The Significance of Talismans in Holy Death Beliefs

Talismans of the holy death are objects that are believed to possess magical or spiritual powers and bring protection and good luck to those who possess them. These talismans are commonly associated with the cult of the Santa Muerte, a religious movement that worships a female folk saint in Mexico and certain parts of the United States. The Santa Muerte, also known as the Holy Death, is believed to possess the ability to grant wishes, protect against evil, and bring good fortune. Her followers believe that by possessing a talisman associated with her, they can harness her powers and benefit from her blessings. There are various types of talismans associated with the Santa Muerte, each with its own specific characteristics and uses. Some of the most common talismans include statues or figurines of the Santa Muerte, which are often dressed in different colors symbolizing different aspects of life, such as love, money, health, or protection.

Black is for total protection from enemies, hexing and revenge, and protection from the Evil Eye

Three Our Fathers NOVENO DIA Muerte Protectora Y Bendita Por la virtud que Dios te dio quero que me libres de todos los maleficios y peligros y enferme- dades y que en cambio me des SUERTE, SALUD, FELICIDAD Y DINERO, que me des amigos y me libres de mis enemigos haciendo tambien que fulano. My Beautiful Bony Lady I call upon you, before thee I stand, I humbly ask that you grant me Mercy, Keep me free from sickness evil, and protect all that I love.

Some of the most common talismans include statues or figurines of the Santa Muerte, which are often dressed in different colors symbolizing different aspects of life, such as love, money, health, or protection. These statues are commonly used in home altars or carried on the person as a form of protection. Other talismans associated with the Santa Muerte include images or pictures of the saint, which are often placed in a small pocket or carried in a wallet.

SANTISIMA MUERTE

I first met La Santisima Muerte -- "The Most Holy Death" -- in Austin Texas, down at Cantu's Herbaria. I saw a row of statues of what seemed to be a typical European "Grim Reaper" rather unexpectedly holding a balanced pair of scales and standing with one foot upon a stylized Aztec skull. Underneath the figure, when i picked up a statue, i could see an assortment of embedded lucky charms: lucky Abrus precatorius red "beans", grains of wheat, and a lucky trunk-up elephant. Another statue had a cross of Carava charm, some rice, and a pinch of magnetic sand inside.

I was intrigued by the lucky charms encased within what seemed to be a dire and forboding figure, and so i asked who "he" was, but i was quickly corrected: La Santisima Muerte is a SHE. I was then given a long story of how she keeps men faithful to their wives and will judge and kill men who violate the sanctity of marriage if called upon to do so, because her husband was unfaithful to her, causing her to commit suicide, and to hate and punish all unfaithful men.

The shop owner, Mrs. Cantu, even took me in a corner, away from my husband and taught me how you perform a seven-knot spell for La Santisima Muerte -- it's virtually identical to the hoodoo nine knot spell for a Nation Sack, but you keep the knotted string that has been smeared with semen tied around her statue, for safe-keeping. The statue is actually designed with a groove around the base to accept the wound-up string. After that, she gave me a Santisima Muerte holy medal as a gift and told me with smiling eyes to not let my husband see it.

Later, down in San Jose, California, at Dos Aguas Botanica, where i bought my first statuette of Santisima Muerte, i was told that "women perform a novena to her to keep men faithful."

And in Sebastopol, California, at the Flea Market, where i first encountered her image on a novena booklet, i asked the old woman selling it, in my broken ugly Spanish: "La Santisima Muerte -- la razon por la que? [gesture of praying hands] Por que . oracion?" -- and she replied, "Matrimonio" -- marriage.

So who was this Holy Death? Where did she come from? Why does she judge men and protect women's marriages?

One occult shop owner without much knowledge of Mexican folk culture loftily explained to me that she is "The Angel of Death," a European or Judeo-Christian concept that accounted for her skeletal visage, but certainly did not explain why Mexican gardeners were gravely showing me the Santisima Muerte holy cards in their wallets and telling me that "She is The Virgin Mary as a skeleton" -- which itself begged the question -- "Why on earth would folks want to depict the Virgin Mary as a skeleton in the first place?"

