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The process of initiation takes place over seven days, [15] with an additional two days of preparatory rituals. [7] Before the main seven-day ceremony, usually two days before, a misa espiritual will often take place to gain the blessings of the ancestral egun. During this ritual, it is common for the egun to be invited to possess the initiate ...
As well as the santero or santera overseeing the initiation ceremony, the event may be attended by an oyubona or oyugbona ("one who witnesses"), who acts as a secondary godparent to the new initiate. [255] The initiation process takes seven days, [256] plus two days of preparatory rituals. [257]
Omiero is again used to wash the drums employed during ritual drumming sessions as part of the ritual to consecrate them. [6] 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. [2]
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The initiation ceremony into a Palo praise house is known as a rayamiento ("cutting"). [261] The ceremony is usually timed to occur on the night of a waxing moon, performed when the moon reaches its fullest light, due to a belief that the moon's potential grows in tandem with that of the dead. [262]
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.
The women’s soccer coach asked new players inappropriate questions during the “hot seat” ritual, according to a lawsuit. College coach put players through ‘sexually explicit’ initiation ...
Aldrich Potgieter, of South Africa, tees off on the 14th hole during the third round of the Mexico Open golf tournament in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025.