History of Santeria - you Notice

In the ends of the century XVI began to arrive to Cuba coming blacks of the vast African continent, the the consequence of the slaves' trade. They arrived in black many America African accompanied by their respective religions, the it i today the marries of the one that knew the Santera. It was not just Cuba that these unhappy ones went to stop, great amount of them also arrived in Brazil and Haiti. The repression the one that was subject and the uncertainty of if they find in the new world, it didn't turn off the will and intelligence of the Africans. They stuck to their habits and traditions goes us to survive face the radical changes what they were subject. With them they also arrived their divinities, (that plows the same ones that you/they govern the world from his/her alone creation that, transformed by the ideologies of different cultures). The culture that had larger domain in Carabas was Yoruba, maybe due to the domain that this exercised in the western part of Africa through vast empires the the one of If, Oshogbo, Abeokut, Dahomey, Oy, Ibadan, Ogbomosho, Iwo and Ilorin that controlled Yorubas lives than 80 populations, besides many other African nations, imposing his/her great might econmico, political and soldierly. Among only many groups different from slaves that arrived to the new world, this group always stood out of the other ones, not only goes his/her religion but also goes his/her number, that was very big of facto, having been enslaved tribes whole Yoruba.

Yorubas or Lukumises always if distiguiram of the other people goes his/her intelligence, art and culture. The discovery of the assumption new world caused in Europe the great commotion and it woke up an immoderate avarice, struggling goes the domain of new lands. The interest lived lives than everything in the facto of they be lands that would increase benefits econmicos to the European powers. This drove among other things, to the very strong mercantile actividade where was marketed cocoa, coffee, cotton and to suck basically.

The search of these products was alone high that the settlers had the need to bring to America, the slave, (workforce that was used in the Iberian peninsula, Egipto, smaller Asia, Italy and France). This way they began to arrive to the new continent, great contingents of black slaves goes us to dedicate her to the hard work that the native place didn't get to support. It i believed that the first slaves that arrived in Cuba, Haiti and Brazil cam from the closest nations to the western coast of the African continent. This way, they arrived to America numerous groups of Congo, Yorubas Lucumes or Nagots, you will Plow, Uolofs, Ashantis, Guassas, Malinkeses, Fons, Adjas, Baribas, Jekris, Haussas, Ijos, Mandingos, Kwas, Bambaras, Ibos, Efiks, etc. Yorubas were the slaves that lives contributed in the new world to maintain, in all his/her orthodoxy, their ancestors' old convictions, to the they establish in Cuba, Brazil and Haiti, what today knew goes the name of Santeria in Cuba, Candombl in Brazil and the Voodo in Haiti. Of these three places that it maintained the orthodoxy of these convictions entirely, it was Cuba and very especially the municipal district of Matanzas (State of Matanzas), it goes the reason that there, when they negotiated the slave, with him it was his/her wife and their children. In other words, they respected them the family union goes that there, it was where Yorubas maintained their ancestral habits entirely.

It goes these reasons, every team that had opportunity, in the nights when the bosses slept, they practiced his/her rituals to honor their divinities, and also alone that these illuminated their roads goes like this to obtain the proteco of Orishas in that finds strange earth, that would be his/her house to break her/it of that moment. The lot of teams they made this even with the foremen's consent that you/they watched them, goes that reason got lost never many of the religious secrets that nowadays in the longer they exist in other parts. Those practices, then, they were rotundamente condemned by the settlers, being the slaves victims of strong punishments that nalgumas occasions took them to the death. Then, little by little they went being acceptances goes the bosses, live understanding, especially because the lot of teams and with the lot of secrecy, they helped those same bosses leave her of problems, and these in gratitude gave them best treatments, and better conditions. But, in Matanzas (Cuba), it seems that the modern teams didn't change in anything the old traditions; In this place, nowadays, the followers of the old faith Yoruba continues to practice the religion in the same way that four centuries ago behind in Nigeria. He/she notices: Nigeria i the country from where proves the faith of Santeria. This influence Yoruba in America gave to know divinities the: Eleggw, Obatal, Orula, Algay, Oggn, Oshosi, Shang, Yeggu, Yemay, Oshn, Oy, Mejys, Ide, Osayin, Asogwan, Buruku Sleeps, Wow Nani, Iyamio Ochoronga, etc. All of them governed by the divine trilogy formed by Olodumar, Olofi, and Olorn. In agreement with the tradition oral yoruba, it i of the knowledge that the Universe, and the earth in itself, they were created by order of this trilogy, names these emanated of the philosophy Yoruba that, if we analyze well, they plows simply sinnimos of same and only God.

Besides they were also the first ones that you/they inhabited the planet after this to be created. In another phase of the transculturizao process, the religious practice Yoruba was called in Cuba, sarcastically of" Santera", the the jest to the religion that supposedly was practiced by beings of an inferior race. He/she wants to say, the term Santera was used to minimizes the religious culture that, in spite of being African, he/she had certain similarity with the Catholicism, in the sense that believes in the existence of the single creative God and adds divinities or saints that accompany him in his/her creative aco, being them that act directamente in the human beings, helping them and guiding them. This takes us to think that everything eat from the same origin, independently of the geographical situation of the people and of the characteristics of their cultures. This terminology have been maintaining her unaffected through the team, being preserved thanks to the habit of the practicing people of this African culture. With this denomination or name, it i identified an ancestral religious practice that from the beginning it was goes the man to communicate with the force that created the first civilizations, and that you/they stay latent to help the human being. The convictions Yorubas plows older than many of the convictions that see of the Judeo-Christianity, their roots plows found in the old convictions of the Egyptian and in the old Mesopotamia. In the tradition Yoruba that we knew like Santera, in the reality calls herself Osha (Oxa) and habitually on this side of the world it i denominated Roll-neck of Osha. In spite of the similarity that we previously mentioned, the Roll-neck of Osha, inside of his/her depth, he/she have the difference marked with the Catholicism. Our Santos or African Orixs plows older and we yielded them way taxes different from the ones that adores the one of the Catholic church. The differences plows that, it goes Yoruba, his/her relationship with the Orixs goes beyond than the religious concept, it goes us Oxa i part of our daily life, and it i related with our way of living room.