domingo, 3 de junio de 2012

Religion

Santeria believes in a God or universal force that comes all creation, called Olodumare. The power of Olodumare is Ashe. Then there are the orishas, ​​are deities governing various aspects of the world. The Orishas also take care that every mortal meet the fate that has marked from birth.The identification of the Orishas with the most popular saints have very simple reasons, which relate to the appearance or actions of the saints:Babalu Aye the saint of the poor, refers to San Lazaro.Elegua, the holy child referred to the Holy Child of Atocha.Obatala, the Virgin of Mercedes, owner of all heads of the world.Chango, god of thunder is Santa Barbara, that Catholic beliefs are represented with red clothes and sword.Ogun, which handles iron, god of war and weapons, is associated with San Pedro, San Pablo, San Juan Bautista, San Miguel Archangel San Rafael Archangel and Cuban Santeria, Candomble in Brazil with the San Antonio de Padua and St. George (Rio de Janeiro), in Haitian voodoo, with James.Agayu finds its counterpart in San Cristobal, which for Christians is the saint of the volcanoes, brute force, the power of earth and fireInle, the physician, is St. Raphael, the archangel who heals and heals.La Virgen de Regla is Yemaya, goddess of motherhood and the sea.Oshun, the goddess of rivers is the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, she is the owner of love, gold, creator of money, beauty, coquetry. The most beautiful of the Orishas, ​​owner of honey, and patroness of Cuba.Oya is the goddess of the cemetery, is syncretized with the Virgin of La Candelaria, which in Spain is the patroness of the Canary Islands.Santeria has a priestly hierarchy. Although considered to OSHA and Ifa as separate branches, the highest priests of Santeria or Regla de Osha-Ifa are babalaos babalawos priests of Ifa and his prophet Orunmila. Then find the Babalorishas and Iyalorishas, ​​which are enshrined santeros godchildren. The Iyalorishas and Babalorishas, ​​santeros have no godchildren. The Iyawos, Santeria in its first year of consecrated persons, and finally the aleyos, who are believers but who have not yet been consecrated.All are santeros, initiated by specific rites, the first of which is a ritual of purification and delivery of five necklaces, representing Shango, Obbatalá, Yemaya ', Oshun and eleggua or receiving the Orishas warriors who are Eleggua Ogun, Oshosi Ozun.que are holy and consecrated in otanes [stones]The fundamental pillars of the religion based on worship of dead ancestors (eguns) and in the knowledge that there is one God (Olodumare) and is related to humans through extensions thereof, are also divinities, to which the Yoruba called Orishas. Because of these characteristics is considered to be a polytheistic religion.The ebbó or sacrifice to achieve problem solving economic, health problems or spiritual stability is present in religion, is also used to grasp the egguns arriving in the body of practitioners. And in divination through the three oracles who make up the religion, the oracle of Ifa (used by babalawos), the oracle of diloggún (snails) used by the oracle of Santeria and Biague (coconut), used interchangeably by both . The sacrifice can be plants, seeds, metals, animals or other products from nature.Animal sacrifice has been criticized by the mass media of Western cultures, however for the purpose of establishing the difference between the meaning of sacrifice found in the Old Testament and the Santería practices, we see in the book of Leviticus, specifically from verse 1 through 7, it tells the story of how one day the LORD God called Moses and told him to serve as a messenger to the children of Israel instructing in detail the method for performing the propitiatory sacrifices on their behalf . Similarly, Yahweh told Moses that these sacrifices, as long as they do according to the rules prescribed, would be welcomed by him and in return, the sins of the person offering the sacrifice would be forgiven. But it is now understood that animal sacrifice is no longer valid in the New Testament because Jesus Christ sacrificed himself for humanity, thereby canceling the sacrifices later.Clearly, unlike the Yoruba tradition, in this passage from the Old Testament sacrifice and how it must be done, both are given by God to mankind through the revelation to Moses and, secondly, the main purpose of sacrifice, as presented in this passage from the book of Leviticus, is to the forgiveness of sins and in this sense we can say that since Jesus Christ sacrificing himself so forgive all the sins of man, being now unnecessary making sacrifices, and all sins, even those who are committed have been and will be forgiven.In contrast, in Santeria animal sacrifice is determined by the rite of divination, which shows the existence of a fundamental characteristic among many endogenous religions of Africa, namely the absence of a divine revelation and, conversely The persistence of ancestral knowledge that has been transmitted to men and women from the earliest times, those, as the Yoruba, in which humanity and the Orisha lived on this planet. In this sense, never an animal is slaughtered wantonly. Every sacrifice responds to the request, through the methods of divination, or an ancestor orisha that requires one or more animals in order to resolve the situation we want to solve the person consulted.Orishas and ancestors generally request that they be offered one or more animals by specifying the type and gender) in the case of life or welfare of the person consulted are at stake. In this sense, the sacrifice is not an instrument by which it intends to redeem sin in Santeria as there is no such concept. In Santeria neither man nor woman is conceived as a priori certain holders (s) fault (s). The sacrifice, as Santeria cosmology, is the means by which a process can be restored or a rate that has been interrupted. Santeros refer to each person is born with a specific rhythm, a rhythm spiritual life, which should not be interrupted because if so, then the person can not be fully realized. However, when this pattern has been disrupted, for reasons which have been, then it requires the sacrifice of an animal to restore it. The animal's blood, offered to any Orisha and / or ancestry, is able to restore the rhythm because it is tied directly to a rhythm in the animal's body.The Santeria ceremonies performed in their own homes, for lack of Santeria temples. Meet at home or iles, which comprise both branches according to the first founders. The Santeria is part of everyday life of the believer, becomes his intermediary with the supernatural, his counselor and soothsayer.The highest grade in Santeria is the Oluwo babalawo, a babalawo who was crowned holy, holy balalawo has not only crowned but holy washing, and they receive strong powers such as witchcraft Osain to work as side pledge can not work because the babalawo will be limited to working with dead that's what working in the garment.The Santeria or olorishas are working with Afro-Cuban deity through consultation with snail or spiritual consultation, spiritual sessions in masses or as the development of each person.The oriaté is the person conducting the ceremonies of the deity (orisha, holy) so this is done correctly and it only work santeros who are committed, the new initiate and newly consecrated is called iyawo which has passed by secret rituals.The aleyos are those with some knowledge are believers, are interested in the ceremonies so I have some secrets, rituals should not be exposed to people unconsecrated ..

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