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A few highlights from Afrolatino Travel’s Tambor-Rumba Community Day we had on December 30th. We are having another one on Thursday, March 17th, 2016 and Friday, May 27, 2016. We also take participants to Matanzas to learn about the history and contemporary manifestations of Ñañiguismo aka Abakua, an AfroCuban male “secret” society.
Our local guide is a practitioner of Yoruba and Abakua as well as a “son of Añá,” what Yoruba religion drummers are sworn as. We had an amazing fellowship! Our madrina, Franci, opened her home to us and the tamboreros even helped in prepared our amazing meal! Ashe! Co-edited by Nehad Khader and Rashid Zakat, Shot by Rashid Zakat
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Santeria
Performed by Sublime
Written by Bradley Nowell, Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson
From Wikipedia: The song includes the bassline and guitar riff from Sublime’s earlier song Lincoln Highway Dub from the 1994 album Robbin’ the Hood. Santeria is an Afro-Cuban religion, practiced in Cuba, South Florida, and exported to other areas in the Caribbean. It tells of a jealous ex-boyfriend who is planning to take revenge on the man who stole his girlfriend. The music video was filmed in 1997 after the death of Bradley Nowell, who makes a cameo via stock footage. During the video, his beloved Lou Dog is seen along with the rest of Sublime remembering him. The song reached number three on the US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks.
Oh, Bradley… The story I tell to anyone that listens is how he got the stuff he overdosed on in Chico CA. And where he got it from. And how that piece of filth that sold it to him is still a free man. But, since I can’t verify the story, I won’t name names here (Libel is a hell of a thing, you know).
But about Santeria. I was pondering a Sublime song for SotD on the way down to work this evening, and when I mentioned needing to write this, a coworker suggested Santeria. It’s a fun little tale of stolen love with a dash of planned revenge thrown in. Personally, I can identify extra strongly with the sentiment. The lost and stolen love and her new man who needs to have “that barrel straight down Sancho’s throat.” Well, I don’t feel quite that strongly about it these days.
Yeah, yeah. Great song, fun little Ska Punk vibe. Sublime was fun, and this fits right in with that.
I don’t practice Santeria
I ain’t got no crystal ball
Well, I had a million dollars but I, I’d spend it all.
If I could find that Heina, and that Sancho that she’s found.
Well, I’d pop a cap in Sancho and I’d slap her down.
What I really wanna know, mah baby, mmmm…
What I really wanna say I can’t define.
Well, it’s love, that I need. Oh…
My soul will have to wait till I get back, to find a Heina of my own.
Daddy’s gonna love one and all.
I feel the break, feel the break, feel the break and I gotta live it up.
Oh, yeah, uh huh.
Well, I swear that I.
What I really wanna know, ah baby.
What I really wanna say I can’t define, got love make it go.
My soul will have to…
[Instrumental break]
Oh…
What I really wanna say, mah baby.
What I really wanna say is I’ve got mine, and I’ll make it, oh yes I’m coming up.
Tell Sanchito that if he knows what is good for him he best go run and hide.
Daddy’s got a new Forty-Five.
And I won’t think twice to stick that barrel straight down Sancho’s throat.
Believe me when I say that I got somethin’ for his punk ass.
What I really wanna know, mah baby.
Oh, what I really wanna say is there’s just one, way back, and I’ll make it, yeah.
My soul will have to wait, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Irosun Meji gets the rep of being a mostly negative odu, but it also stresses the potential for spiritual revelation and empowerment.
Traditionally Irosun Meji spoke on ones experience consisting of deceit, disappointment and loss (stealth, hidden attacks etc..). This Odu is affiliated with Osun, and the ancestors as well. Folks who got this Odu would generally be suggested to propitiate their ori and possibly dedicate their professional life to Ifá if possible, or to regularly feed/serve Ifá to keep life in balance.
Ifá however, focuses on ascending through revelation and spiritual development. Irosun meji’s marks in the upper half, the single “ I ” represent the free flowing, expansive energies. These are the easy blessings, we have. The lower marks with the “ I I “ represents the contractive energies that impose itself as an obstacle. This would tell us that the person at first has experienced blessings, and that the obstacles imposed come from a certain lack of gradual maturity. The ancestors come into play here. Irosun is a reference to the menstrual blood which is also affiliated with the ancestors. Maturity comes when we are connected to the ancestors, who are the collective experiences of our orí which expresses itself as the gut feeling/ intuition. The person who receives this Odu often needs to reflect and listen to their intuition. The issue with the person who receives this Odu is often that they are aware of their circumstances, but find it difficult to act accordingly. It’s possibly one of the most difficult of the principle 16 odu manage. The person who is given this Odu through a reading is someone who might find themselves feeling unlucky, or cursed, but in fact theres a super hero within them waiting to be let out. It makes for the type of person that can create the most positive of changes in their own lives.
(Everything I say on Odu, is my own, personal, *novice* take on it)
