oricha

Examples

• All

• The enclosure radiates the identifying colors of the oricha of honor.

  Academic text (1993)

• The priestess called upon the oricha to bless the community with health and prosperity.

• Gifts initially made to the oricha cycle back to refresh the givers.

  Academic text (1993)

• People who make female orichas do wear the bracelets, but of them, only the women wear them later, on the street.

  Academic text (1993)

• The prize of the prepared sweets is a large frosted birthday cake featuring the oricha of honor's name.

  Academic text (1993)

• The fruit taken home is eaten by the guests' family and friends in an exponential spreading of the oricha's blessing.

  Academic text (1993)

• The cutting and serving of the oricha's birthday cake happily borrow a secular form in dramatizing the distribution of sweet blessings.

  Academic text (1993)

• The orichas, deriving ultimately from the major orisa of Yorubaland, are customarily adorned as powerful royal presences.

  Academic text (1993)

• In many Santería ceremonies, devotees offer flowers and fruit to the oricha they are honoring.

• During the festival, the dancers performed to invite the presence of the oricha into their midst.

Synonyms

O

orisha

vsoricha

• Literature

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A spirit or god from Yoruba and West African religions that people worship

is worshipped mainly in Afro-Caribbean practices rather than West African ones

Surface Forms

Etymology