Temple of The Machete Who Wins all Battles.

  Candelo Cedifé smiles as a Salamander Fire Elemental dances within the burning bowl of his pipe—a symbolic image accompanying Kevin Wikse’s writings on Fire Element cultivation, occult practice, and Dominican Vodou. We are nearly two months away from the November 4 feast day of Saint Charles Borromeo and Candelo Cedifie, and the end of October and beginning of November will also bring us into our annual Ghede work. Like Kousen Azaka before him, Candelo Cedifie has expressed his desire to empower our Temple practice and infuse his energy into its foundational framework. Candelo Cedifie is a master of Fire. As part of the coming work, Candelo has said that he will take our individual Fire Elementals under his tutelage, training and refining them into exceptional beings of flame. Through this relationship, their nature, intelligence, power, and capacity will be cultivated, permanently elevating their status in the eyes of King Djinn and within the greater hierarchy of the Elemental ...

Candelo Cedifie Candelo Cedife is a powerful but humble loa . During his life, Candelo Cedife (a Congo slave), is said to have participated in the Haitian slave revolt and fought for liberation against the French. He was a priest of Vodou, and a Palero (a magician who knows the magical properties of sticks), in our lineage of Vodou we acknowledge Candelo Cedife as a worker of n'gangas (spirit vessels) also, but that is highly controversial among other lineages. Upon his death, he became a Ghede, and started attending Vodou ceremonies. Due to this Candelo Cedife is often served on the point of the dead, and has a special relationship with the Baron Del Cementerio. Candelo Cedife is known to be kind, but very stern. He loves fire, using it for all metaphysical and purification work. When he comes down in possession during ceremonies, the hosting temple will offer him three lit red candles. He often drips candle wax onto the body of the individual he is possessing and then ...