Egg's Magical Cleansing

Egg's Magical Cleansing

A common practice from Latin America and the spiritual significance behind it.

We were the beginning of the 2000s, and the fashion for television astrologers was the topic of conversation every day, especially in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. We had Hermes Ramirez, Miguel Angel, Adriana Azzi, and the weekly visit of the famous Walter Mercado, who visited so often that there were already rumors that he had bought huge properties throughout Venezuela.

And these were just the most famous witches and astrologers in the mainstream and on the main television channels. At one point, we simultaneously had almost 200 different astrologers and witches on television. Suppose you grew up in Venezuela or Colombia. In that case, you will probably remember the famous show "De Que Vuelan, Vuelan," the name alludes to an old saying by the author, historian, and folklorist Oscar Yanez, who used to say, "I don't believe in witches, but we all know that they fly even if we don't believe in them."

Egg in water for divination, post-cleansing.

Photo from Diario El Universal.

A Common Practice

The rage of the day was egg cleanses, which during the 1990s was one of the most common and cheapest forms of spiritual cleanses in botanists across the country. You would visit the store and commonly find a red sign next to the entrance, with a bowl of eggs with ice in a glass jar. You would take an egg from the pot, and for approximately $4, The local witch held the egg and passed it around your body as if he were drawing circles in the air. In this way, the egg would absorb your negative energies and involuntarily remove any witchcraft, curse, or enchantment that you were holding on to your body.

Once the magical operation was finished, the local sorcerer would break the egg on the table's edge and empty it into a glass of water. A small cleaning ritual would become a whole divination session because they would see the egg move together. In the water and read the omens that it formed in the crystal glass.

The rules

There were a series of rules to follow whenever these magical operations were performed, for example;

~ The egg had to be chosen by the client and not by the witch. For this reason, they were exposed in a cold jar in full view and could only be touched by the client, the witch, and no one else.

~ The egg was chosen with the right hand, and cleaning was done with the left hand, never otherwise would damage the reading.

~ Cleaning was done from the top down and again from the bottom up. You never started and never finished at the top.

The popularity and the mainstream

Once these practices became common, it was no surprise to find TV presenters teaching how to do this on their morning shows. Still, we know that television time is limited and short, so they had to market it and boil it down to the basics, where the Astrologists pretty much just took an egg from the basket, poured it into a glass of water, burned some incense (unnecessary but visibly attractive... for no other purpose), and "read" the omens from the egg into the water.

After a few months, it was even more common to find all kinds of cleansing rituals using eggs in esoteric magazines and newspapers, each time in more summarized versions to fit in such a limited space. After some time, these also appeared in books where the author designated these practices to some origin... Asian? Once... Australian?, and sometimes... French?.

What was unknown

Just as there were rules that many were unaware of, there were also many old books and pamphlets of limited printing in botanical and esoteric shops, where they taught that these cleansing practices were not only one of the few forms of spiritual cleansing performed by mestizos descendants of enslaved people in different parts of South America, of which we have historical records.

These "mestizos" were primarily descendants of enslaved women and their enslavers. Therefore they were not subjected to the same norms of servitude. They enjoyed certain "limited freedoms," and, more importantly, they had access to academic texts. And teachers who would teach them to read and write and clean with egg had been written in detail and multiple times in various textbooks and journals that today are preserved in the National Library of Venezuela and the country's history museums.

Unlike the rest of the food, which was mostly of limited access for the enslaved people, the eggs were easy to hide in clothing or small cavities in a chicken coop, so the sorcerer could at any time of the day take this egg. New offer his life as a sacrifice to the spirits of his ancestors and deities, cleanse himself with it and throw it into the river to take away all curses and all guilt.

It was not until the year 1940 when, for the first time, an article in the national newspaper commented on "the forgotten practice" that the pregnant wives of the male enslavers carried out in secret, bringing the black sorcerers to their rooms so that they could guess the sex of the baby, what they expected, among other much more spiritual questions.

And it was not until 2006 that this practice began to be attributed to the priests of the Dahomey people who would take the eggs (sacred to Orisha; Obatala) as part of a critical cleansing ritual before the initiation ritual, a feature that today is not. It is part of the Yoruba or Lucumi initiation rites. Still, it is part of certain Candomble houses in Brazil.

With Love, Elhoim Leafar. Dowser. Tarotist. Spiritual Worker.

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