Chapter 3 – pomba gira
To talk about Pomba Gira is to continue talking about Eshu, she is a female Eshu. The origin of her name is Bantu de bombogiro. The current name in Quimbanda is Pomba, which means pigeon, and Gira, something that spins. This is a very accurate definition since she is never in the same place, but always returns to the same places, she is restless as a dove and moves very fast. She is Eshu´s perfect companion, she is always represented as a very sensual, attractive woman who gives and provides pleasure. Pomba Gira knows all the secrets of love and enjoys using this knowledge.
She is the protector of free women. Women have the full right to choose and seduce the male they choose and Pomba Giras show this by choosing the Eshu they prefer: they have full freedom to move through all fields.
Pomba Gira is another energy that works to provide happiness for those who ask for it, but from a feminine point of view. She will listen to you sooner than Eshu will, but she will also take revenge sooner if you make her angry, since she will behave like a true woman.
Her favourite drink is champagne, but she will accept any sweet drink you find, especially, strawberry-flavoured drinks since it is an aroma Pomba Gira loves.
Cigarettes must be fine and better if they are blond and menthol flavoured tobacco.
Her favourite foods are always expensive foods. She is very capricious but she can afford it, because what people ask her well deserves this sacrifice in offerings.
You can also offer her the same food as Eshu, but she will never drink in china like him but in glass.
She is usually found at crossroads.
She eats raw eggs without breaking them with some dendé over them.
Dendé and honey flour is what she likes the most.
Pomba Gira´s purpose is love, pleasure and sexual freedom. She will make possible impossible connections.
She is mainly invoked for night business and this is where she is most worshipped. With just one red rose and a glass of the best champagne your business will prosper and you will earn much more money.
Men who want to have a good lover who pleases them do not hesitate to ask her for help. She knows all the secrets of sex and how to attract men to women like flies to manure.
You only have to ask her for help and she will help you. Do not forget, she always asks for something more in return. Not only you should take care of her and thank her with offerings, but you should also be eternally grateful.
Pomba Gira is part of Eshu's organisation chart. She is in one of the two kingdoms of Eshu, in Eshu Kalunga, but she also has her own organisation chart which I will describe next.
The main head is Her Highness Rainha Pomba Gira. You may ask her anything, her power is infinite and she gives everything, but she is too capricious to always give you what you want: if she feels like it, she will listen to you, if not, you will go completely unnoticed.
Rainha Das Encruzilhadas, Rainha Da Lomba, Rainha Da Praia and Rainha Das Ciganos depend on her. Each of these queens is in charge of different phalanxes that obey and follow their orders.
Rainha Das Encruzilhadas is the owner of roads and crossings, of everything that moves and advances. Everything that is born and grows is part of her. She will make you go forward or will paralyse you forever: you will be a puppet in her hands. Her different phalanxes act in the same way, i.e. opening and closing roads. Her phalanxes are:
–Pomba Gira 7 Encruzilhadas
–Pomba Gira 7 Saias
–Pomba Gira 7 Cuores
–Pomba Gira Rozinha
–Pomba Gira Menina
–Pomba Gira Roza
Pomba Gira Rainha Da Lomba is above Pomba Gira Das Encruzilhadas. She sees and observes everything. She is bold, warlike, and fast and protects women above all. She does not like sick or dependent relationships. She likes self-confident but honest women. She also helps women of the streets, who deserve enormous respect. Her phalanxes are:
–María Padilla
–María Farrapo
–María Mulambo
–María Quitería
–María Mirongueira
–Pomba Gira 7 Cobras
–Pomba Gira 7 Catacumbas
–Pomba Gira Dos Fornos
–Pomba Gira Da Kalunga
–Pomba Gira Das Almas
Pomba Gira Rainha Da Praia is the owner of water and true, clean and pure loves. She removes moorings done to you and she makes people of the opposite sex closer to you, but only those that are worthwhile. Her phalanxes are:
–Pomba Gira Beira d’agua
–Pomba Gira Da Praia
–Pomba Gira Menina Da Praia
–Pomba Gira Das Almas Da Praia.
Pomba Gira Rainha Das Ciganos is the owner of fun, everything that is esoteric, easy money, beauty and attraction. She helps you to obtain things fast but you also lose them fast. Things are not to be kept but to keep changing. She always gives you what you need at the time. Her phalanxes are:
–Pomba Gira Cigana Da Praza
–Pomba Gira
–Cigana Do Pandeiro
–Pomba Gira Cigana Da Rúa
–Pomba Gira Cigana Menina
–Pomba Gira Cigana Do Povo
–Pomba Gira Cigana Do Oriente
–Pomba Gira Cigana Do Amor
–Pomba Gira Cigana Da Fe
–Pomba Gira Zoraida
–Pomba Gira Zonoroida
The use of flowers has a different meaning for Pomba Giras:
– White roses are used for peace and health, especially for children. You may offer them to Pomba Gira Menina, among others.
– Red roses are used for unbridled passion and active sex and you may offer them to any Pomba Gira you like.
– Yellow roses should be offered especially to the Ciganas since they attract lovers and extramarital relationships.
– Jasmine flowers are offered to Praia because they are the most self-sacrificing.
– Daisies are used to hide feelings and can also be offered to any of them.
– Violets can be offered to any Pomba Gira from Kalunga since they represent solitude.
– Gladioli are for Pomba Gira das Encruzilhadas, they represent burning desires and fidelity in love.
– Don't forget that carnations are always for Eshu since they represent impulsivity, attraction and hidden loves.
Everyone knows more or less who Pomba Gira is: a female Eshu who has the strength and power of seduction in all her weapons. She is charming, suggestive, striking, attractive, and interesting and a sorceress.
As in the case of Eshu, Pomba Gira also gets paid for all the works. However, she is different in the sense that you must not make her angry because then, she becomes very fierce and there has never been an angry woman worse than her.
Her anger has no limits and she will do whatever she can to dismantle your life, she will never get tired of hurting you for nothing. She enjoys doing it. Therefore, you must have a very clear idea that if you are going to ask her for help, you must not leave her in the lurch, speak badly about her, or stop caring for her, or you will taste her anger.
You can ask Pomba Gira anything that is related to love, sex, passions, etc.
This is the world she dominates, feelings are her field. She will help you get what you need even if it means doing harm to another person for free, she does not care: if you do not respect the other person, she does not either. She will not judge you because she does not care: she also always gets everything she wants.
You can ask for a true and stable love to any Pomba Gira Da Praia. They are sweeter and more traditional: for them not everything is worth in love.
Pomba Gira always moves at will and although she is Eshu's wife, she does not keep stable principles with him or with anyone else.
If Pomba Gira helps you, it's because she feels like it, it is not because you ask for it, it depends on her mood in that day.
Attraction is her strongest point and sensuality her intelligence: with these two weapons she can move the whole world and deceive anybody. She is an accomplished actress and does not believe in feelings but in passions, she moves by instinct and before being hurt, she hurts you first.
She does not understand apologies or forgiveness: if you have failed, you have failed. There are no second chances. She does not like the weak, she is the goddess and enables love and she would do anything to achieve it.
Love and sex are connected with her: love and sweetness belong to Pomba Giras of Praia, fun and easy money to Ciganas and problems of moorings to Kalunga.
Just as she helps you to get a love, she cleanses you of any mooring that has been made to you or the person you care about. Anger and revenge from Kalunga’s Pomba Giras are immense and their effectiveness is very fast. You cannot tell them what to do, you must let yourself go in their hands and entrust yourself to them to come to fruition.
