His Eminence Baba Siete Saudades, (Keeper of the Black Throne and the Two Swords) is a Hoodoo practitioner, author, ritual theorist, and founder of The Myriad, a contemporary House and Order rooted in Hoodoo, ancestral reverence, ritual practice, spiritual philosophy, ceremonial aesthetics, and African diasporic continuity. Based in Cape Town and originally from New York City, his work exists at the intersection of spirituality, publishing, cosmology, performance, jurisprudence, and cultural preservation.

Over more than two decades of practice and study, Baba Siete has developed an increasingly visible body of work concerned with the articulation of Hoodoo as a coherent spiritual, philosophical, and civilizational framework rather than merely fragmented folklore or isolated folk practice. Through writing, ritual work, prayer traditions, public discourse, ceremonial development, and institutional initiatives, he has become known for exploring themes of ancestral memory, spiritual authority, governance, sound, embodiment, sacred aesthetics, and Black Atlantic continuity.

He is the author of works including The Book of 121 Prayers and Spiritual Diplomacy: Hoodoo Jurisprudence and Natural Law, texts which examine prayer, ritual continuity, spiritual governance, ancestral law, and the philosophical dimensions of Hoodoo. His broader literary and conceptual work contributes toward an expanding contemporary Hoodoo canon through essays, white papers, ceremonial texts, ritual frameworks, and developing publications.

Baba Siete is also the founder of The Myriad Institute, the cultural, archival, and educational arm of The Myriad. The Institute focuses on preservation, publishing, oral history, salons, diasporic continuity, ritual culture, and interdisciplinary work surrounding African diasporic spirituality, memory, philosophy, and aesthetics. Its projects include archival initiatives documenting elder memory and cultural life as well as ceremonial and artistic explorations such as Masquerade: A Thousand Mouths, a project devoted to the remembrance and ritual embodiment of the Drowned Ancestors of the Maafa.

His work frequently engages the relationship between ritual and civilization: how prayer, sound, symbolism, law, memory, ceremony, aesthetics, and sacred technologies shape communities across generations. Through both philosophical and ceremonial frameworks, Baba Siete explores the continuing survival and transformation of African diasporic knowledge systems within the modern world.

Baba Siete is additionally initiated to maNjuzu/Nzunza, the water spirits as articulated in ubuNgoma. In this system, he is known as Mkhulu Bukhosi Bhekizulu chaNjuzu uZanemvula. His line of initiation is traceable to the reknowned spiritual healer known as Baba Mandaza Kandemwa. 

In addition to his publishing and institutional work, Baba Siete offers private consultation and advisory services focused on continuity-based spiritual guidance, ceremonial consultation, ritual interpretation, and personal advisory work. His broader ecosystem also includes ceremonial preparations, consecrated adornments, prayer traditions, and ongoing cultural programming developed through The Myriad.

Known for his distinctive synthesis of spiritual authority, philosophical framing, ceremonial aesthetics, and public discourse, Baba Siete’s work continues to explore what it means for African diasporic traditions not merely to survive modernity, but to articulate themselves as living systems of knowledge, beauty, governance, and sacred continuity.