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Santeria

Author : Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802849731
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Santeria written by Miguel A. De La Torre and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone. Santería is a religion with Afro-Cuban roots, rising out of the cultural clash between the Yoruba people of West Africa and the Spanish Catholics who brought them to the Americas as slaves. With the exile of thousands of Cubans after Castro's revolution in 1959, Santería came to the United States, where it is gradually coming to be recognized as a legitimate faith tradition, one about which most people in America's mainstream know very little. De La Torre explains the worldview, myths, rituals, and history of Santería, and discusses what role the religion typically plays in the life of its practitioners as well as the cultural influence it continues to exert in Latin American communities today.--From publisher description.

The Secrets of Afro-Cuban Divination

Author : Ócha'ni Lele
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594778612
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Secrets of Afro-Cuban Divination written by Ócha'ni Lele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to provide complete, specific instructions on casting the Diloggún, the cowrie-shell oracle of the Orishas. • Provides step-by-step instructions never before published, detailing requirements and procedure for casting the Diloggún. • Includes a detailed “mojuba” or prayer used to awaken the Orishas (spirit entities) for divination. • Devotes an entire chapter to each of the twelve basic Odu (random patterns in which the sixteen shells fall), providing ritual mechanics and oracular meanings for all possible castings. The Afro-Cuban faith, known to outsiders as Santeria and to adherents as Las Reglas de Ocha de Los Lucumi, is not a static religion but a living conduit of energy for connecting the spirit world to our own. It came to the New World with the slave trade where it has evolved in response to the surrounding culture. For adherents of Lucumi, the Diloggún is the most important focus of worship: the sacred shells reveal the forces at play in an adherent's life. These forces are redefined and placated by the Orisha priest, who makes direct contact with the spirit world in an effort to help the adherent evolve. While many books have been published about Santeria, The Secrets of Afro-Cuban Divination is the first to provide complete information on how to cast the Diloggún, including opening, reading, and closing the oracle, and how to give a comprehensive reading. With a detailed discussion about why each prayer is offered and insight into the metaphysical core of the religion, this book will bring those seeking the wisdom of the Diloggún closer to the living Orishas than they have ever been.

The Diloggún

Author : Ócha'ni Lele
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892819126
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book The Diloggún written by Ócha'ni Lele and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on Santer�s holiest divination system, the Diloggun. Explores the lore surrounding this mysterious oracle, the living Bible of one of the world's fastest growing faiths. Examines each family of " odu" and how their actions affect the spiritual development of the individual. An indispensable guide to the mysteries of the orishas.

Decolonizing Diasporas

Author : Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810142449
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Diasporas written by Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial theory as frameworks, Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez juxtaposes Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic diasporic artists, analyzing work by Nelly Rosario, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Donato Ndongo, Junot Díaz, Aracelis Girmay, Loida Maritza Pérez, Ernesto Quiñonez, Christina Olivares, Joaquín Mbomio Bacheng, Ibeyi, Daniel José Older, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Figueroa-Vásquez’s study reveals the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to one another. Decolonizing Diasporas examines how themes of intimacy, witnessing, dispossession, reparations, and futurities are remapped in these works by tracing interlocking structures of oppression, including public and intimate forms of domination, sexual and structural violence, sociopolitical and racial exclusion, and the haunting remnants of colonial intervention. Figueroa-Vásquez contends that these diasporic literatures reveal violence but also forms of resistance and the radical potential of Afro-futurities. This study centers the cultural productions of peoples of African descent as Afro-diasporic imaginaries that subvert coloniality and offer new ways to approach questions of home, location, belonging, and justice.

The Social Life of Spirits

Author : Ruy Blanes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608180X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Spirits written by Ruy Blanes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities—with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions—providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents. The contributors tour the spiritual globe—the globe of nonthings—in essays on topics ranging from the Holy Ghost in southern Africa to spirits of the “people of the streets” in Rio de Janeiro to dragons and magic in Britain. Avoiding a reliance on religion and belief systems to explain the significance of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a rich network of social trajectories, ultimately arguing for a new ontological ground upon which to examine the intangible world and its interactions with the tangible one.

