21 Paths of 7 Rays
21 Paths of 7 Rays
6.Lucero Approves Force; the one who lives on the line of the rails.
7.Lucero Vence Guerra; the one who lives within the problems.
8. Lucero Vira Mundo; the one who lives at the gates of the cemetery.
10. Lucero Busca Buya; the one who lives at the police station.
11. Lucero New World; the one who lives in the prisons.
12. Lucero Rompe Monte; the one who lives on the roofs of the houses with others
entities and the only star that needs to be fed on top of a tile
consecrated.
13.Lucero Sabicunangusa; he is the one who lives on the riverbank and is the only one.
lucero that can eat black hen at the foot of the river.
16. Tough Star; the one who lives and how in the lagoons.
17. Lucero Tronco Malva; the one who lives at the four corners.
Tata Nganga: Also called Father Nganga. He is the owner of the Nganga.
Mother, from which the others have derived. It has recognized prestige.
to initiate neophytes into the practice of this religion, as well as to build
other ngangas. It possesses the faculty of divination.
Whirlwind Four Winds (Child of Atocha). The benevolent power of the wind.
Bad Wind (Lonely Soul). The malevolent force of the wind.
Lucero Mundo (The Baby Jesus). Beneficial force of the wind that travels through
roads.
GANG RULE
Under the name of Gangá, subgroups known as entered Cuba
carriers, free, fire, longowá, peanuts and quissí. Given the multiplicity of
aspects that existed among them, the own Don Fernando Ortiz lamented the
impossibility of locating them accurately when he wrote: "(...) but the
blacks gangá I cannot specify them without a doubt (...) [ The Black Slaves,
Havana, 1916, ch.I.
For most of the aforementioned subgroups, it is perfectly fine.
clearly of Senegambian origin, but the so-called maní, quissí, and longowá
They evidently cannot be located anywhere other than in Congolese territory. From now on
from the studies of John Grake (Specimens of Dialects, London, 1849),
Delafosse (Comparative vocabularies..., Paris, 1904), Birger (From the Nile to
Gulf of Guinea..., Paris 1894, volume II), and especially the
monumental work "The Human Races" by Federico Katze (Barcelona,
1888); I had to come to the conclusion that those gangá settlements in
bantu culture zones responded to various waves of migration
occurring around the mid-18th century A.D.
The House of the Gangá Longowá in Perico, the only temple of such religion
Afrocuban existing in Cuba and possibly the last stronghold of culture
Senegambian in the American continent, is significant for all of this.
special importance. Most researchers considered it extinct
presence of this submandinga culture in the Island of Cuba, until in
In 1983, Professor Israel Moliner detected this exceptional house-temple in
the town of Perico, located about 80 kilometers southeast of the city
from Matanzas.
Through the oral traditions of the group, we have been able to determine that
they integrated the main core of the equipment of a small factory of
sugar called Santa Elena, which existed about 3 km from Perico.
Once slavery was abolished on the Island in 1886, most of those
gangá settled in the mentioned town, locating their main house in the
Clemente Gómez street corner with González. In the first decade of the century
They moved to San Juan corner with Suárez, where still
stay.
They have survived by maintaining their beliefs in a strictly
familiar, to the extent that we can find it in all its members
any of the following four last names: Diago, Lescayos, Figueroa or
Lauzán.
Among them, the mark of time is evident, with the irreparable
loss of native values not transmitted from one generation to another,
as well as a strong influence of the Rule of Osha or Santería; being the
most significant:
Loss of the own divination system that has been replaced by the
use of the Obbi (coconuts) and Diloggún (cowries) methods of Santería.
5. Zarabanda Ceja Monte; lives at the corner of the seventh door of the
mountain.
7. Zarabanda Sun Sun Vira Vira; like at the foot of the palm.
19. Zarabanda Insunso Carire; like when there are no women present.
20. Zarabanda of Lebankita; like deer, balsam cat, and pig to the
twelve o'clock at night.
