By: Tobgi Kofi
When one pours Libation they are invoking, summoning, awaking the Ancestors and the Vodou.There are many reasons why we Pour libation in African traditional Religions, honoring the Ancestors and Vodou, asking for knowledge, protection, guidance and more. Before I embark on a long trip, I pour libation so that I am kept safe and so that my trip goes well, successful. Libation is the same as making a long distance call. The Ancestors are in the ancestral realm, They have lives much the same as we do. They are a considerable distance from us here on Earth. This system has been put in place by the creator so that we can at all times have immediate access to the Vodou and the ancestors. Have you ever been in your garden or basement and the phone rings? Generally you will stop what you are doing and answer the call, especially if you have reason to believe it’s coming from a loved one. Ever been sitting around waiting for an important call this can be torture when it either doesn’t come or it takes too long. The Ancestors are our family and they have been divinely entrusted with our spiritual development. They have a divine directive to watch over us and guide us but, How can they do so( guide us) if we don’t make the call. We are not like the whites, we are divine beings who carry an actual piece of the Creator inside of us, and that’s our Soul. Whites and non-Africans don’t have a soul although they would like us to believe they do. We know different the Vodou tell us the truth about whites that’s why there is absolutely no excuse for Africans to be marrying or initiating whites into African religions not even allowing them to attend our ceremonies. The Ancestors are tied to us in the same way a mother is tied to the child through the umbilical cord during pregnancy. The child is developing and needs the mother’s nurturing, feeding and so on. We are just like that child, we are still developing and we feed of the guidance we receive from our Ancestors. A child developing inside the mother becomes malformed when the mother ingests foreign agents such as illicit drugs and bad food but a good diet keeps the growing fetus in balance. So does the African become mentally malformed or sick when we don’t commune by calling our ancestors through libation for balance. When balance is lost we are open to any and all sorts of mental illness. Having mental seizures trying to be like whites marrying them, white thinking, materialism, family strife, lovers of porn, drugs, etc. Libation is the means by which we call the ancestors and the Vodou, thus allowing the family elders and Vodou to begin restoring balance to the individual or the community. I remember I once told a women that I was a Vodoun priest and she said,” Oh you mean, that you worship Idols, fetish…oh my god” You like that? I responded by saying, I don’t worship Idols and the word fetish is a word the whites gave to our ancestral religious practice. The woman said, “don’t you have carved images”? I said, Yes we carve images sometimes and sometimes the Vodou are in a pot or carved sticks figures or some other form but, I don’t worship any carved images. I know that when I go to that image or whatever form the Vodou wish to use to manifest their presence, I can pour libation on or before it and call the Vodou. It’s no different from you picking up a cell phone and calling your friend the friend hears the call and responds by answering back. If you lived 200 years ago and were caught talking to a square 2x4 inch piece of plastic people would be afraid and think you were mad but, if they heard a voice come out of that piece of plastic they would burn you for being a witch. They just would not have understood the science behind the method of communication being used. Likewise those who criticize shrine veneration and libation don’t understand that we don’t worship the thing, we recognize it to be just that a thing, a tool, a phone if you will to call on our Vodou and Ancestors Our traditional phone’s technology (Science) however, is more sophisticated than modern phones our technology is timeless. Make a call to our Ancestors through the daily pouring of libations.
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