THE GODDESS OF OCHUN MAY HAVE CHANGED
MY LIFE FOREVER
Santerismo is a religion originally born in Africa and now is very
popular in Cuba. I’m not religious or superstitious but I’d like to tell you
about my experience of Santerismo in Cuba, because it might have changed my
life forever.
I used to have a strange dream at times. It was always the same. When
I’m asleep, someone grabs my balls and squeeze them, then I scream with pain
and wake up. But I thought it was just a strange dream and didn’t mind much.
About a year ago, when I was in Mexico City preparing for my trip to Cuba, I
had yet another strange dream. When I was sleeping alone in my hotel room, I
sensed someone was standing beside me. Then it came upon my bed, lied down
beside me, and kissed me in my cheek. The kiss was as cold as ice, I shivered
and woke up. There was nobody. But it was so vivid that I could hardly tell it
was a dream. After this experience, I began to wonder if there was really
something, because I’d never had this kind of experience before.
When I was talking with a Cuban
friend of mine in Cienfiegos, Cuba, I found out that he was a pious believer of
this Santerismo. He had even had a ceremony to be a ‘Santo’ of Santerismo a few
months before. Then I remembered my strange experience in Mexico City and told
him about it. He recommended me to consult his ‘Padrino’, who can carry out
various Santerismo ceremonies. So one day I went to the house of his padrino
and had a consultation. The padrino was a calm man in his 40’s. He told me that
a spirit of woman was in love with me, and that ‘she’ interfered with my having
a stable relation with a woman (of this world). I talked a lot with him and I
liked him, so I asked him to perform two ceremonies for me according to his
recommendations, one is to separate this woman’s spirit from me, another is to
pray to Ochun (the Goddess of Love) so that I’d find a stable, long-lasting
love. Frankly speaking, I didn’t believe these ceremonies entirely, but I
decided to have them because I thought he was an honest man and he charged me
in Cuban pesos, not in dollars, the same prices he would to other Cubans. The
consultation fee was only 10 pesos (half a dollar), and each ceremony cost 10
to 15 dollars, including the costs of sacrifices. So I just thought it would be
an interesting experience to have those ceremonies, even if there were no
effects.
So he performed those ceremonies for me in separate occasions with some
helpers, sacrificing some pigeons and chickens each time. They did look quite
effective, but I didn’t feel any notable effects after that.
A few months later, I noticed that I hadn’t seen that dream since I had
this ceremony. The dream of someone squeezing my balls. And of course, that
spirit of a woman had never appeared beside my bed again. I wondered if the
ceremony was quite effective after all.
A few months later, I began to correspond with a young Russian woman via
e-mail, whom I knew through a web site on America Online. And everything
happened very fast. In less than two months, I went to Russia to see her. One
month later, we travelled together to Turkey, then she came to Japan with me.
Four months later, we married. (That’s just three months ago). Now I’m very
happy and content, being a husband of a beautiful, tenderhearted woman. I still
can’t believe that I found a woman like her through the internet. I think I was
just too lucky. Less than one year ago, I was just a lonely single man. Or was
it because of the Goddess of Ochun ?
Well, believe it or not, everything I wrote here is true. I write down
here the name and address of my padrino, so that someone interested can
actually see him and have a
consultation;
Rolando Barrueta Moreno, Calle 35
#4011-A, entre 40 y 42, Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Remember, many people who perform Santerismo
ceremonies in Cuba merely do them for money, and you’re likely to be
overcharged a lot as a foreigner, especially in Havana and Santiago. But
Rolando charged me in Cuban pesos, so the prices were very reasonable, even for
Cubans. He can even make your Gerrero for 60 dollars or so, which in Havana
usually costs more than 200 dollars.
I post this
article here in the hope that he will get some more customers, because I
believe he gave me a lot of happiness. When you meet him, tell him that you
knew him because of an article on the internet written by Momo, a Japanese guy
who visited him in March 2000. He will be glad and treat you like a friend.
(April 2001)