Black Spirituality Religion : Looking for Info About the Orishas Aja and Erinle

[river]

I'm trying to find info about healing orishas. All the info I could find about Babalu points to him as one who causes disease, with healing as something that he also does. Aja and Erinle seem to be what I am looking for but precise info about them is hard to find.

The reason I need this information is because I am writing a book in which one of my characters is a priestess of Candomblé. The protagonist's mother is hospitalized with high blood pressure so the priestess needs to invoke an orisha on her behalf.

I know that orisha have numbers, colors and objects associated with them, for instance, Xangô (Candomblé or Portuguese spelling of Shango) is associated with the numbers 4 and 6, his colors are red and white and his symbol is a double headed ax. I can't seem to find info like that for Aja or Erinle so how would a priestess go about invoking them?

 

[Corvo]

Omolú or Obaluaiyé are the Orishas of healing in Candomble.

 

[river]

Thanks. where is the best place to find information about them? I had come across omolu but the info I found suggested he is syn ominous with babalu.

 

[Corvo]

http://chassdance.blogspot.com/2009/05/omolu.html

This might be helpfull, the rituals are seldom put down on paper.
These are oral traditions. Please don't write down on paper what a priestess (Mai) does in healing.

 

[river]

http://chassdance.blogspot.com/2009/05/omolu.html

This might be helpfull, the rituals are seldom put down on paper.
These are oral traditions. Please don't write down on paper what a priestess (Mai) does in healing.

okay, I won't. As a writer, I can just allude to it without giving any details. I can't write down more than what has already been written . I just don't want to write any false information. The book will be factual but still fiction.

The story you are about to read is true. The plot has been changed to protect the innocent.