Eventually i ran into the true story, as least as scholars of Mexican culture present it these days: La Santisima Muerte is a "banned saint," the Roman Catholic "cover" for an ancient Aztec goddess named Mictecacihuatl, a death goddess and co-ruler, with her husband, of the underworld.

Mictecacihuatl, the wife of the Aztec death god Mictlantecuhtli, is the sister to the Aztec heavenly goddess Tonantzin, who has been syncretized with the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe. That's why Mictecacihuatl became "Most Holy Death, The Virgin Mary as a Skeleton."

As to the idea that this goddess was a living woman who committed suicide when her husband proved unfaithful, i am not so sure. I consider the stories of her death and subsequent haunting of the living to be similar to, or influenced by, the folk tales of La Llorona, the weeping woman who mourns for her dead children, and who is a cautionary popular figure along the Texas, Arizona, and California border. In other words, the goddess is thus demoted to the status of a ghost.

Here is a nine-day cycle of prayers to Santisima Muerte, taken from a Mexican Novena booklet. It begins with a separate prayer to the string that has been covered with the semen of the beloved and knotted with seven knots. This "Ejaculatory" prayer is recited as the string is wound around into the groove in the base of the statue. Following this, the oration for the "First Day" is to be recited. This "First Day" of the spell should be a Sunday, for reasons that will become apparent later within the text.

NOVENA HOLY DEATH PRAYER For all the days.

