Simbi Makaya

THE RECORD SAYS WHAT THE SOURCE SAYS AND NO MORE. The retrieved treatment names him only as the contrasting pole of the Simbi range - 'the Simbi range from balanced and benevolent forms, such as Simbi Andezo, to figures such as Simbi Makaya' - and does not describe him. The Makaya rite that carries his name is not in the retrieved material and is censused BLOCKED rather than written in from general knowledge.

Domains

• fresh water
• sorcery

Relations

• of the simbi with: Simbi

Sources

• Reference treatment of the Simbi: the Simbi range from balanced and benevolent forms, such as Simbi Andezo, to figures such as Simbi Makaya; Simbi is foremost a spirit of fresh water - of springs, streams and wells - and a consummate magician, who lends his power to many a houngan, manbo and bokò, and is revered as a master of sorcery and of spiritual communication; Simbi Andezo, 'Simbi of two waters', stands between vitality and disappearance, memory and forgetting, healing and dissolution, a spirit of thresholds within water, ruling the place where currents meet, where one state becomes another, and where the visible world touches the hidden world.