Palo Mayombe- El Jardin De Sangre Y Huesos [2021] Site

To walk through the gate of this garden, you must leave your Western morality at the threshold. You must accept that the earth eats flesh, and that from that ingestion, spirit grows.

And if you listen closely—especially at midnight, especially near a crossroads—you can hear it growing. Palo Mayombe- El Jardin de Sangre y Huesos

“El Jardin de Sangre y Huesos” is not a literal botanical garden. It is a spiritual metaphor for the prenda or nganga —the sacred iron cauldron that serves as the altar and engine of Palo Mayombe. In this garden, blood is the water that nourishes the seeds (the bones), and the resulting plant is fuerza (raw, unrefined spiritual power). At the center of every Palo temple sits the Nganga , also known as the Prenda or Caldero . If you were to peek inside this iron pot, you would understand immediately why outsiders call it a "garden of bones." To walk through the gate of this garden,