Baron Samedi

Divine Judge and invoked for cases of infertility

Baron Samedi is one of the Guédé, a loa of the dead, along with Baron's other incarnations Baron Cimetière, and Baron La Croix. He is the head of the family of ancestral loa. As Master of the Cemetary and guardian of ancestral knowledge, Baron Samedi is typically depicted as if ready to be buried Haitian style with a top hat, black tuxedo, dark glasses, and cotton plugs in the nostrils. He has a white, mostly skull-like face and speaks with a nasal tone of voice.  His wife is the loa Maman Brigitte. Baron Samedi stands at the crossroads, where the souls of dead humans pass on their way to Guinee. As well as being the all-knowing loa of death, he is a sexual loa, frequently represented by phallic symbols and noted for disruption, obscenity, debauchery, and having a particular fondness for tobacco and rum. Additionally, he is the loa of sex and resurrection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Samedi).

Baron Samedi is the ultimate suave and sophisticated spirit of Death - quite cultured and debonair. He has an existential philosophy about death, finding death's reason for being both humorous and absurd. Baron Samedi is the extreme expression of individuality, and offers to you the reminder of delighting in life's pleasures. Live happy and live well, for even the most rich and talented, or the most poor and resourceful people are not spared the ultimate universal experience - Death.

To invoke Baron Samedi, sing:

(Haitian Creole)
O kwa, o jibile (repeat)
Ou pa we m inosan?

(English)
Oh, cross! Oh, jubilee!
Don't you see I'm innocent?

The Baron's ceremonial foods included grilled peanuts, black coffee, and bread. One of his favorite drinks is rum in which 21 hot peppers has been steeped (http://members.aol.com/racine125/vleson2.html#part2a).  The first burial of a man in any cemetary in Haiti is dedicated to Baron Samedi.

Details: Measures approximately 8 inches tall, wears a purple tuxedo, top hat, bow tie, ruffled shirt, and a cross necklace. He is smoking a cigar, holds a cane, and his face is hand sculpted out of polymer clay.

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