Orishas: Warrior Gods and Sirens

A short documentary film on La Sirena Botanica in San Francisco; a cursory introduction to the Afro-Cuban Lucumi sect of the Yoruba religion, aka "Regla de Ocha," but commonly known as "Santeria" (a name that was given by its detractors). It was shot with a Canon XH A1 high-definition video camera.

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[mojoruby]

didn't that shop use to be curios and candles? on divisidaro?

[Orishanla]

@mojoruby don't think so.

[Azarel63]

Santeria is stone worship its a lower aspect of religious life with the sacrificing of animals to stones that live in porcelain bowls. Its energies are real, its power is real but it can be attached to lots of lower deities and spirits. Are are different levels to reach God-Head this is the lowest form.

[Orishanla]

@Azarel63 I wouldn't call it stone worship, any more than Catholicism is stone worship, since the deities that are revered are only represented by the stones and images carved from stone. Although the "stones" themselves may reside in porcelain bowls, the orishas are not in the stones, they exist everywhere around us. The stones and the images used by Catholics have been consecrated by the orishas and saints (through their earthly intermediaries) and are, therefore, treated as holy objects.

[Orishanla]

@Azarel63 Santeria is more related to the earth and the natural world, and in this respect it is one of the oldest religions around.

[Sion6]

This is why I need to go back home. The Midwest knows nothing about this stuff! There used to be a shop on Fillmore that sold various types of bones, dried-out lizard and spider carcasses. I wonder if they're still there.

[MamiRicaaaa]

@77Apostle The Yoruba people ARE west african.

[UKGLfemaddict]

CHRISTIANITY IS A CRIME

and christian history gives evidence.

[sheenafly]

@obatalafunfun8 Totally agree with you.

[Orishanla]

@alomonty Many of them are! This one is not. They've recently remodeled and it's even nicer than before.