Packet 4: Tossup 10

New members of this religion exclusively wear white for one year. (15[1]-5[1])Followers of this religion (15[1]-5[1])sometimes (-5[1])conflate Santa Barbara (-5[1])with a thunder deity named (15[1])Shango. (15[1]-5[2])This religion’s “four warrior deities” (15[1])include Ochosi (15[1])and Ogun. (-5[2])Initiates (-5[1])to this (15[1])religion (15[1]-5[1])are given (-5[1])sacred eleke beads (15[1])inside an igbodu. (-5[1])A (15[1])1993 (*) Supreme Court case (10[1])that (10[2])reversed (10[1])a ban on the right (10[1])to sacrifice (-5[1])a chicken in the city of Hialeah (-5[1])was (10[1])brought about by this religion’s (-5[1])Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye. Followers (-5[1])of this religion believe its creator god Olódùmarè (“OLL-oh-DEW-MAR-eh”) sent (10[1])spirits (10[1])called orishas (0[1]-5[1])to Earth. (10[1]-5[2])For 10 points, (-5[2])Yoruba and Catholic beliefs are (-5[1])blended in what syncretic (0[1]-5[1])Afro-Cuban (10[1]-5[1])religion? ■END■ (10[6]0[18])

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