The Myriad: The Cascading House of Night and Day

The Myriad is a contemporary House and Order rooted in Hoodoo, ancestral reverence, ritual practice, spiritual jurisprudence, and the preservation of diasporic knowledge systems. Founded by Baba Siete Saudades on August 21st, 2016 and expanding with him across multiple continents, The Myriad exists as both a living spiritual tradition and an evolving intellectual framework.

The Myriad is often held to be the first Hoodoo organization and ritual body in the modern era that does not present or situate itself as a Church or with and Abrahamic-adjacent internal logic.

Its work spans ritual practice, publishing, cultural preservation, prayer traditions, divination, ceremonial aesthetics, cosmology, and the ongoing study of African diasporic spiritual technologies. Through books, rites, lectures, salons, essays, and spiritual counsel, The Myriad approaches Hoodoo not as fragmented folklore or isolated “folk magic,” but as a sophisticated cultural and spiritual system with its own ontology, ethics, philosophies, ritual technologies, and civilizational depth.

The Myriad also serves as a space for disciplined spiritual development, ancestral continuity, and the exploration of sacred authority, sound, memory, embodiment, and transformation. Its work draws deeply from African diasporic inheritance while remaining attentive to the realities of the modern world.

At its core, The Myriad is concerned with continuity: continuity of memory, continuity of sacred practice, continuity of voice, and continuity between the living, the dead, and those yet to come.

The Myriad is both House and Order: a spiritual, philosophical, and ceremonial framework rooted in Hoodoo and African diasporic ancestral traditions.

As a House, it concerns lineage, continuity, sacred obligations, ritual relationships, and the cultivation of spiritual authority through discipline, devotion, study, and practice.

As an Order, it concerns philosophy, preservation, structure, cosmology, intellectual inquiry, and the articulation of spiritual systems capable of surviving modernity without surrendering their depth or integrity.

The Myriad’s work explores:

• ancestor reverence

• ritual technologies

• spiritual jurisprudence

• sacred sound and song

• cosmology and symbolic systems

• prayer traditions

• rites and ceremonial structure

• African retention within Hoodoo

• governance, memory, and continuity

The Myriad rejects the reduction of Hoodoo (and by extension, all African-generated spiritualities) into mere superstition, aesthetic trend, or detached “folk practice.” Instead, it approaches Hoodoo as a living ethnoreligious and civilizational framework carrying its own internal logic, sacred relationships, ritual technologies, and systems of meaning.

Its growing body of work includes books, prayers, essays, ritual frameworks, ceremonial concepts, educational programming, salons, and ongoing institutional development through The Myriad Institute.