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A group of Santería practitioners performing the Cajón de Muertos ceremony in Havana in 2011. Santería (Spanish pronunciation: [santeˈɾi.a]), also known as Regla de Ocha, Regla Lucumí, or Lucumí, is an Afro-Caribbean religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th century.
Aganjú - orisha that was a warrior king, walked with a sword as a staff, and is associated with fire. He is not associated with volcanoes in Yorùbáland in West Africa, contrary to what is believed in Cuban-style practice of orisa.
A symbol of the Yoruba religion (Isese) with labels Yoruba divination board Opon Ifá. According to Kola Abimbola, the Yorubas have evolved a robust cosmology. [1] Nigerian Professor for Traditional African religions, Jacob K. Olupona, summarizes that central for the Yoruba religion, and which all beings possess, is known as "Ase", which is "the empowered word that must come to pass," the ...
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In the second half of the twentieth century, there was a growing awareness among santeros/santeras of the trans-national links that their religion had with other orisha-worshipping belief systems in West Africa and the Americas. This was accompanied by growing contact with other orisha-worshippers elsewhere. [30]
The linguist Wande Abimbola argued that Ifá probably derived from a simpler divinatory system, diloggun; this contrasts with the belief of some babalawos that diloggun was based on Ifá. [ 54 ] Between circa 1727 and 1823, the kingdom of Dahomey was a vassal state of the Yoruba-dominated Oyo Empire to the east, thus resulting in much religious ...
Being initiated is known as kariocha, [1] "making ocha", [2] or "making santo". [3] A charge is usually levied for initiation; [4] this varies depending on the status of the practitioner and the wealth of the client [5] but is typically seen as expensive. [6]
Carl Friedrich Gauss Charles Sanders Peirce Dmitri Mendeleev Hermann Weyl Humphry Davy James Watt Jules Verne Ludwig Boltzmann Max Born Max Planck Mikhail Lomonosov Neil Armstrong Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine Voltaire Wolfgang Pauli This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as Deists, the belief in a deity based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths ...