Babalu Aye: The Healer King

Not every Orisha brings comfort first. Some bring the fever before the cure — and in the Yoruba tradition, the same hand that afflicts is the only hand that can heal.

Among the Orisha of the Yoruba, Babalu Aye — also known as Obaluaye — is the sovereign of disease, healing, and the earth itself: the Orisha who carries both plague and the miracle cure in the same breath. Covered from head to foot to hide the wounds of the very afflictions he governs, he is feared and revered in equal measure — because to anger him is to invite sickness, and to honor him is to receive the deepest healing the Orisha have to offer.

In Babalu Aye: The Healer King, #1 bestselling author Ajarn Shaman Shu (Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola) opens the sacred Yoruba science of affliction and cure — the mysteries of the Orisha who governs epidemic and remedy alike.

Inside you'll discover:

Who Babalu Aye truly is — the Yoruba Orisha of plague, healing, and the earth
Why he is both feared and revered as He Who Afflicts and He Who Cures
The sacred symbols of his covering — the raffia, the beads, and the hidden face
The Ifa wisdom of illness as message, and healing as spiritual alignment
How to honor Babalu Aye and invoke his protection from disease
The Healer King's place among the Orisha, and his role in the balance of the earth

This is the reclamation of an ancient African science of healing — the wisdom that the same force which brings the wound also carries the cure.

The Orisha who afflicts. The Orisha who cures. The Healer King.