Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity, for example, blended with the golden deity, Oshun. “It would mix ... 70% in Cuba practice some version of Santeria or similar African-based religions.

Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity, for example, blended with the golden deity, Oshun. “It would mix ... 70% in Cuba practice some version of Santeria or similar African-based religions.

Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity, for example, blended with the golden deity, Oshun. “It would mix and mix … through this Catholic virgin, they would speak to their African saints ...

In Santeria, they offered coins and prayed to ... But they knew it was Oshun who listened. And then they took orisha’ stones — consecrated rocks that link mortals to the gods — and sprinkled ...

Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity, for example, blended with the golden deity, Oshun. “It would mix ... 70% in Cuba practice some version of Santeria or similar African-based religions.

Oshun is the feminine spirit of fertility, and of water, the giver of all life. In Cuba, Yoruba theology is contained within Vodú, a variant of Santeria in which dance is incorporated into rituals.