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Santeria
- Cuban religious tradition that originated among people of West Africa and has spread around the world.
- Means "way of the saints"
- Way of venerating Yoruba spirits similar to Catholic saints.
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Yoruba
Tribes of African slaves living in Cuba
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Lukumi
The name that they came to be called, after an old name for Oyo.
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Slavery in Cuba
- Genocide of the Indigenous
- Slave population in Cuba
- 1886 abolishment of slavery
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Cabildos
- Religious brotherhoods
- Tribal nation
- Baile
- Feast days and processions: Los Reyes Magos
- Catholic images
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Priesthood
- Orula: the patron of divination
- individual spirits: Orichas
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Babalaos
- Priest of Orula
- means "the fathers of the mystery"
- trained to divine the devotees by means of an ancient oracle named Ifa
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La Regla de Ocha
- Mix of Yoruba religion, Catholicism, and Espiritismo (Spiritism)
- Olodumare
- Ashe
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The Orishas
- Supernatural beings or spirits
- Objects of worship with shrines and priesthood
- Child of an orisha
- Orishas in cabildos
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Chango
- Yoruba king who was deified
- Storms and lightning
- St. Barbara (associated with storms)
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Oshun
- Goddes of love, fertility, and marriage
- Associated with rivers
- Our Lady of Charity
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Babluaye
- Compassionated old man
- heal serious bodily infection
- St. Lazarus
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Religious practices
- Spirit possession, drumming
- Animal sacrifice
- Divination
- Home altars
- Spells
- House religion
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Initiation
performed by a priest or Santero/a
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Babalowo
- High priests
- Only men could become bablowo, but it is slowly changing
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Dissimulation
Hiding religious practices behind "masks"
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