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Society of the Dead: Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba

Todd Ochoa

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780520256835

Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012

DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520256835.001.0001

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Virtudes

Virtudes

Chapter:
(p.111) 10. Virtudes
Source:
Society of the Dead
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Todd Ramón Ochoa

Publisher:
University of California Press
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520256835.003.0011

This chapter continues with the initiation rituals of a young woman named Virtudes in the Palo Monte Mundo Nuevo Guinda Vela praise house of Guanabacoa. Her blind walk exemplified the path to initiation faced by all ngueyos—one enters Palo ignorant and approaches its forces in a position of exquisite vulnerability. She was on the verge of losing her job at a hotel, accused of stealing money and sharing it with a superior, with whom she was rumored to be having an affair. Her madrina had advised her that the only way to counter the coming misfortune was to enter Ocha/Santo, but first through Palo. Ocha/Santo would steady her, and Palo would counter her enemies. It is best to join a Palo society of affliction before committing one's fate to an Ocha/Santo sovereign.

Keywords:   Virtudes, initiation rituals, praise house, ngueyos, sovereign, Palo society

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