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Գٱí

or ·ٱ··

[ sahn-tuh-ree-uh ]

noun

  1. (sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the United States by Cuban emigrés.


Santeria

/ ˌæԳəˈɪə /

noun

  1. a Caribbean religion composed of elements from both traditional African religion and Roman Catholicism
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Գٱí1

First recorded in 1980–85; from Latin American Spanish, equivalent to santer(o) “person practicing Գٱí” ( Spanish sant(o) saint + -ero, from Latin -ary ) + -ia
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Գٱí1

American Spanish, literally: holiness
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Yet that self-titled LP went on to become a quintuple-platinum smash, spawning late-’90s alt-rock radio staples like “What I Got,” “Santeria” and “Wrong Way.”

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In a profile in The Daily News after the album’s release, the columnist Pete Hamill singled out one track, “Under the Moon and Over the Sky” — one of four songs on the album that Ms. Bofill wrote or co-wrote — as “a city dream: lyrical and defiant, with the congas rolling through the middle, and the sounds of Santeria add a thread of the unearthly.”

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Santeria devotees dance and slap drums in a museum filled with statues, paying homage to their Afro-Cuban deities.

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Experts estimate that as many, or more, also follow Afro-Cuban traditions such as Santeria that intermingle with Catholicism.

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Գٱí was born as a form of quiet resistance among Cuba’s Black communities.

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