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At the end of the year, the initiate conducts a ceremony known as ebó del año. [65] It is only once this is done that they are allowed to lead many rituals and to be involved in the initiation of new converts. [65] The annual celebration of one's initiation into the religion is known as the cumpleaños de santo ("birthday in the saint"). [66]
Next comes the ceremonia del río ("ceremony of the initiate"), in which offerings are given to Ochún, [259] and the rompimiento ("breaking"), in which the oyubona takes the initiate to purify themselves in a river. [260] The rest of the initiation takes place in the igbodu, [261] where the initiate sleeps upon a mat on the floor for the seven ...
Omiero is also used during initiation ceremonies for the purpose of purifying the initiate. [7] In Santería initiation ceremonies, the iyawó (initiate) ingests omiero on each of the seven days of initiation.
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Ifá practitioners believe in duality in life: males exist because of the female essence and females exist because of the male essence, so every major rite or ceremony includes both genders. [ 7 ] Every Ifá stanza has one portion dedicated to the issue of teaching the Iwa that Ifá supports.
The closing ceremony took place in January 1978, attended by 14 students who were granted the status of omo (son of) Ifá. [73] One of these pupils, a Candomblé initiate named José Nilton Vianna Reis (Torodê de Ogun), later went on to become a babalawo nine years later, before setting out his own Ifá teaching course in 1984.
Sacraments of initiation; Salting (initiation ceremony) Samskara (rite of passage) Savika; Schoolies week; Secular coming-of-age ceremony; Sexual rites of passage; Shichi-Go-San; Shinbyu; Sso (rite) Sweet sixteen (birthday)
The Chain of Union is used in most blue (craft) Lodge rituals and can occur at specific moments in Masonic ceremonies. For example, craft lodges working the Scottish Rite is performed twice during initiation ceremonies: first, when receiving a new initiate into the brotherhood and again at the closing of the works. The chain is also formed ...