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.

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.

On one such visit, Guelperin invited me along to a drumming for Oshun, the feminine orisha of love and marriage. Oshun was going to “mount” a person and speak to the assembled. It would be a ...