What is a Spiritual Boveda

The Bóveda or Spirit Altar for Ancestors

The bóveda or eggun altar is the center of eggun worship in the religion. It is the place we most often go to to salute and to commune with eggun on a daily basis. You don't have to have passed through any of the initiations to begin your relationship with eggun and to set up a bóveda is a fairly simple affair:

Boveda Room 

This type of Ancestral Altar is known as the 'Boveda' in Spanish. Its also called the 'White Table' or La Mesa Blanca.

Some even call it a Spiritual Table.

Depending on how a person may want to set it up, you will need the following ingredients:

• You can start off with one main glass for your spirits.Depending on the house a person may belong to, they may do the following:

•9 glasses. One large glass dedicated to your spiritual guide,

•the other 8 glasses dedicated to various spirits that walk with you.

•When placing the glasses on the table, they may follow one of a few different formations:

• The main glass in the middle, with the smaller glasses making a circle around the main glass.but there are many other types of formations used you can decide what best works for you.

•A person should spend at least some time with the spirits on a daily basis, take 10-15 minutes a day to say your prayers.

And once a week you clean the table, and refill each glass with fresh water.

• its good to light a 7 day white candle to give light and energy to the spirits.

•You should only light the table when you are home*

•As one person works the table properly and starts to know the spirits that walks with them... you may come in contact with other spirits that wishes to walk with you and to bring you positive energies.

• you may have to add a different cup for that spirit, or objects that may represent that spirit, but this is done in due time.

In our Religion its important to always honor our ancestor and those who passed away and were very important in our life.

One of the first things we must do is learn about the spiritual table.

Here at this table we recognize the spirits, as well as family members that have past away.

The nine (9) glasses consists of:

1-God ( El santisimo)

2-Spiritual Guide

3-7 African Powers

4-The Gypsy Spirits

5-Science

6-Spirits of the Congos

7-9, these should be dedicated to those spirits that are family members or close friends that have past away.

Many houses also recognize the four winds (also know as the 4 commission).

The Spiritual Guide is the spirit that will be the head of all the spirits that walks with us.

We all have a spiritual guide.

This spirit will manifest as the spirit that is in charge, and will work with us, and other spirits that may walk within our spiritual circle.

The table should be set up:

In a room where the table is by it self or somewhere in the house where it is private.

The table should be covered with a white table cloth.

The cup that is dedicated to God 

(El Santisimo ), some place a crucifix in it.

You can place a separate crucifix for the table.

The table should be lit with a candle (usually white), the table should have fresh white flowers.