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Patakines and foundation of Ifá / Rogelio Gómez Nieves ; traducción al inglés: Lissette de Armas Ramos.

LIBRA BL2532.I33 G6613 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gómez Nieves, Rogelio, 1973- author.
Contributor:
Ramos, Lissette de Armas, translator.
Language:
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Ifa--Cuba.
Ifa.
Folk literature, Yoruba--Cuba.
Folk literature, Yoruba.
Cuba--Religion.
Cuba.
Ifa (Religion).
Religion.
Physical Description:
350 pages ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
[La Habana Vieja] : Ediciónes Cubanas, Artex, 2016.
Summary:
""Patakines are just stories, morals, legends, and para- bles; oral and written narratives that we have inherited from our African ancestors. hese date back to ancient times like the world itself and have certain links with all what exist -animals, plants, human beings and even the orishas themselves". The present volume begins this way, which submerges us in that universe of traditions bearing an invaluable testimonial value, repositories of solid documental support (they have been extracted from books of Ifå), where the reader will be able to find wisdom, depth ideas, useful advice, interpretation of the ancestral issue; a very peculiar philosophy oflife; the discovery of a substantial and rich African custom, which is the legacy of the Cuban culture and, also, the review that many of the deities of such a religion wanted to bequeath us through their earthly links and their connections here in the earth."--Page 4 of cover.
"'Los patakines no son más que relatos, moralejas, leyendas, parábolas, narraciones orales y escritas que hemos heredado de nuestros antepasados africanos. Estos datan de tiempos tan antiguos como el mundo mismo y tienen ciertos y determinados vínculos con todo lo existente--animales, plantas, seres humanos y hasta con los mismos orishas.' Así comienza el presente volumen, el cual nos sumerge en ese universo de tradiciones, de inestimable valor testimonial, depositarias de apoyatura documental sólida (han sido extraídas de libros de Ifá), en las que el lector podrá hallar sabiduría, profundidad, consejos útiles, intelección de lo ancestral; una muy peculiar filosofía de vida; el hallazgo de una africanía sustanciosa, fértil, de la que la cultura cubana es legataria y, también, el repaso de lo que muchas de las deidades de tal panteón desearon legarnos a través de sus enlaces terrenales, de sus conexiones, aquí, en la tierra"--Back cover.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9789597230717
9597230712
OCLC:
1131864372

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