Word: shango
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...Shango is one of several divine spirits or saints in the Santeria tradition who possess numerous distinct attributes and are worshipped in music, dance and ritual offerings...
...sounds of praise and ecstatic celebration filled Lowell House's Junior Common Room yesterday as about 70 people joined in a tribute to Shango, the spirit of lightning and thunder in the Santeria tradition...
...festival, or bembe, began with a kneeling by the believers around the throne of Shango, petitioning his blessing and favor. The throne was draped with linens and surrounded by various plants and fruits specific to Shango...
...great power up there." Rapidez, a disciple of the voodoo-like Santero religion, believes in a good rite as much as in a good left. When one of his stable of 80 boxers fights an important match in Mexico City, the Kid dons a red kerchief, a string of Shango beads and pours cologne at the fighter's feet while conga drummers beat out a petition to the gods. A live chicken is always brought into the dressing room before the fight. Was there a fowl in the Forum? Rapidez, certain that Yankees will not understand, only gazes heavenward...
What Jones means when he uses the word black is not always evident, though it is clear that he is against anything white in the American or European sense. "O Allah O Shango (rulers of our ancient cities) O Osiris, we will be closer to you from now on,'' he cries. Elsewhere he declares, "Do not talk Marx or Lenin or Trotsky when you speak of political thinkers. Abdel Rahman, Nkrumah, Sekoti Touré, Mao, Du-Bois, Fanon, Nyerere, Garvey, Lumumba, Malcolm, Guevara, Elijah, Abu Dekr will plot, have already plotted...