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Santería, also known as Regla de Ochá or La Regla de Lucumí,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Santería )〕 is a syncretic religion of Caribbean origin which developed in the Spanish Empire among West African descendants. Santería is influenced by and syncretized with Roman Catholicism. Its liturgical language, a dialect of Yoruba, is also known as Lucumí. == History == Santería is a system of beliefs that merges aspects of Yoruba mythology, which were brought to the New World by Yoruba slaves, with Christianity and Indigenous American traditions.〔 The slaves carried with them various religious customs, including a trance and divination system for communicating with their ancestors and deities, animal sacrifice, and sacred drumming and dance. The need to preserve their traditions and belief systems in a hostile cultural environment prompted slaves in Cuba, starting from as early as 1515, to merge their customs with aspects of Roman Catholicism.〔 This religious tradition evolved into what we now recognize as Santería. In order to preserve and shield (mask) their traditional beliefs, the Lucumí people syncretized their ''Orichás'' with Roman Catholic ''saints''.〔 (As a consequence, the terms "saint" and "orichá" are commonly used interchangeably among practitioners.) Spanish colonial planters who saw their African slaves celebrating on saints' days did not know that they were actually performing rituals related to ''Orichás'', and assumed that they were showing more interest in Catholic saints than in the Christian God—hence the derisory origin of the term Santería.〔 The historical veiling of the relationship between Catholic saints and Orichás is compounded by the fact that the vast majority of ''santeros'' in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, are also Roman Catholics, have been baptized, and often require initiates to be baptized in Roman Catholicism as well. The spread of Santería beyond the Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean, including to the United States, was catalyzed by the Cuban revolution of 1959.〔 In 1974, the Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye became the first Santería church in the United States to become officially incorporated. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Santería」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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