Cuba is a country very unique. Their culture is, of all people who came during the years of colonization: the Chinese, Spaniards and Africans enriched. Here, the Yoruba religion practiced wide study of syncretism and its development over the centuries has held hourly. You should consider whether you are traveling to Cuba to spend your vacation time and to know that you can easily plan all aspects of the underlying syncretic the daily lives of Cubans regard.

Into the West Coast of Africa, the territory of Nigeria, is the holy city of Ife, the cradle of the world for the Africans, the birthplace of the religion, their religion, because of the infamous slave trade moved to the New World and have been here, where slave, with a body liturgical SA alone, without depending on something or maintain a relationship with the subordinate place of origin, the holy city of Ife.

The rule of OCHA in Cuba is not to the Spiritual Guide, or Obbas Government of the African continent, because it is a very Creole, sits in the belief from the African mainland. It does not depend on the patterns of high religious Obbas Nigeria and Dahomey. As a rule of OCHA, each house of the church is the basis for an individual agreement with the teachings of his ancestors. The basics of Santeria are rooted in the Catholic Church. In Cuba, by the mid-19th Century, a reorganization of Santeria for the first time we know, has led to the unification of the sects specific Orishas to the earth by black slaves from Africa, enforced from regions in which various orishas.

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