Devoted to Death

Devoted to Death

Author: R. Andrew Chesnut

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-09-06

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0190633352

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R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the past decade. Although condemned by mainstream churches, this folk saint's supernatural powers appeal to millions of Latin Americans and immigrants in the U.S. Devotees believe the Bony Lady (as she is affectionately called) to be the fastest and most effective miracle worker, and as such, her statuettes and paraphernalia now outsell those of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Saint Jude, two other giants of Mexican religiosity. In particular, Chesnut shows Santa Muerte has become the patron saint of drug traffickers, playing an important role as protector of peddlers of crystal meth and marijuana; DEA agents and Mexican police often find her altars in the safe houses of drug smugglers. Yet Saint Death plays other important roles: she is a supernatural healer, love doctor, money-maker, lawyer, and angel of death. She has become without doubt one of the most popular and powerful saints on both the Mexican and American religious landscapes.


Santa Muerte

Santa Muerte

Author: Tracey Rollin

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2017-10-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1633410609

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Santa Muerte is a complete ritual guide to working with this famous and beloved Mexican folk saint. Death welcomes everyone. This is the foundation for the veneration of Santa Muerte, or "Holy Death." Considered to be the female personification of death, she is associated with protection and safe passage to the afterlife. She is also the patron saint of people who live on the fringes of society and often face violence and death. In recent years her constituency has expanded to include the LGBT community and people who are marginalized or whose jobs put them at significant risk of death such as military and police personnel. Santa Muerte is hailed as their potent and powerful protector, capable of delivering them from harm and even granting miracles. Santa Muerte is a complete ritual guide to working with this famous--and infamous!--Mexican folk saint. It takes us beyond the sensational headlines to reveal the truth about why Santa Muerte is so beloved by so many. Author Tracey Rollin presents simple, straightforward methods for working with Holy Death that may be used alone or easily incorporated into your own magical practice.


Santa Muerte

Santa Muerte

Author: Warlock Asylum

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-18

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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The Mexican folk saint adorably known as Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Our Lady of the Holy Death) has become the object of a growing spiritual tradition and global movement. The mysteries and devotional practices that constitute the fabric of Santa Muerte's legacy run as deep as its indigenous origins. Although the worship of Santa Muerte has been condemned by the Catholic Church and other clergies, it has become an intrinsic part of Mexican culture. Today, people from all walks of life and religious paradigms have found prosperity under the cloak of Holy Death's protection and miraculous gifts of loving-kindness. Santa Muerte: The Gnostic Bible of Holy Death reveals the unknown beginnings and deeply rooted alchemical principles that are embedded in the veneration of La Santisima Muerte. The science of Holy Death has ancient roots and a profound cosmology that is an important part of understanding Santa Muerte's gnosis. This text includes an English rendering of the "Gospel of Santa Muerte" and additional esoteric and ritual practices are included.


Grimoire of Santa Muerte

Grimoire of Santa Muerte

Author: Sophia DiGregorio

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07-13

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780615827469

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The Grimoire of Santa Muerte is an introductory manual for devotees of Most Holy Death, the powerful folk saint of Mexico who has drawn the wrath of both the church and state. Santa Muerte has millions of devotees and the numbers are growing all over the world! To those devoted to her, she is their friend, a spiritual mother and the source of unconditional love and protection from whom all of the necessities of life flow. She is an advocate, a healer and the performer of miracles. Santa Muerte is the patron saint of those who have confronted death and lived and those who must confront deadly situations every day. She is a spirit of second chances who avenges those who are devoted to her and punishes evil-doers. She is a godmother who guides those under her care and arranges things in much the way a benevolent and powerful living benefactor might. This book shows you how to connect with Santa Muerte and includes information about how to construct an altar for her, how to consecrate items, how to pray the Rosary of Santa Muerte and provides prayers, spells and rituals for a variety of purposes.


Every Moment Holy, Volume Two

Every Moment Holy, Volume Two

Author: Douglas Kaine McKelvey

Publisher: Every Moment Holy

Published: 2021-02-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781951872052

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EVERY MOMENT HOLY, Vol. 2: DEATH, GRIEF, & HOPE, is a book of liturgies for seasons of dying and grieving--liturgies such as "A Liturgy for the Scattering of Ashes" or "A Liturgy for the Loss of a Spouse" or "A Liturgy for the Wake of a National Tragedy" or "A Liturgy for the Weighing of Last-Stage Medical Options." These are ways of reminding us that our lives are shot through with sacred purpose and eternal hopes even when, especially when, suffering and pain threaten to overwhelm us. -over 100 liturgies for seasons of dying and grieving -beautiful leather-bound hardcover -over 20 illustrations by Ned Bustard -silk bookmark -gilded edges


Book of Prayers Santa Muerte

Book of Prayers Santa Muerte

Author: Max Ivanova

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13:

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Dear reader, if you are a follower of Santa Muerte or want to start in this ancient cult, this book cannot be missing from your library! expand your knowledge and learn the most powerful prayers used by your worshipers, wizards and Mexican sorcerers. In this book you will learn the origin of this cult, how to make pacts and a recipe book with the most powerful prayers and spells for: Fortune, love, freeing yourself from jail, protection, health and even the destruction of your enemies, among others. ! Participate in the great power of the "Santisima Muerte" fulfill your most intimate desires, let her work in your life and open the doors to success and happiness!


Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America

Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America

Author: Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2018-01-20

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781349560769

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In this provocative book, Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines untamed feminine divinities from around the world. Although distant geographically, these divine figures are surprisingly similar-representing concepts of liminality, outsiderhood, and structural inferiority, embodied in the divine feminine. These strong, independent, unrestrained figures are connected to the periphery and to magical powers, including power over sexuality, transformation, and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba offers a study of the origin and worship of four feminine deities across cultures and continents: the Slavic Baba Yaga, the Hindu Kālī, the Brazilian Pombagira, and the Mexican Santa Muerte. Although these divinities have often been marginalized through dismissal, demonization, and dulcification, they continue to be extremely attractive, as they empower their devotees confronting them with the ultimate reality of transience and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines how these sacred icons have been adapted and transformed across time and place.


La Santa Muerte in Mexico

La Santa Muerte in Mexico

Author: Wil G. Pansters

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2019-09

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0826360815

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This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in people's daily lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with illicit activities.


Grimoire of Santa Muerte, Vol. 2

Grimoire of Santa Muerte, Vol. 2

Author: Sophia diGregorio

Publisher:

Published: 2016-07-25

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780692739099

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Santa Muerte is rising in popularity. With millions of devotees in Mexico, the U.S., and throughout the world and growing, devotion to Most Holy Death may be the biggest underground spiritual movement in the world. She is denounced by religious and governmental authorities. Yet, everywhere they have failed, she succeeds! This volume takes up where the first one leaves off by providing a deeper exploration of Santa Muerte's vast powers and includes the author's own secrets of working with her. It discusses altars, talismans, and images as generators, accumulators, and transmitters of Santa Muerte's power and how to direct the energy of the altar and its components. It provides potentially life-transforming rituals and prayers to Santa Muerte for transcendent experiences associated with traditional witchcraft. It includes meditations, talismans, prayers, and rituals regarding Santa Muerte's best known offices and powers and: Psychic abilities Divination skills Communication with ancestral and other spirits Energy transference Astral and etheric projection Transmogrification Weather control Santa Muerte is a very potent, primordial spirit of the Underworld whose purpose on earth is to help anyone who asks. She has many offices and aspects and is much more powerful, versatile and reliable than any other saint. Where other saints or spirits fail, Santa Muerte consistently achieves fast, reliable results on behalf of her devoted children, which is why she is so very much loved and venerated by those who have experienced her power. Devotion to Santa Muerte not about faith or belief, it's about your own personal experience with this ancient spirit. Learn more about the lifestyle of the Santa Muerte devotee and gain the knowledge and power to control your own life. Expand your knowledge of the art and occult science of witchcraft. Join the millions who have experienced Santa Muerte's power for themselves!


Death in Holy Orders

Death in Holy Orders

Author: P. D. James

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0571247016

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Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of coast in East Anglia, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, secrets and mystery as the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder . . . 'Thoroughly gripping.' Guardian 'Pure pleasure.' Spectator