At The Pan Collective, Trinidadian Attillah Springer describes the Ifa ancestral ceremony held yesterday on the third anniversary of her grandmother's death. “We sang for her. Cooked her favourite foods. Cried a bit and missed her dry humour terribly. And in the end the Iya cast the obi. The offering is accepted [1].” And rain lilies blooming on his lawn remind Geoffrey Philp of the time his late father gave him a flower at his house in Jamaica. “The old devil laughed. And all I could do was laugh and tell him that I loved him [2].”
Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica: Remembering ancestors
· Written by Nicholas Laughlin
Categories: Caribbean, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Ethnicity & Race, History, Religion