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One figure in this tradition has a hundred or more epithets, each signifying a possibly non-physical "path." One of its rituals involves a wooden board onto which sixteen palm nuts are thrown, and its initiations include one named for a group called "The Warriors." Known for its divination ceremony, Ifá, its believers make offerings called ebos and believe that a spiritual energy called ashé comes from their chief god, (*) Olurun or Oludumare. Rooted in traditions of the Yoruba people, and reverent of spirits called orishas, for 10 points, name this religion for which the US Supreme Court upheld the right to religious animal sacrifice, an Afro-Cuban faith often translated "Way of the Saints."
One figure in this tradition has a hundred or more epithets, each signifying a possibly non-physical "path.
{Santería} [or {Regla} de {Ocha}; or La {Regla Lukumi}; prompt on Yoruba religion until “Yoruba-based” is read]