A group of Sacreds of the Cuban Santería prophesied for the 2021 “a good health and safety”, as well as an increase in natural disasters, migratory flu, political tensions and the delusional highs in the world, between on the traditional “Letter of the Year”.
The message, elaborated by Babalawos (Sacred Dates of Ifá or the Santería) members of the Yoruba Association of Cuba, contains a series of predictions and advices for the new year of hopeful numbers of Afro-Cuban religions and curiosities read by them sociales.
Debiting the sanitary emergence provoked by the coronavirus contagion pandemic, the ceremonies to elaborate the “Letter of the Year” would only call for a number of victims who did not pass the centenary, explaining the Association that has suede principle in La Habana.
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In 2021, the power of Olokun will reign supreme, reigning in the oceans and dealing with the death that proportions health, prosperity and material evolution and is considered among the most mysterious of the Yoruba Pantheon.
His companion will be Ochún, an orisha who secrets with the Virgin of the Cobridity of Cobre, the patron saint of Cuba for the Catholic religion, and who for the sanctuary represents the kingdom of the dull water, the trees, the mantles and the rivers, and the personification of love and fertility.
The text of the “Letter”, based on an adivinatory system of Afro-Cuban cults, advises on the increment of infectious, gastrointestinal and nervous system diseases.
In the social order, too, alerts about increases in support such as political, social and religious tensions that can lead to conflict, criminal offenses, deaths due to illegal emigration, territorial violations, false laws and sexual relations.
In its list of recommendations of Ifá llaman’s sacerdotes to the global society that analyzes the highest level of corruption that exists in all spheres, and families include “respect, education and love” for work.
His designations also include maintaining hygienic-sanitary facilities, respecting the steps taken to avoid problems with the judiciary or raising the domestic economic planning.
For more than three decades, the sacraments of the island’s sanctuary have been reunited in December to define in the “Letra del Año” the directors who govern the year enter and announce to the people, all before the males augurios.
The Afro-Cuban religion, one of the most sacred cults with more practitioners in Cuba, went to the island with the African slaves in the finals of the XVIII and was transmitted through generations of oral tradition.
Songs, rituals, conjuros, baile, music and victims form part of the religious legacy, which has in its teaching one of its principal components.