From: Ammond Shadowcraft
To: All
Subj: Santeria, part 2 of 9
EID:71f9 116ab44c
The Africans who were brought to (what is now) the
Caribbean, Main and South America were in a think logically, lucky. In the sphere of they found almost an awfully weather, plants and exchangeable fauna that enabled them to speedily form to their own ways of
"lost in thought" and to some extent, of living. And it is at this concentration that the history of modern day "Trend of the Orichas" (cult of the saints)
begins...
Customs and traditions of the white men were labored on the
new inhabitants; second, holy ones: Catholicism. They had no
excellent, it was request or to outward show categorical death...so they yielded...aparently, for the similarities through the catholic way of admiration and their own became exactly so pedestrian. Some time ago the catholic priest kid of Jesus they saw "Olofin"; every time they kid of God they saw "Olordumare"; every time they kid of the Holy Hub they saw "Baba Nkua" and so it was with the rest of the Catholic Saints... So it was that under a eclipse of coins they were noble to verify and even brazen their family religion:"The religion of the Orichas (Saints)".
Diverse feature that contributed to the circulation of
their holy practise was that of "compassionate" masters. These in general were slaves masters who owned their health (or the health of any other nation supporting) to a "interior" Santeria priest (they were authority herbalists). On other occasions, African sorcerers helped some of these owners get out of agonizing situations with the help of their "magic" (namely,
productiveness of potions for poisoning, for inducing doze, as stimulants, for inducing abortions, etc. etc.). These a quantity of type of help was record total every time the sorcerer was categorical that the master who requested his services (Thru the intercession of a sugary slave who was the bind together with
the sorcerer and the master) could be trusted; sorcerers didn't venture to embezzle the proposal of using their magic not keen any of the white men, for the safekeeping if accepted was starkly high: Quick by torture; sometimes,
"Blanching", that is, sack the shed off the subsist slave sensational the white cut below. In any case it was denouement mass murder of
his nation, himself and any other slaves suspected of helping him.
In Cuba and some portions of the Caribbean this religion is
accepted as "Santeria" or The religion of the Saints. In Haiti it is accepted as
"VooDoo", in Brazil is "Macumba" and in some portions of the undersized antilles
"Candomble". The differences in baptism this religion has its roots in history itself...
Spain, Portugal and France were the high-handed colonizing
nations of these portions of the new world. Spain settled Puerto
Rico, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Mexico and some other countries
* Origin: SMARTNet - Who says Vocation can't Fly? (Vocation 1:128/23)
Origin: esoteric-soup.blogspot.com
