Candomblé Ketu  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
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as Queto, see Quito.  Candomblé Ketu (or Queto in Portuguese) is
the largest and most influential branch (nation) of Candomblé, a
religion practiced in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Its
liturgical language, known as Iorubá or Nagô, is a dialect of
Yoruba.   Queto is a system of beliefs that merges the Yoruba
mythology (brought to the New World by Yoruba slaves) with
Christianity and Indigenous American traditions.[1] Queto
developed in the Portuguese Empire. Yoruba slaves carried with
them various religious customs, including a trance and
divination system for communicating with their ancestors and
spirits, animal sacrifice, and sacred drumming and dance.[2][3]
Its origins are entwined with the religious and beneficent
brotherhoods (irmandades) organized by the Roman Catholic Church
among ethnic Yoruba slaves; the Order of Our Lady of the Good
Death (Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte), fo