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- noun Plural form of
orisha .
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Examples
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When the concert concentrated more on Afro-Cuban music, as on "Changó" and the encore "Los Caminos," both graced by Bambolé enchanting bata drum polyrhythms and sacred chanting to various Afro-Latin orishas, Valdés's goodwill was at its most persuasive.
In concert: Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers at the Warner Theatre Click Track 2010
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When the concert concentrated more on Afro-Cuban music, as on "Changó" and the encore "Los Caminos," both graced by Bambolé enchanting bata drum polyrhythms and sacred chanting to various Afro-Latin orishas, Valdés's goodwill was at its most persuasive.
From Chuco Valdés mixes Cuban and American jazzy idioms at the Warner Theatre John Murph 2010
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In Candomblé, it is believed that some essence of the sacrificed animal 'feeds' one of several supernatural deities known as orishas, who will in turn attend to the believers 'requests and desires, healing diseases and solving financial or personal problems.
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First she prays, both to the Christian god of her Irish ancestors and to the orishas of her African ancestors — the latter she is less familiar with, but getting to know.
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I have one Cuban friend who's into H.P. Lovecraft like crazy and another who's convinced that the ancestors and the orishas speak to all of us.
Junot Diaz discusses his first two books, Drown and the The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2010
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It's inspired by issues intertwined with the 1987 decision by the city council of Hialeah, Fla., to ban animal sacrifice, prompted by a proposed church and school run by devotes of Santeria, whose worship of their orishas at times took sacrificial form.
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Santeria recognizes a single supreme being who created the world, but holds that God delegated orishas, or spirits, with human characteristics to watch over it.
Cuba's Real Religion 2008
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Because worshiping orishas was heresy to Catholics, practitioners identified each with a Catholic saint.
Cuba's Real Religion 2008
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The rhythms used ceremonially to summon orishas have long been embedded in Cuban music; now dance bands openly make Santeria references.
Cuba's Real Religion 2008
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Nearly every dance band has a few songs to the orishas, the traditionalAfrican deities of the country's folk religion, Santeria, a combination of spirit worship and Roman Catholicism.
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