OBATALA LINDE
Obatala Linde or Batala Belinde is synchrenized with Nuestra Señora de Lourdes. She is an ancient Lwa of the Nago Nation, although many concider this aspect a part of the La Raiz Division, or Indian Division. She is a Misterio or Orisha of purity, cleanliness, all that is white, and is concidered the patroness of Albinos, thus the white race. She is said to have been the first black woman to have given birth to a white child, the first white person on the earth. In Sance this white child, is known as Gran Solier.
Obatala Belinde is the feminine aspect of the Nago Spirits "Orisha" known as Obatala, who is the protector of the head, the brain and bones, in Brazil Obatala is known as Oxala.
In Haitian Vodoun "Vodou" she is known as Aida Wedo, or Ayida Guedo, a Petro Loa whose name in Spanish is Aida Gueso, who is the wife of Dambala and mother to the Simbi Nation.
Other vueltas are Ofelia Balendjo who is synchrenized with Nuestra Señora de la Merced, and some call her Ofelia Mercedes after an ancestral Dominican some say Haitian Mama Mambo who was a priestess of Aida Wedo. Ofelia Balendjo is the sister of Ogun Balendjo and daughter of the Nago Loa others say vuelta of Mambo Lemiye. Another popular vuelta is Amalia Belcan, also known as Amalia Domingo, and this vuelta is synchrenized with La Milagrosa. In this aspect she is part of the Ogun family of Loases known as the Belecou or Belekou which is known in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico as the Belcanes. In this vuelta, Amalia Belcan is the mother of Belie Belcan.
Obatala Be Linde is the mother of the Loa known as Gran Ogou Batala, or Ogun Batala, a younger, often carefree and less wiser aspect of the ancient Obatala.
Offerings to Obatala Be Linde include, white candles, white flowers, white hard boiled eggs, coconut meat, coconut milk, merengue creams, vanilla cake with merengue frosting, white rice with milk, rice pudding, marshmallows. She does not drink any form of liquor.
Lourdes = Gran Be Linde
La Merced = Ofelia Banedjo
La Milagrosa = Amalia Belcan
La Merced = Ofelia Banedjo
La Milagrosa = Amalia Belcan
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