NOVENA SANTA MUERTE ORACION Para todos los dias. EJACULATORY Death, dear to my heart, don't abandon me, protect me, and don't let ____name____ have one moment of peace; keep him restless and bothered with the thought of me always. (*Say Three Our Fathers*) JACULATORIA Muerte querida de mi corazon no me desampares de tu proteccion, y no dejes que fulano. un solo momento tranquilo, molestalo a cada inquietarlo para que siempre piense en mi. (*Se resan 3 Padres Nuestros*) FIRST DAY Most Holy Death The favours that you have to grant me: Make me overcome all difficulties so that for me nothing is impossible, no obstacles, barriers, no enemies, that no one does me any harm, that everyone is my friend and that I am victorious in all my dealings and things I do; May my house be filled with all the good virtues of your protection. (*Three Our Fathers*) PRIMER DIA Muerte Santisima: Los favores que me tienes que conceder: Haras que venza todas las dificultades y que para mi no halla nada imposible, ni obstaculos, infranqueables, ni tenga enemigos, ni que nadie quiera hacerme dano, que todos sean mis amigos y que yo salga vencedor en todas las empresas o cosas que haga; Mi casa se llenara de bienes con las virtudes de tu proteccion. (*Tres Padres Nuestros*) SECOND DAY Death Saint, my great treasure, never go away from me at any time: You ate bread and gave me bread, and as you are the powerful owner of the dark mansion of life and Empress of darkness, I want you to grant me the favour that ___name___ is at my feet humiliated and repentant and that he never leaves my side when I need him, and that you make me get what was promised to me. (*Three Our Fathers*) SEGUNDO DIA Muerte Santa, mi gran tesoro, no te apartes en ninguna ocacion: Pan comiste y de el me diste, y como eres la poderosa duena de la oscura mansion de la vida y la Emperatriz de las tinieblas, quiero que me hagas el favor de que fulano. se presente a mis pies humiliado y arrepentido y que nunca mas vuelva a irse de mi lado, mientras yo lo necesite. Y has que me cumpla lo que me ha prometido. (*Tres Padres Nuestros*) THIRD DAY Jesus Christ Conqueror who on the cross was conquered, conquer ____name____ that he is overcome by me. In the name of God, you are a ferocious animal; you will come back to me as a tame sheep, mild as the Rosemary flower. Adored Death, I implore you earnestly that with this titanic force that God gave you, instill in ____name's____ heart that he has eyes for no one but me, and that I am his everything, that you grant me this which I ask, having great faith in this Novena, and I light a candle every Tuesday of every week at twelve midnight. (*Three Our Fathers*) TERCER DIA Jesucristo vencedor que en la cruz fuiste vencido, vence a fulano. que este vencido conmigo. En el nombre del Senor si eres animal feroz, te volveras manso como cordero suave como la flor de romero. Muerte adorada: Te suplico encarecidamente que con esa fuerza titanica que Dios te dio me intro- duscas en el corazon de fulano. que no tenga ojos, mas que para mi, ye que yo sea todo para el, hazme el favor que te pido con mucha fe en esta Novena, ye te pren- dere una vela todos las martes de cada semana a las doce de la noche. (*Tres Padres Nuestros*) FOURTH DAY Dear Death: I ask you with all my heart, that as God made you Immortal, and the powerful owner and Queen of the Darkness Unknown hereafter, that with your great powers, which you have over all mortals, make ____name____ unable to eat at any table or sit in any chair and grant that he has no peace; I wish that he becomes obliged to be humble and devoted at my feet and that he never again goes away from me. (*Three Our Fathers*) CUARTO DIA Muerte querida: Yo te pido con todas las fuerzas de mi corazon, que asi como Dios te formo Inmortal, ye poderosa duena y Reina de las tinieblas del mas alla, que con ese gran poder que tienes sobre todos los mortales, hagas que fulano. no pueda en mesa corner, ni en silla sentarse, ni tranquilidad tenga, deseo que lo obligues a que humilde y rendido venga a mis pies y que nunca jamas se aleje de mi. (*Tres Padres Nuestros*) FIFTH DAY Glorious and Powerful Death, taking advantage of your kindness, as my protector and owner, I ask this favour: As the invicible madam that you are, I beg that you make ____name____ so that he can't enjoy strolling around, so hat he can't walk or eat with other women, or sleep unless he's at my side. Grant that his thoughts are about me only, by his own choice, and that he gives me the happiness of having all of his love. (*Three Our Fathers*) QUINTO DIA Gloriosa Y Poderosa Muerte: Abusando de tu bondad, como mi proctetora y duena te pido este favor: Como senora invencible que eres te ruego que hagas que fulano. no pueda en paseos gozar, ni con mujeres andar ni comer, ni dormir si a mi lado no esta. Que sus pensamientos sean solo para mi, lo mismo que su voluntad y que me de la felicidad de todo su amor. (*Tres Padres Nuestros*) SIXTH DAY Oh Sovereign Lady! In that the Holy Trinity in our Eternal Father has blinded the life of all mortals to the fact that you will come to everyone sooner or later, whether rich or poor or in youth, who does to us all the same, old, young, child; we enter your domain of death when God decrees. I implore you that ____name____ is much in love with me, not just for physical beauty, but also for my soul, and that he comes to me faithful, submissive, kneeling at my feet. (*Three Our Fathers*) SEXTO DIA !Oh Soberana Senora! a la que la Divina Trinidad en el Padre Eterno puso para cegar la vida de todos los mortales, a la que a todos llega mas tarde o mas tenprano y que no le importan las riquezas o juventudes, pues es pareja con viegos, jovenes o ninos, a los que habra de llevar a sus dominios, cuando Dios se lo indique. Te suplico que fulano. se ena- more mucho de mi, que no se fije en la hermosura fisica, sino en la de mi alma, y que venga a mi sumiso, field, arrodillado a mis pies. (*Tres Padres Nuestros*) SEVENTH