Quotes About Santeria

I'm a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.

Got a buddy in the NOPD who says there's a rumor you're with some private agency. Who? (Brady) And I slice open chickens at midnight to sacrifice to the great gods of Santeria. (Terri)

The corruption investigation wasn't derailed, merely reassigned. Nevertheless, Avila was convinced that the santería spell was a success.

Brujería, which combines Aztec myth, European witchcraft, and Cuban Santería, has Mexican cultural and religious roots. In the sixteenth century, when Spanish priests declared the pagan goddess Toantzin to be a Roman Catholic, Toantzin's priestesses went underground and became brujas.

Santería was traditionally an unacknowledged and underappreciated aspect of what it meant to be Cuban. Yet the syncretism between the Yoruban religion that the slaves brought to the island and the Catholicism of their masters is, in my opinion, the underpinning of Cuban culture. Every artistic realm--music, theater, literature, etc.--owes a huge debt to santería and the slaves who practiced it and passed it on, largely secretively, for generations.