Adherents of this system can be possessed by spirits in the "Mounting of the Horse" during a drum party, or bembé.
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}]