Offerings:
All white foods, sweetened condensed milk, sweet coffee, snakeskins, gummi snakes, egg on a mound of flour, basin of water, his image.
Litany:
Por Damballah Wedo, serpent sage, juste, eternel. Ancient pere venerable. Createur, protecteur. Source de la sagesse de la vie. Patron des eaux du ciel et des rivieres. Acceptez nos offrandes. Entrez dans nos coeurs, dans nos bras, dans nos jambes. Entrez ici. Dancez avec nous.
Kreyol:
Pou Danbala Wedo, coulev ki ganyin sages, coulev ki ganyin jistess, coulev ki eternel. Asyen papa adore. Create, protecte. Ki bay sages lavi. Chef siel la e toutt rivie yo. Aksepte ofran'n nou. Antre nan ke nou, nan bra nou, nan jam'm nou. Antre vin'n danse avek nou!
Translation:
For Danbalah Wedo, wise, just, eternal serpent. Ancient venerable father. Protective creator. Source of life wisdom. Patron of the Waters of Heaven, and of rivers. Accept our offerings. Enter into our hearts, our arms, our legs. Enter and dance with us.
Traditional:
Danbala Wedo is the ancient sky father. He arches across the sky as a snake beside his rainbow wife, Ayida Wedo. He is the origin of life, and the ancient source of wisdom. Danbala is absolutely beneficent, if somewhat aloof and abstract. His possessions begin with a deep plunge into his sacred basin of water and continue with the inarticulate undulations of a snake. He is covered with a white sheet during his possessions, and especially while he eats. Danbala's color is pure white. He prefers white foods, milk, pudding, rice and an egg perched on a mound of flour.
