before, she placed it over my shoulder, placed her hands over the cloth for a second, then under the cloth, I felt a gushing feeling again in my head & hear the rushing sound along side my steady heart beat, it was a weird yet an amazing feeling.

Here is a PDF on some of the things they do..

https://www.scribd.com/document/746635625/Umbanda-Baptism