Believers offer fruit and  candles, and sacrifice small animals like chickens, to appease its personifications of natural forces, or orishas.
Initiates to this belief system wear ilekes and are made part of a house of the Godparents, or ile. Adherents of this system can be possessed by spirits in the "Mounting of the Horse" during a drum party, or bembé. Followers attempt to influence their lives through ancestor spirits, or egun. One figure in this religion alternates between a divine policeman and a divine protector, Elegba, and its creator figure is named Olodumare. Believers offer fruit and  candles, and sacrifice small animals like chickens, to appease its personifications of natural forces, or orishas. A mixture of Catholic and Yoruba beliefs, for 10 points, name this syncretic Caribbean religion
Initiates to this belief system wear ilekes and are made part of a house of the Godparents, or ile.
{Santería} [or {Regla} de {Ocha}; or La {Regla Lucumi}; or The Order of the Orishas; or The Order of {Lucumi}]