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Գٱí
[ sahn-tuh-ree-uh ]
noun
- (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
- a Caribbean religion composed of elements from both traditional African religion and Roman Catholicism
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of Գٱí1
Example Sentences
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.”
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.”
Santeria devotees dance and slap drums in a museum filled with statues, paying homage to their Afro-Cuban deities.
Experts estimate that as many, or more, also follow Afro-Cuban traditions such as Santeria that intermingle with Catholicism.
Գٱí was born as a form of quiet resistance among Cuba’s Black communities.
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