El Monte

Author : Lydia Cabrera
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023341
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book El Monte written by Lydia Cabrera and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature, and botany to provide a panoramic account of the multifaceted influence of Afro-Atlantic cultures in Cuba. Cabrera details the natural and spiritual landscape of the Cuban monte (forest, wilderness) and discusses hundreds of herbs and the constellations of deities, sacred rites, and knowledge that envelop them. The result is a complex spiritual and medicinal architecture of Afro-Cuban cultures. This new edition of what is often referred to as “the Santería bible” includes a new foreword, introduction, and translator notes. As a seminal work in the study of the African diaspora that has profoundly impacted numerous fields, Cabrera’s magnum opus is essential for scholars, activists, and religious devotees of Afro-Cuban traditions alike.

Osogbo

Author : Ócha'ni Lele
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620553449
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Osogbo written by Ócha'ni Lele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By understanding osogbo, the spirits of misfortune, we can better overcome them and return to health and balance in our lives • Explains how misfortune works in this world as living spirits that plague humanity but are also a catalyst for self-development and conscious evolution • Shows that we can overcome osogbo through ebó, sacrifice, and hard work as prescribed by consulting the orishas through the casting of the diloggún • Shares more than 40 ancient African sacred stories about the spirits of osogbo Beginning with the story of his goddaughter's battle with stage IV cancer, Lucumi priest Ócha'ni Lele explains the role of osogbo, or misfortune, in our lives. While everyone seeks blessings in life, undeserved blessings make us weak and lazy. It is tragedy that encourages us to grow and persevere. Exploring the Lucumí beliefs regarding osogbo, he shows that the Lucumí faith is neither fatalistic nor defeatist but healing and life affirming. He shares more than 40 patakís--stories stemming from the ancient Yoruba of West Africa--about the different spirits of osogbo, who like the orishas once walked the earth in human bodies. He explains the place of these spirits within the 256 odu of the diloggún, the divination system used in Santería to receive guidance from the orishas. Lele shows that the spirits of osogbo are not only concepts but also real deities and that we can, if we understand their nature, fight them through ebó, sacrifice, and hard work. He reveals how the osogbos see themselves as entities of misfortune who stand against life and all that is good in the world, but in truth it is misfortune that strengthens us, misfortune that motivates us, and misfortune that brings great evolution to the world. As the author shows, “Without bitterness, one could not know sweetness.” Likewise, without misfortune in our lives, we would never know blessings or what it means to be blessed.

Sacrificial Ceremonies of Santería

Author : Ócha'ni Lele
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594775001
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Sacrificial Ceremonies of Santería written by Ócha'ni Lele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore the history, methods, and thinking behind sacrifice in the growing Santería faith • Explains the animal sacrifice ceremony in step-by-step detail • Shares the ancient African sacred stories that reveal the well-thought-out metaphysics and spirituality behind the practice of animal sacrifice • Chronicles the legal fight all the way to its 1993 U.S. Supreme Court victory to establish legal protection for the Santería faith and its practitioners Tackling the biggest controversy surrounding his faith, Santería priest Ócha’ni Lele explains for the first time in print the practice and importance of animal sacrifice as a religious sacrament. Describing the animal sacrifice ceremony in step-by-step detail, including the songs and chants used, he examines the thinking and metaphysics behind the ritual and reveals the deep connections to the odu of the diloggún--the source of all practices in this Afro-Cuban faith. Tracing the legal battle spearheaded by Oba Ernesto Pichardo, head of the Church of the Lukumi of Babaluaiye, over the right to practice animal sacrifice as a religious sacrament, Lele chronicles the fight all the way to its 1993 U.S. Supreme Court victory, which established legal protection for the Santería faith and its practitioners. Weaving together oral fragments stemming from the ancient Yoruba of West Africa, the author reconstructs their sacred stories, or patakís, that demonstrate the well-thought-out metaphysics and spirituality behind the practice of animal sacrifice in the Yoruba and Santería religion, including explanations about why each animal can be regarded as food for both humans and the orisha as well as how sacrifice is not limited to animals. Shedding light on the extraordinary global growth of this religion over the past 50 years, Lele’s guide to the sacrificial ceremonies of Santería enables initiates to learn proper ceremony protocol as well as gives outsiders a glimpse into this most secretive world of the santeros.

