Exu, Divine Trickster and Master Magician [Paperback]

Denise Alvarado (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 13, 2010

Perhaps more so today than ever before, people are simultaneously searching for meaning in their lives and grasping for some sort of control over their futures. It should come as no surprise that many look to magick as a means of gaining this control. Exú is a powerful spirit who functions as Divine Messenger and Gatekeeper to the Spirit World. He sits at the Crossroads offering choices and possibilities to humankind. Exú represents balance: day and night, old age and youth, black and white, construction and destruction. He encompasses male sexuality, strength and fertility, and is privy to the mysteries of life and death. Exú is the lord of chaos and trickery, and the keeper of the life force. Nothing can be accomplished in the human world or the spirit world without the permission of Exú. He is the one that has the power to break tradition, to question the rules, to breach the norm, and to promote change. He embodies the essence of all of the Orishas and his power is immeasurable. Without Exú, none of the Orishas can manifest their power. Exú, Divine Trickster and Master Magician is one of Planet Voodoo's Applied Magick Handbook Series. It was written for the uninitiated and is meant to assist the reader in understanding the complex deity and related family of deities known as Exú.

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About the Author

Denise Alvarado was born and raised in the Voodoo and hoodoo rich culture of New Orleans. She has studied mysticism and practiced Creole Voodoo and indigenous healing traditions for over three decades. Her talks, seminars, and coaching on cultural healing traditions and the magickal arts have helped thousands of people around the globe market their businesses successfully and improve their lives exponentially. She is the author of several books, including "The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook" and "Voodoo Dolls in Magick and Ritual." She is a cultural anthropologist, psychologist, writer, artist, spiritual adviser, and cultural consultant.

Product Details

• Paperback: 60 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (April 13, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1451582692
• ISBN-13: 978-1451582697
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Denise Alvarado (1960) is a New Orleans born, native Creole raised in the Voodoo and hoodoo rich culture of New Orleans, Louisiana. She has studied indigenous healing traditions from a personal, professional and academic perspective for over four decades. Her self-published "The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook" has done so well that she recently joined the largest publisher of occult books, Weiser and Conari Press, for a revision and expansion of that work to be released in November 2011. Her provocative artwork has been featured on National Geographic's Taboo, as well as in several books by other authors. In addition, her seminars and coaching on cultural fluency and the magickal arts have helped thousands of people around the globe market their businesses successfully and improve their lives exponentially. She is a rootworker in the New Orleans Voodoo hoodoo tradition, a medicine woman in the Native American tradition, a cultural psychologist, ritual artist, spiritual adviser, and consultant. To see her online gallery of spiritual and ritual art, please visit, www.mysticvoodoo.com. To purchase her line of authentic hoodoo ritual products, Voodoo Mama's Hoodoo Oils, Potions and Gris Gris, or to inquire about other services, please visit www.planetvoodoo.com. To view her cutting edge research on Native American psychology and quality of life please visit www.nativeamericanwellness.com.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sarava exu, August 28, 2010

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excellent book, great price. i would recommend this book to anyone interested in working with the spirits of the crossroads in the afro-diasporic traditions, especially to anyone who wants to get started in kimbanda/quimbanda, as the information contained draws heavily from the brazilian forms, as well as anyone interested in the congo-bantu religions in the new world. also, for practicioners of hoodoo, it sheds alot of light on "going down to the crossroads", as hoodoo and kimbanda both have their respective roots in the congolese powers.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars very bad copy & paste job, October 15, 2011

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Kalfu (Savannah, Georgia) - See all my reviews

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I have no idea what book the other reviewers have read, but this is probably the worse Copy & Paste job in the history of publishing! The author has found bits and pieces of information in various places on the internet and books and has mixed everything together without showing any understanding of the matter! Vodou, Candomble, Umbanda, Kimbanda and Lukumi are all mixed together with a bit of traditional Nigerian Ifa religion scattered around the book. Names and attributes of the various spirits she mentions are wrong, songs are translated badly and the whole book is a cheap rip-off! The only bits of information that seam to come from the author are misleading and misguided. Particularly the information from Candomble and Kimbanda is totally wrong! Looking at the information she has in this book, I doubt this woman has ever spoken to either a Candomble priest or anyone initiated in Umbanda or Kimbanda. Even 1 star is too much for this book!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great little book!!!, March 19, 2011

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Mikki McCoy (Montgomery, Al) - See all my reviews
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While this book is small, it is jam packed with a ton of info. It gets straight to the point, with no BSing. I've personally not seen so much info on Exú in one area so far.
As with her other books, this one will not disappoint.