DAY Liberate me from all evil, and with the titanic power with which God endowed you, make it so that we enjoy eternal heavenly nightless days. Protector and owner: I beg you to grant me the favors I request in these prayers. I ask that _______________________. (*Three Our Fathers*) SEPTIMO DIA Librame a mi de todo mal, y con este titanico poder que tienes con el cual Dios te doto, haras que gocemos eternamente, un dia glorioso sin noches. Por eso protectora y Duena: te pido me concedas los favores que yo deseo en esta Novena. Se hace la peticion. (*Tres Padres Nuestros*) EIGHTH DAY Miraculous and Majestic Death: I ask that with your immense power you return my beloved, ____name____. Don't let him for one minute be sociable or tranquil with anyone he comes across; neither with friends nor with women may he be at ease. Grant that while sleeping, he thinks of me, and that he listens to the words I say to you in his sleep, and that he does what I ask. (*Three Our Fathers*) OCTAVO DIA Milagrosa Y Majestuosa Muerte: Te pido que con tu poder inmenso me devuelvas el carino de . No lo dejes un momento sociego, ni tranquilo con nadie se halle, ni con amigos ni con mujeres contento esta. Si esta durmiendo me este pensamiento este en mi, y en las palabras que yo te digo las escuche y haga lo que yo te pido. (*Tres Padres Nuestros*) NINTH DAY Blessed Protector Death: By the virtues that God gave you I ask that you free me from all evil, danger, and sickness and that instead you give me LUCK, HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND MONEY, that you give me friends and freedom from my enemies, also making ____name____ come before me, humbled to ask my forgiveness, humble as a sheep, keeping his promises and always loving and submissive. (*Three Our Fathers*) NOVENO DIA Muerte Protectora Y Bendita: Por la virtud que Dios te dio: quero que me libres de todos los maleficios y peligros y enferme- dades y que en cambio me des: SUERTE, SALUD, FELICIDAD Y DINERO, que me des amigos y me libres de mis enemigos haciendo tambien que fulano. se presente ante mi humilde a pedirme perdon, humilde como un cordero, fiel a sus promesas y siempre amoroso y sumiso. (*Tres Padres Nuestros*) The reference to the pale blue Rosemary flower in the prayer of the "Third Day" has a significant dual meaning -- ros marinus ("the dew of the sea") is the ancient Latin name for the Mediterranean Rosemary herb much used in spells for female domination and in Peaceful Home spells -- but the sound of the words also makes a pun with the idea of a Rose of [the Virgin] Mary (whose sacred flower is the Rose), and so the herb, not at all related to Roses, has come to symbolize certain aspects of Mary, especially her sea-borne and home-strengthening apparitions. This spell-work must be done at night. The prayers for both "The Third Day and "The Eightth Day" make that clear, for the former refers to "midnight" and the latter to the beloved being asleep while the work is underway. The reason that it is necessary to begin this Novena on a Sunday night is because in the prayer for the "Third Day," mention is made of "Tuesday" -- but only if the first day is a Sunday will the third day will be a Tuesday. Also, as the prayer of the "Third Day" makes clear, even after the nine-day novena cycle is completed, the supplicant must continue to offer a candle to Santisima Muerte "every Tuesday of every week at twelve midnight" as long as the spell is desired to be in effect. In other words, the Novena cycle gets things going, but to keep them working, a candle must be offered to Holy Death every Tuesday at midnight. Finally, it is worth noting that this prayer-cycle contains elements rather similar to the better-known Prayer of Intranquility designed to bring back a lost lover. The "Ejaculatory" prayer and prayers of "The Third Day" and "The Eighth Day" all make a point of condemning the wandering lover to have no peace or tranquility in his social life until he complies with the desires of the petitioner. 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In addition to statues and images, there are also specific symbols and amulets associated with the Santa Muerte. These symbols can be worn as jewelry or carried as keychains or pendants. Some of the common symbols include skulls, scythes, and hourglasses, which are believed to represent death, time, and protection. The use of talismans of the holy death is closely linked to the rituals and practices of the Santa Muerte cult. Followers often perform ceremonies or prayers to communicate with the saint and establish a personal connection with her. These rituals may involve the use of talismans, such as lighting candles or placing offerings of food, flowers, or alcohol in front of the statues or images. While talismans of the holy death are primarily associated with the Santa Muerte cult, they also have a broader appeal and are sometimes used by individuals seeking protection or good luck, regardless of their religious beliefs. These talismans have gained popularity outside of Mexico and are now found in various spiritual or alternative shops around the world. It is important to note that the use of talismans of the holy death, like any form of spiritual or magical practice, is subjective and personal. Different individuals may have different experiences and beliefs regarding the efficacy and power of these talismans.. Reviews for "Holy Death Talismans: Gateways to the Spiritual Realm" 1. Jane - 2 stars - I was really disappointed with "Talismans of the Holy Death". The writing felt choppy and the storyline was confusing. I found it hard to connect with any of the characters, and their motivations were never fully explained. The book dragged on and I struggled to finish it. Overall, I was just left feeling unsatisfied. 2. Mike - 1 star - "Talismans of the Holy Death" was a complete waste of time for me. The plot was convoluted and poorly executed. 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