Garden in the Machine

Author : David Hilary Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden in the Machine written by David Hilary Brown and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ibeyi

Author : Stuart Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942272574
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Ibeyi written by Stuart Myers and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is through the Ibeyi that the promises of Oshun are fulfilled: a life filled with beauty, sweetness and love; it is also through them that the beautiful Orisha seems more human, more fragile, and yet immensely more powerful. They are the pride, and in many ways, the source of Shango's power and strength, and through them one also learns of Yemaya's heartfelt duty to be Mother to all as she is Mother to the world and most of the Orishas. They are integral to the system of Orisha worship--without them the ache of neither the aleyo nor Santero can be complete. Enjoy this pamphlet--for all of you who read this work and continue your studies among the Orisha tradition, my prayer is this: that Eleggua opens the rods to knowledge, and Obatala helps you use the knowledge in your quest for wisdom and Iwa Pele--Good character. Ache! To!

Afro-Cuban Tales

Author : Lydia Cabrera
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803264380
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Afro-Cuban Tales written by Lydia Cabrera and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western culture of the Americas. In this charmed realm of myth and legend, imaginative flights, and hard realities, Cabrera shows us a world turned upside down. In this domain guinea hens can make dour Asturians and the king of Spain dance; little fat cooking pots might prepare their own meals; the pope can send encyclicals about pumpkins; and officials can be defeated by the shrewdness of turtles. The first English translation of one of the most important writers on African culture in the Americas, the collection provides a fascinating view of how African traditions, myths, stories, and religions traveled to the New World?of how, in their tales, Africans in the Americas created a New World all their own.

SYNTHESIS OF THE AFRICAN ORISHAS IN CUBA

Author : MARCELO MADAN
Publisher : Madan Orunmila Edition Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SYNTHESIS OF THE AFRICAN ORISHAS IN CUBA written by MARCELO MADAN and published by Madan Orunmila Edition Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover the Magic of the African Orishas in Cuba: A Visual and Explanatory Guide" Delve into the fascinating world of the Orishas with this unique work, which reveals the secrets and richness of the Afro-descendant tradition in Cuba in a clear and accessible way. "Synthesis of the African Orishas in Cuba" is your gateway to an ancestral culture that has endured throughout the centuries. In its pages, you will explore: - The Main Orishas: Get to know the central deities of this tradition, their characteristics and their influence on daily life. - Religious Synchronization and Mythology: Discover how the Orishas integrate with other traditions and explore the legends that bring their stories to life. - Settlements and Avatars: Learn about the different places where they are found and their symbolic representations. - Tools and Herbs: A full-color photo gallery illustrates the sacred objects and plants associated with each Orisha, revealing their uses and meanings. This book not only offers you a comprehensive explanation of the fundamental elements of Afro-descendant religion in Cuba, but also provides you with a rich visual experience that enriches your understanding of these fascinating spiritual beings. Ideal for those who wish to delve deeper into the culture, history, and art of the Orishas.

AFROCUBAN OSAIN TREATY -English-

Author : MARCELO MADAN
Publisher : Madan Orunmila Edition Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book AFROCUBAN OSAIN TREATY -English- written by MARCELO MADAN and published by Madan Orunmila Edition Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book "Treaty of Afro-Cuban Osain" is based on the knowledge of the Afro-Cuban tradition, of this important deity of Yoruba origin. It contains extensive and very complete information on the knowledge of the liturgical ceremonial of Osain, as developed by the great Osainists of the island of Cuba included, its creation, oath ceremony and consecration of the foundation. With more than 900 works and insheses that allows you, solve all the problems that come your way. More than 160 signatures to work with Osain as well as full color photos of the plants, sticks and birds that are used to support you in your work as Babalawo in this field and also a extensive Lukumí vocabulary that will help you decipher the phrases and prayers of this complex liturgical writing.

