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- Marta Moreno Vega , The Altar of My Soul
"We generally accept that there is a divine, invisible
intelligence at work on
our behalf We sense it Santeria provides the !eans to live in
the sacred!o!ent and benet fro! divine energy #ather than viewing
our
pre!onitions, drea!s, and sacred !o!ents as e$traordinary,
Santeria
teaches us that we are protected by guardian angels and orishas,
who !ake
the e$traordinary see! ordinary
%ative A!erican religions worship every aspect of nature, and
their
a&r!ation that we live on sacred Mother 'arth is si!ilar to
Santeria(s belief
that all aspects of nature are divine Asian religions identify
the energy force,
or )i, as well as the divine principle of yin-yang, our
e)uivalent of ache and
the positive and negative balance e!bodied in the orisha,
'llegua *n
+udais!, practitioners sacrice and cleanse with ani!als as we
do, and they
also burn candles to create a spiritually charged environ!ent
during rituals *
always !ake co!parisons between other religions and !y own,
because
they show we are not so dierent as we appear to be"
- Marta Moreno Vega , The Altar of My Soul
