Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Frank Baba Eyiogbe, author of the new Babalawo, Santería's High Priests.
Starting early in the morning on New Year’s Day, every online forum and blog having anything to do with Santería is abuzz with one question: “What is the Letter of the Year from Cuba?” The blog could be about the uses of fruit in Santería, but you’d still see the question in the comments. It is simply THE most awaited event in the Santería calendar. But just what IS this Letter of the Year?
Every year hundreds of babalawos, the high priests of Santería and specialists in divination, gather in Havana, Cuba to perform rituals and make offerings to dozens of