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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]
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 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 kanzo ritual is important because it places the initiate under the direct care of a loa (also spelled lwa, Vodou spirits). [1] The next step is known as kouche (to lie down), which is when the initiate enters a period of seclusion. [2] The future manbo is locked in the djévò (initiation room) for nine days with an ason. [14]
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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]