Interesting Web Sites List - 11/16/99 - update

[Denise Oliver-Velez]

Updated 11/16/99

The following is a list of websites relating to topics discussed here
on alt.religion.orisha. Listing the web site does not mean members of
alt.religion.orisha endorse these sites - you check them out and make
your own judgments.
Please post any other sites you find that are not on this list - and
they will be included next update.

Please let me know if some of these links are outdated, changed, no
longer available - I can't check them all everytime I update.

Alafia,

Denise

P.S. Happy surfing

The Church of the Lucumi Babaluaye has a new URL
http://www.church-of-the-lukumi.org/

http://www.seanet.com/~efunmoyiwa/ochanet.html

OrishaNet - lots of useful and informative articles, glossary etc.
An excellent introduction to Lucumi worship

Yoruba & Orisha pages
http://www.eyeofatum.com/ORISHAYORUBA.html

Egbe Isokan Yoruba
http://www.yoruba.org/

Candomble - the Orisha Religion in Brazil
http://www.candomble.com/candomble.shtml

Portuguese and English

Ilede Homepage - Afro-Cuban drum and dance ensemble
http://www.finearts.yorku.ca/mmarcuzzi/ilede.html

Alafia Net
http://www.finearts.yorku.ca/mmarcuzzi/alafia.html

Orisha List index
http://members.aol.com/starkana/index.htm
articles contributed by members

Asho Orisha (Clothing of the Orisha):Material Culture
as Religious Expression in Santería
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~maryc/Abstract.html
dissertation abstract

Ifa: The indigenous faith of Africa
http://www.osetura.com/
has an orisha chat-room link but I couldn't get it to work

Yoruba Ethnographic Archive
http://anthro.spc.uchicago.edu/~aapter/yea/

Africanias Online
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/5070/

Ile Oshun Funke
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Meadow/3388/

Lydia Cabrera
http://afrocubaweb.com/cabrera.htm
commercial site - all her books (almost)

John Mason
http://www.afrocubaweb.com/Mason.htm
commercial site - all his books

http://www.voiceofwomen.com/omi.html
Omifunke - Keys to Feminine Empowerment
from the Yoruba West African Tradition

African/orisha/voudoun/ film video
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/AfricanVid.html

http://www.inle.freeserve.co.uk/
very informative on Erinle including relationships to Ogun and Yemaya

http://www.ashe.com.ve/index.html
Revista Ache Homepage - a new web magazine specializing in santeria
(in Spanish)

http://www.cultural-expressions.com/babalawo.htm
Babalawo - Ifa Divination

http://www.artnet.net/~ifa/
Ijo Orunmila - a beautiful and spiritual site

http://home.ican.net/~vreznik/lukumi/
home page for Lucumi Gathering

http://members.aol.com/EgbeLukmi/index4.html
Egbe Lucumi Homepage

http://members.aol.com/inquiceweb
InquiceWeb is a site dedicated to all aspects of Kongo Religion:
Palo, Kumina, Umbanda, Quimbanda, Vodoun, Candomble d'Angola
and candomble de Congo.

http://spiritnetwork.com/mamisii/index.htm
West African Dahomean Vodoun

http://www4.nando.net/prof/caribe/Gods.html
exhibition Face of the Gods, conceived by Robert Farris Thompson,
professor of Afro-American Art at Yale University and curator of The
Museum of African Art in New York City, where this traveling show
originated.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1322/page12.html
Museum of Ile Axe Opo Afonja

http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~henrick/SanteriaBooks.html
Book reviews

http://www.dropby.com/Santeria/BODY.html
includes a table of syncretisms

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6735/
Yoruba Lucumi Homepage

http://spiritnetwork.com/mamisii/healers4.html
African Spirituality Directory services
an international directory of (African-based) traditional healers

http://www.icanect.net/~bigblunt/
Olokun Art Projects space

http://orbita.starmedia.com/via/~magicking/CERYL.html
Centro de Estudios de la religion Yoruba Lucumi
(Spanish or Portuguese available)

http://members.tripod.com/~Ejiogbe/
Baba Falade's Afro-Caribbean Spirituality page
including predictions for 1999

http://www.luckymojo.com
* Lucky W Amulet Archive * An illustrated archive of folkloric
amulets, talismans, charms, and magical stuff from many cultures and
every era. (Cat Yronwode's site)

http://users.iol.it/cdi/atr_bibliography.htm
Bibliography on African Traditional Religion

http://www.greendome.org/archives/yoruba/oya.html
Oya Discussion

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1322/page9.html
African Religion

http://www.ongba.org.br/afro/orixas/orishas.html
Afro-America. A Religiao do Orixas no mundo
*links to other orisha sites

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1322/page11.html
Iansã is not St.Barbara - Ilé Axé Opô Afonjá
*interesting web site in Brazil

http://www.pathcom.com/~cancuba/eleggua.htm
Eleggua Project - Study in Cuba

http://www.primenet.com/~yoruba/
Yoruba house home page

http://www4.nando.net/prof/caribe/Dictionary.html
7 Orishas from the yoruba Pantheon

http://www.ifafoundation.org
Ifa Foundation - Neimark

http://www.historical-museum.org/exhibits/carib/carib.htm#Cuba
Caribbean percussion traditions in Miami

http://members.aol.com/racine125/index.html
home page of Mambo Racine Sans But - includes extensive series of
articles on Vodun - currently announcing Vodou initiation tour to
Haiti

http://members.aol.com/ishorst/love/Yoruba.html
Yoruba Religion

http://web.canlink.com/ocrt/voodoo.htm
The Vodun Religion

http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/african/
The African diaspora in Latin America - a list of links

http://www.agate.net:80/~ile/index.html
Ile Ife and The Arthur Hall Collection
wonderful photos of dance...

http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~grd3m/fetish.html#Deities
African Art

http://members.aol.com/starkana/olist.htm
Orisha Mailing list home page

http://members.aol.com/rickspirit/
Rick's Spiritual Botanica

http://www.yoruba.org/Magazine/Summer97/File3.htm
Wole Soyinka on Yoruba religion

http://www.voodoomuseum.com/
Home of Charles Gandolfo's Voodoo Museum in New Orleans.

http://www.voodoomuseum.com/ml.html
Brief biography of Marie Laveau, with a modern painting of her.

http://www.themagicalblend.com/catalog/books.html
Canadian site which has a nice list of african
spirituality books (some good, some great, some terrible)
commercial

http://www.historical-museum.org/exhibits/carib/carib.htm
Caribbean percussion traditions

http://www.afrocubaweb.com/ConFolNat.htm
Conjunto Folklorico Nacional (Cuba)

http://members.aol.com/YEMOO7/index.html
Homepage of Omi Saide - Priestess of Yemoja

http://www.wraithstone.com/~yemaya/
Denise's homepage
(not updated since she was a Iyawo - sorry)

http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~maryc/
Mary Ann's Home page

http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/african/
links to the African diaspora in Latin America

http://www.pitt.edu/~sasst33/SANTERIA/santeria.html
Stef's santeria links

These ancestor pages have an interesting "ancestral links" section:
African, Indigenous American, Asian, and East Indian, as well as a
digital art studio, and various articles/writings
http://www.sheps.com/ancestors/

http://www.sheps.com/ancestors/links/index.html

Umbanda:
http://www.marciobamberg.com.br/umbanda/

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6481/umbanda.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2777/

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5668/NAUS.html

Critique:
http://www.t0.or.at/0ntext/ldsanter.htm
Puerto Rican Santeria - Lily Diaz
*A structuralist analysis (academic)
and depending rather too heavily
on Wippler

http://www.tiac.net/users/bpantry/voodoo/songs.htm
Songs to goddesses - Yemaya, Aida Wedo etc.

This is not specifically orisha/loa, but for those interested in
various manifestations of the goddess (Yemaya. Oshun, Oya etc) in
other cultures and goddesses in general in Africa
you might want to check it out:

http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/1582/africang.html#aha
African Goddesses

http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/hermetic/cal_stud/lunarcal/lunarcal.htm

The Goddess Lunar calendar (Yemaya and Oya are two of the twenty five
goddesses)

http://www.shira.net/egypt-goddess.htm
the goddesses of Ancient Egypt

http://www.auser.org/Wisdom/black_madonnas.htm
interesting history of Isis and diffusion of "black madonnas" to
Europe