MAIGARMAR
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THE ASHE. Bestowed on the Yorubas since the day the Orisha of the sky, Obatala, molded them of water and clay, it was the essence of the Orishas at which they breathed into them. Giving them the ability to use a fraction of their powers of whichever Orisha chose them. The Ashe can only be utilized after one takes the Ashe ritual whereas the appropriate incantations are made while the person is buried in the Red Sand. One comes out of the Red Sand with the Ashe mark imprinted on their body, with it specifying whose deity essence you possess. With some Ashe marks representing multiple Orishas, the deity's Ashe at which they wield is found out by what powers they exhibit or whose shrine they share affinity with. The Ashe marks vary with that of Obatala being one single mark, Ogun with two, Sango with three, Osun...Eshu..Babalu-Aye with four and Oya & Orunmila with five marks. With each mark cocoons and their patron deity(s) was a day for their worship. The Yorubas had six days a week.
Ojọ Ósé- The first day of the week is
for Obatala.
Ojọ Ogun- The second day is for Ogun.
Ojọ Jákúta- The third day is for Sango.
Ojọ Àìkú- The fourth day is for Osun,
Eshu and Babalu-Aye.
Ojọ Awo- The fifth day is for Orunmila.
And then there's the sixth day. It was a day of bad omen, celebrating any sort of acheivement or starting your trade on the sixth day wasn't encouraged. Even pregnant women whose delivery of their children unfortunately fall on it, torture themselves holding onto their infants so as to not give birth on that day. The reason for the stigma was due to it being the former worship day of the sea god "Olokun". It lost its attachment to the customs of OYO since the defiant god allowed it's worshippers eat of the forbidden fruit and became the Olossi, the demons that ravage the coastal lands south of OYO. It's worship day lost its rights, the shrine of the rebel Orisha torn and it's worshippers of whom the people of OYO could capture were killed, everyone who assumed the six marks of the sea god had their head leave it's body.
And with eyes from all over the kingdom all oin whose Orisha's Ashe adedayo would claim, a surprise emerges from the Red Sand to greet their curiosity.