What does Chongito mean?
Is Santeria a voodoo?
Lwa, also spelled loa, the primary spirits of Vodou.
Elekes can not be touched by anyone except for priests, and if they are touched, the person touching them must clean them. The beads all have different meanings and represent different divinities of Ifa. “The elekes I have mean life, protection and one of them represents my god Oshun,” Scott said….
Women ordinarily do not confer that initiation on men. Another common initiation is the intitiation into the Seven African Powers (Elegua, Obatala, Oggun, Chango, Yemaya, Oshun, and Orunmilla). Devotees from Cuba often replace Orunmilla with Babalu-Aye. The Seven African Powers are consecrated into one eleke.
Does Santeria have a holy book?
Meaning of changuito In Mexico it is diminutive of chango means monkey, monkey or very agile person. In Argentina, diminutive of the word chango . It is used more in the interior of the country and means young, boy, etc. It is also called the supermarket cart (it also uses the augmentative “chango” which is the same).