Santeria Enthroned

Author : David H. Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226076096
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Santeria Enthroned written by David H. Brown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. In Santería Enthroned, David H. Brown combines art history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression. Focusing on the royal throne as a potent metaphor in Santería belief and practice, Brown shows how negotiation among ideologically competing interests have shaped the religion's symbols, rituals, and institutions from the nineteenth century to the present. Rich case studies of change in Cuba and the United States, including a New Jersey temple and South Carolina's Oyotunji Village, reveal patterns of innovation similar to those found among rival Yoruba kingdoms in Nigeria. Throughout, Brown argues for a theoretical perspective on culture as a field of potential strategies and "usable pasts" that actors draw upon to craft new forms and identities—a perspective that will be invaluable to all students of the African Diaspora. American Acemy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (Analytical-Descriptive Category)

Theorizing Folklore from the Margins

Author : Solimar Otero
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025305608X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Folklore from the Margins written by Solimar Otero and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of folklore has historically focused on the daily life and culture of regular people, such as artisans, storytellers, and craftspeople. But what can folklore reveal about strategies of belonging, survival, and reinvention in moments of crisis? The experience of living in hostile conditions for cultural, social, political, or economic reasons has redefined communities in crisis. The curated works in Theorizing Folklore from the Margins offer clear and feasible suggestions for how to ethically engage in the study of folklore with marginalized populations. By focusing on issues of critical race and ethnic studies, decolonial and antioppressive methodologies, and gender and sexuality studies, contributors employ a wide variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches. In doing so, they reflect the transdisciplinary possibilities of Folklore studies. By bridging the gap between theory and practice, Theorizing Folklore from the Margins confirms that engaging with oppressed communities is not only relevant, but necessary.

Obí

Author : Ócha'ni Lele
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594777934
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Obí written by Ócha'ni Lele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The first book to provide complete, specific instructions for casting the obi oracle of the Santería faith. • Uses the shell of a coconut, which embodies the spirit of Obí, as a divination tool. • Includes a detailed “mojuba” or prayer that awakens the orishas and invites them to speak. • Examines in depth the five basic patterns that appear when obí is cast and explains how to interpret the oracle's answer. • Explores the fifty additional patterns and meanings contributed by ten orishas closely associated with the orisha Obí One of the paths to the spirits within Santeria is through a divination technique known as obi, the coconut oracle, which gives the petitioner access to the orisha of the same name. The orisha Obí began as a mortal human who ascended to become an orisha as a reward for good deeds done on Earth, then fell from grace because of excessive pride. When he descended back to Earth, his spirit was embodied in the coconut palm. Though he no longer has a tongue, he can answer questions posed to him through the patterns made by four pieces of coconut shell cast as a divination tool. Obí: Oracle of Cuban Santería is the first book to fully explore the sacred body of lore surrounding Obí, as well as his particular rituals and customs, including opening considerations, casting and interpreting the oracle, and employing advanced methods of divination. Also explained are the previously unpublished secrets of closing the oracle properly so that any negative vibrations will be absorbed by the coconuts and permanently removed from the diviner's home.

Oracle

Author : Patricia A. Evans D.min. D.Th.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543464718
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Oracle written by Patricia A. Evans D.min. D.Th. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oracle: The Art of Intuitive Counseling is a practical guide for all those who are interested in oraculating, divination, and fortune-telling. This is a how-to, hands-on manual with a plethora of information and methodology useful to beginners and experts alike. Easy to read, witty, and resourceful, this book covers histories; practices; and theological, psychological, and ethical aspects of soothsaying from all over the world. The content is an homage to the authors diverse experience with this form of occultism spanning over forty-seven years. Incorporated into this work are rare assimilations of oral traditions, insights into origins, and a unique assembly of Native American practices anthologized for use by a new generation of mystics.