Brujería, Witchcraft, Ifá,

The hypocrisy has always fascinated me. 👀 When Indigenous, African, Afro-Caribbean, or other ancient spiritual traditions work with ancestors, bones, spirits, offerings, divination, candles, herbs, sacred objects, or the dead, suddenly people start screaming: “DEMONIC!” 😱 “WITCHCRAFT!” “EVIL!” “THAT’S THE DEVIL!” 👹 But put similar imagery, relics, incense, candles, ritual garments, sacred objects, prayers for the dead, and even HUMAN REMAINS inside a Christian religious context and suddenly it becomes: ✨ Sacred. ✨ Holy. ✨ Reverent. ✨ A connection to God. Interesting. 🤔 And before somebody misses the entire point, I’m not saying Christianity is evil because it has rituals, relics, or traditions involving the dead. I’m asking why you were taught that everybody ELSE was evil for having theirs. Different spiritual traditions have their own histories, cosmologies, spirits, ancestors, ceremonies, rules, and understandings of what is sacred. Maybe the uncomfortable conversation isn’t about whether these traditions are “demonic.” Maybe it’s about who got the authority to decide which people’s spirituality was called holy and which people’s spirituality was called evil. 👀 Because apparently the skull wasn’t the problem. It was who was holding it. 💀☕ #spiritualtiktok #religion