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The tradition has also been called Lucumí, in reference to the colonial Spanish term for the Yoruba people, [8] or alternatively La Religión Lucumí ("the Lucumí religion") [9] or Regla Lucumí ("the rule of Lucumí"). [10] Santería is an Afro-Caribbean religion, [11] and more specifically an Afro-Cuban religion. [12]
The great plurality were Yoruba, from the area encompassed by the modern states of Nigeria and Benin; [13] the Yoruba had a shared language and culture but were divided among different states. [14] Most adhered to a complex system of belief and ritual, now known as Yoruba traditional religion, that had developed among the Yoruba city-states. [15]
The initiate is known as an iyabó [11] or iyawó, [12] a term meaning both "slave of the orisha" and "bride of the orisha". [13] As well as the santero or santera overseeing the initiation ceremony, the event may be attended by an oyubona ("one who witnesses"), who acts as a secondary godparent to the new initiate. [14]
A fusion of African religions and Catholicism, Santería was one of the few religious practices to endure through decades of The post Santeria, fusion of African religions and Catholicism, remains ...
Orishas (singular: orisha) [1] are divine spirits that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such as Haitian Vaudou, Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Santería and Brazilian Candomblé.
In their New Year predictions, high priests from Cuba's Afro-Cuban Santeria religion told followers on Thursday to watch their health and spending, care for their families, guard against crime and ...
(In 1989, it was believed that more than 70 million individuals in Africa and the New World participated in Yoruba religion in one way or another.) [2] The most prevalent West African religions, both in Africa and the Americas, are often those of the Yoruba people or those that were influenced by them. These West African religions also have ...
A divination tray on which cowrie shells rests, as are used for Ifá divination. Ifá or Fá is a divination system originating from Yorubaland in West Africa. It originates within the traditional religion of the Yoruba people although is also practised by followers of West African Vodun and in African diasporic religions like Cuban Santería.