Sacred Tobacco

 (EL CAMINO DE LA TOABEY)

Sacred Tobacco

(Wisdom and Tobacco Song of the Old Caribbean, u T'anin Can Yum = K'ay Yum)

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes

The Sacred Tobacco is one of the four Sacred plants of the Red Path = Tobacco- Sage- Sweetgrass and Cedar.

Sacred plant in the center of the medicinal circle, preferred by the Spirit of the Eagle.

At the Center of Everything for the brothers of the Red Way is the Great Spirit = Wakan Tanka-Center and 'everywhere' within us.

Everything is Sacred and the sacred Offering of blessed tobacco unites us between its floral aroma of tobacco with the favorite essence of the Great Mystery Power... The Guakán.

Smoke from the JAGUAR BÖ!

Healing and sacred plant used by our Ancestors of the Native Peoples as a highly medicinal and healing plant.

It is a sacred Offering and a smell worthy of smoke-sacred winds- that go towards Heaven=Yum=bli- Caan, in the form of the Sacred semi-bluish and undulating winds.

One must learn to carefully 'read' the emissions of the Tobacco Smoke of beings.

For the brothers of the desert of Cahuilla=California Peninsula it is known under the name of Pivat=''breath of the Creator'' and healing tool in their Ceremonies.

Among the Old Jaguars=BO of the Caribbean it was used as both an internal and external remedy.

Its healing properties are truly wonderful.

But it is not easy to use and currently "few" know its proper and exact MEDICINE and the correct way to wisely use its enormous Power.

The Sacred Pipe of our Ancestors or the Elder-Grandfather Jaguar who smokes is the ritual motif indicating that the Priest Báalam-Jaguar = Bó, has consumed the sacrament and emits the Song of the Plant.

You must Offer, = not ask to the Spirit of Tobacco to bestow your Song upon you.

We do not ask.

We give thanks!'

The Sacred Pipe Ceremony (Canupa = Cha = wood, Nu = two, pa = Head = Two-Headed Wood = Two-Headed Serpent = Chan-nu-pa).

The sacred tobacco has among its most applicable properties; enormous enmity against all kinds of vermin—astral and physical—and insects and animals.

Among Lakota doctors, Tobacco cannot be missing from their medicinal bag of the Pipa or Cante Juha.

''Kola, lecel ecun Wo''=Friend, do it this way.

Tobacco is Tsik ba'al-Uy-Ik.

Listen to Chi' lam Bó Báalam Zac Uinic.

Jaguar Smoke Tradition of:

Haj-T''aan of Ahaw-Balum U-Kix-Chan.

Essence and Aroma favorite of the Wayob'. Nojoch -uch- Winik.

It can be applied on green leaves as an exterior and interior remedy.

As a smoker it is excellent for cleanses and purifications of all kinds.

Sedative and contains careful vomiting properties.

The brilliant Quevedo postulates, on the Tobacco effect brought to Europe by the Iberian peninsulars:

(''... they had done more harm by bringing the powder and the smoke here than the Catholic King did to Columbus and Cortés.'' Something very debatable but interesting.

It was used by the Native Peoples as a Gift from Heaven, for the wonderful properties of the same Spirit of Tobacco = (Nicotiana tabacum L. (tobacco) and =Nicotiana rustica L.).

During the time of the arrival of European adventurers to the Caribbean, during the sixteenth century, the first thing they gave Columbus -in his Diary-, was rolled tobacco as an unequivocal representation of Mutual Respect.

Something that, as we all know, was only from one party.

Throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the plant was all the rage in Europe, especially in England.

Historians describe that tobacco arrived in England from Virginia promoted by the eternal lover Sir Walter Raleigh.

It is suggested that when he arrives at the Court smoking the tobacco pipe, a servant believes that he is breathing fire from his mouth and throws him with a bucket of water.

''And course Sir Walter Raleigh such a Stupid Get.''

