"Little" only by comparison to the creator. Not "little" in comparison to other gods or beings.

See, now THAT's all stuff I didn't know!

Thanks!

Normally when I say Our Gods, I am refering to the StarGoddess, the Peacock Lord, and what are refered to often as the limnescate deities, ie, the Triple Goddess, and the Triple God. Really though there are many more gods in Feri than are generally talked about. Since different lineages have different levels of secrecy that they have sworn to (ie the different teachers taught different things as being secret, some things not secret for me, are considered Oathbound for others) so we don't talk about them publically. The Gods of Feri seem to come from all over though, as Victor taught that the Feri folk were reasonably nomadic at first so they seemed to travel picking up things and dropping off others in various places. Partly because of this we don't always follow the lore of the place where a given deity may come from, ie we aren't generally very keen on the islamic/christian/jewish influences on the current Yezidi religion. More I think what it may come down to is that we share a god with them, but our lore on him is a bit different than theirs is. Victor claimed to have been visited by Yezidi at one point and they taught him, and I think gave him the cult of the Peacock Lord at that time. I am not really certain about it, but that is my theory about it.

I totally agree with you about the feel of the Palo Nkisi. The first time I visited my godfather for a reading he took me out to the Nganga room, had me sit right outside the room, (it was big enough to have the Ngangas, and him in it so clients sat right outside) I felt the spirits leap from the room, fly around me several times, then settle right in front of me, looking me directly in the eyes, then back up into the room so he could do the reading. It was really intense, but I never felt like they were trying to menace me, just checking me out.

I think I have only ever seen Oshun ticked off, but it was twice and the same Oshun as well. Once was at me, and it was nearly the end of my involvement with Santeria, but right afterwards I dreamed of my Godmother's Godfather whom I had never met in person, he passed away just as I was meeting her. He told me directly that I was going nowhere, that I was part of his family and it didn't matter what an Oshun from another branch (ramo) said, I was in his family and the Orisha love me here. And I have always been treated as sweetly and gently as can be by my godmother's Oshun. So I stayed. Padrino Arabi is an incredible priest, living or dead.

That has been my experience with them, well that and much more.... but that should probably be for another tribe...heh