Creepyweird coincidence
I'm reading the Circle of Three series by Isobel Bird (or, well, Michael Thomas Ford, truth be told). I'm on book number 10, Making the Saint. There's a LOT in there about Santeria, a religion that has always made me feel a little weirded out. Yes, I know there are a few of you involved with it on my flist; hear me out. It's not for everyone and it always makes me a little uncomfortable, but those are the things that we should learn to look at deeper, right? To find out why we're uncomfortable? Well, this book has a lot in it that's easing that feeling. At one point, one of the girls is given a necklace of Ogun made of black and green beads. Other color correspondences mentioned in the book were white and blue belonging to Yemaya and white and green belonging to Oya. I've had a necklace of blue and yellow for a long time, going on 15 years, that I got from a friend in Green Bay. I've never thought much about it. I liked it because my high school colors are blue and gold. I got to thinking about the colors in this book and did a little research. Yellow and blue belong to Ochossi. He's the patron of Justice and Hunters, and evidently gets prayed to when one is, among other things, searching for a job. He's a woodland god. His counterparts in the other pantheons are numerous and well known. The one that made me smile a lot?Pan.