(The Beatles, I'm so Tired)

Medical Panacea: used in powder, crushed and mixed in a 'judicious' way with certain hallucinogenic plants, it is the safe ''otherness''. Mysterious and Sacred.

It is useful for the Tewa Brothers, and in their tobacco smoking ceremony; Sóxwá = is similar to clouds of = rain, fog, drops and sacred winds.

Among the strong Ceremonies of the Cherokees, Tobacco, when used, empowers itself, through ritual and theurgy with the appropriate song of Tobacco.

''The main factor in 'remaking' tobacco is the saying (or thinking) or sinning of a text over it; for these transfers the creative thought to the inert herb.''

(Jack Frederick, Kilpatrich, 1976b: Run tow the Nightland: Magic of The Oklahoma Cherokees; Smithsonian Contibutions)

The powerful Lakota Medicine is assisted by the ''Tobacco Tying Ceremony''=Canli Wapatha. Canli = Tobacco.

It is pronounced- chahn lí.

This important tobacco ceremony and Offering=Prayer=Cekiye to the four Directions of Heaven.

''A small pinch of tobacco is placed in the square of cotton as One Says Prayers.''

(Lakota Chief: Leonard Curley-Wicaphi Wanjila- personal communication)

''Tunkasila, Onci Malaye = Grandfather Have pity on me; I want to live.

Fray Diego de Landa's description of the Mayan Baptism Ceremony is significant=

''... after this the other assistants of the priest went with a bunch of flowers and a Humazo that they use to suck, and they threatened each of them nine times to each boy and then they gave them to smell flowers and to suck the Smoke".

(Fray Diego de Landa, Realación de Las Cosas de Yucatán, XXVI, Manera de Bautismo en Yucatán)

Its therapeutic purposes and knowledge as an oil and amulet was known for its incomparable salutary properties.

The wise Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, argues about the fundamental role of Picíetl = Tobacco to hunt snakes and...

''With the ground powder of Picietl he gets drunk and drowsy.''

"The medicine against snake bites is to then suck the place where you bite... and bring the bite to the fire, heating it with ground spice."

(Sahagún, Historia General de Las Cosas de Nueva España, Book XI, p.p., 651-654)

There are suitable uses of tobacco in a sacred way in liquid brews to eliminate parasites and, as a "vomitive" insurance, to "get out" certain unpleasant "substances".

Those that are retained by people settling inside them, adversely affecting many of them.

Its juice is gently warmed for bad breath, cupping, cataracts, and urine retention.

Very useful in oil and as a therapeutic preparation, it is used in poultice and sobo.

Through efficient and appropriate cleanses with its smoke it is possible to purify certain dense energy fields and all kinds of "energy parasites", close to the energy field of each one.

''Light Tobacco in front of a person and observe their reaction''

You can read their behavior in the face of smoke and its smell.

If you dislike it... there is something in him or her Eye.

The use and exploitation of the plant is general.

The whole plant has a unique purpose and utility to heal.

Whether in powder, liquid, crushed and smoke blows.

Mascado is extremely efficient against certain and detected stomach complications.

"Hot tobacco is the third degree, it is used to cure infinite diseases applied in green leaf, dried powder, smoke, cooked and in other ways.

A bag of tobacco is placed on the head or on the pillow, it causes sleep.

He has great enmity against wild beasts and terrible vermin; so, when the Indians sleep at night in parts where there are, they put this grass around them, so that no poisonous animal can start them."

(Fr. Bernabé Cobo, Jesuit Order - History of the New World, XVI, published in 1890; Volume I)

The chronicler Fray Mendieta points out that the plant was even used to release sins or to receive communion chewed or absorbed by the participant.

Here in the Insular Caribbean the Old Bó Grandparents cultivate the plant and it is used in all kinds of sacred ceremonies.

Oviedo refers to it as: ''very holy thing''.

As can be seen, the Sacred Tobacco is a Major Plant of Great Sacredness and Respect.

It has an exclusive use to help give birth and accommodate painful and diseased uteruses.

It heals ills of all kinds....

SACRO Tobacco

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes