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So, it's fucking Lent which I can't stand. The Orixá are off fighting the forces of evil, so it's a time when our terreiro works with our Egun and Exus/Pomba Giras. Apparently this is a Candomblé thing - it is a syncretic leftover from slavery, when (for lack of a better term, or maybe this is the best term) the Yoruba liturgical calendar was tweaked to fit the Catholic liturgical calendar - thus placing the Olorogun during the space of Lent. (I actually do not know too much about it, because I am bad at asking questions. Generally, someone says, "So we don't do this at this time" and I just say, "Okay," very matter-of-factly.)
Another fun fact I heard about Lent was via some TikTok on Twitter. (It didn't have a translation and my Portuguese is not all that great, so I wound up finding it on YouTube with closed captions and I would type the Portuguese captions into Google Translate.)
What Pai Leo is saying here is that Lent is the WORST spiritual period (I agree), but it has nothing to do with Catholicism - he says that it's a period of time when all the spiritual planes are in conjunction, so it's very easy for us to be influenced by negative energy. At any rate, it sucks just my imo. I am also in a bad mood. Mainly because it is Lent. Anyway it's almost over, alhamdulillah.
Lately I have been making recipes out of Anissa Helou's wonderful cookbook, Feast: Food of the Islamic World. I first read about her in an issue of Travel + Leisure that I swiped from Yovi's Hot Dogs (it really made me want to go to Oman until I realized the person who went and had a great time and wrote about it was a man and then I was like, Of course). She was talking about her quest to find camel meat, and it was so interesting, so I picked this up from the library in Pittsburgh and never made anything out of it. Now I am in Kentucky and I have no one to cook for except my very own self, oh well. Maybe those people I used to cook for should've been a little nicer, or a lot nicer.
So far I have made three or four recipes from this cookbook and it's been very nice and fun. My favorite so far is Umm Saeed's Balaleet, which is different from traditional balaleet, and also I have a good time saying the word "balaleeeEEEEET" like I am RuPaul saying "CameROOOOON"!
Here's what I have been into lately:
Well, that's all for now. Lent is almost over, so if you want to lay down some hexes, some curses, some jinxes, I heard that you can do all your black magic on Good Friday, because on Good Friday God looks the other way. That's the word on the street. Remember, no brujeria on Fridays, so you better make this one count.
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