Seven African Powers oil 2 dram

The Seven Powers devotion. The seven orishas honored together.

2 dram bottle. The working size for dressing.

For candles and petitions. The devotion's classic anointing use.

• Contents: Seven African Powers condition oil, 2 drams
• Tradition: the Siete Potencias Africanas popular devotion of Santería, Lucumí, and Latin American folk practice
• For external and ritual use: dressing candles, petitions, and altar objects; do not ingest
• SKU: OSEVF

The Seven African Powers are seven orishas of the Yoruba-descended traditions honored as one protective assembly, most commonly Elegua, Obatala, Yemaya, Oshun, Chango, Ogun, and Orunmila, the grouping that arose in the Americas as a popular devotion open to petitioners at the tradition's threshold. The oil serves that devotion's classic material customs: dressing the seven-color candles sold under the same name, anointing petition papers, marking the altar's objects. We frame the tradition with the deference it is owed: the Seven Powers devotion is the open porch of a living initiatory religion, and the deeper protocols of orisha worship, the ceremonies, the offerings proper to each orisha, the priesthood itself, belong to Santería's and Lucumí's own initiates and elders, to be learned from them rather than from a product page. The oil grants nothing on its own, as we say plainly; it dresses the devotion's petitions, and the relationship with the Powers is built the way the tradition teaches: with respect, consistency, and its own community's guidance.

1. Dress Seven African Powers candles from base to wick with your petition spoken.
2. Anoint petition papers at the corners in the folk custom.
3. Seek the tradition's own teachers for anything deeper; that is the honest door.

• Santa Muerte Oil, 1 oz: the neighboring folk devotion's oil.
• Florida Water Cologne: the pan-tradition cleanser of the same shelf.
• Shango Incense Sticks by Sree Vani: incense honoring one of the seven.

Who are the Seven African Powers?

Seven orishas of the Yoruba-descended traditions honored together as a protective assembly, most commonly Elegua, Obatala, Yemaya, Oshun, Chango, Ogun, and Orunmila.

Do I need to be initiated to use it?

The Seven Powers devotion is the tradition's open popular practice; the deeper protocols of orisha worship belong to Santería's and Lucumí's own initiates and are learned from the tradition's elders, not a label.

How is it used?

The classic customs: dressing seven-color candles, anointing petitions, and marking altar objects, always externally.