21. Zarabanda Gierve Gierve; like a bull, owl and he is the only one who eats
jicotea
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Fan: efu
Open: wuanka, duilando
Thorn: nguigo, nguino
Grandfather: okay, chicken
Oil: sushi roll
Activity: kianyangla
Forward: let’s go
Guess: vititimenso (with magic mirror), vititi nkobo(s) (with snails)
Fortune teller: gossip, my mother, the children of sambidilango (view of
knowledge
Adorno: butan dumba, mona
Africa: wankila
Water: gentle, gentle, mass, month, and mass
Coconut water: mashed kamputo
Sea water: kalunga, galunga, masa kalunga
River water: lango cholan
malafo, masa agangulero
Air: I feel, I am looking for
Aji: filmed
Garlic: amputated, absent
Alamo: macho, mecho
Basil: medalo, guanguao
Alcohol: bad effects, consequences
Cotton: duambo
Almond: eguinse
Alta: simane, sambi, sambia, nsambi, nsambia
Altar: my brother's name, my sister's name
Loved: you
But: don't weep
Dawn: the call of the spirits
Yellow: moamba
Tie: kuta, nkuta
Friend: I like her, she
Wankasi
Friends: bakundi
Amulet: makuto
Ancestor: bakula
Ancestor: bakula
Here: munankuto
Spider: masu
tree
Arena: little wolf
Ridges: ngungu
kneel: fukama
Rice: eloso, loso, yaloso
Wasp: supiwanpungo
Help: kawanko
Quicksilver: where to fend off
Blue: jacket
to rise
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Aloe: soyanga
Dance: kina kuame
Dance: kizumba
Whale: lauriako
Flag: Kanda, Lelensuata
To bathe: minia
Bathroom: room
Boat: indeed, a boat
Belly: malusa, kibumo
Enough: mbongo
Baston: cheating
trash, garbage
Shoes: to learn
baptism
Drink: mu
Drink: chamba, malafo
Blessing: diangansua
Little bug: bitilengo, (nfiman)
Bug(s): munfuira, (muninfuise)
Good: kiambote
sanso, nsanso
White: the world
Boca: naked, my mouth, my body, chicken, mine
Pocket: kuto, nkuto, munankuto
Pretty: smile, laugh
shoe: sandal
throw: yosa
Bottle: fumbo, buate
Arm: limbo batolembo
Brush: sama
Witch: guenge, nguenge
Brujeri: kindamba, mayombe, mumbanda
Sorcerer: father nganga, father nkisi, father ndoki, father mayombe, nbandoki,
ndongo, ngangulero
Rude
Bueno: bundu, lulendo, mbote
Donkey: kombo bongala
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Gentleman: yes, buddy
Devil's Horse: great fighter, strong leader
Horse: batu, nialo, nialu, fato, nfato, nkako
Medium horse: ngango ngombo, nganga ngombo
brag, head, brain
Cabildo: municipal
kundia, kasa, kualikilo
Calabaza: malampe, nale, makuke, maluke
pot, boiling pot, stew pot
fuka, mfuka
Hot: dumpling
heat
To silence: perhaps
Street: nsila, sila
Be quiet: let it pass
bed
Shrimp: provides, does not provide
Walk: kiamene, kuenda, kiako
way, path, road
bell: horn
Field: ngongo
herb, plant, leaf, in the morning, in the evening
Canasta: when
lock, clasp
Candela: bansa, bansua, nbansua, mboso, ntuya, baso, mbaso
Cinnamon: mokoko wando
Sing: nfindan
Song: nfinda, mambo
Cane: Mikanga, misanga, muengue, marioka
Sugar cane
brave cane: matombe
Canyon: matende
Gentle, kind
Caraco: signature, mask, simbu
Carbon: this
Jail: we are doing, it's a hard life
Meat: mbisi, bisi, mbifi, bifi
meme, dimeme
Letter: mukanda, nkanda
House: here, we are
Married: nkla
Marriage: kusankana, longo
Cascara: lele
Fourteen: kumiya
Hunter: death, death
hunt
Cazuela: balongo, balonga, kalubango, mulanganga, guincho, nguincho
Onion: grind it, alulose, abubosa
Ceiba: nsambi, ngundu, nsambia
nfinda ntoto, kunanso, kunansinda
Ash: bad things, all things
Brain: Samidilango
Blind: we are hungry, I was hungry
Cielo: nsulu, sulu
One hundred: victory
cigar, swimwear
Cigarillo: a small cigar
Cimarron: let it rain
Five: smoke
waist
mbansa
Nail: honey dew
Charge: igana
Kitchen: lick
Cook: do
cook
Coco: those who steal, they suffer, children of the earth
Crocodile: I am swimming
take: kuata
to take: felling
I take: guafakulo
Collar: they say it is for a neck, it adorns the neck
Running: tongue
Running: san san
Skull: kiyumba
crucifix
crucifix, mark, bow
Fourth: suako
Four: iya, tattoo, efua
Four corner: dilu, ndilu
Four winds
Cuba: Cuba, joyful
Cubano: wanfuto
Cockroach: flying, dark
knife, blade, cutlass
body: nitu, masimenga, fumanguame
cave
Care: kirio, nkirio
mbamba, nsima
Healer: turn the light, open the door
Goat: goat, sheep, ram, kid, male, female
Chusma: scum
Gossiper: I have no idea
Kid: watoko, guatoko
silly, fool
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Dame: kuende, atuya, tambula, samba, mpandika
Dar: Cuba
Damage: diamond, quality
mioko, mioka, nguika
Dedos: nlembo, limbo
Melt: languor
wish: ntondele
Slowly: softly, softly
Awake: wiriko
to let go: sakri, sakrila
Day: of, moon, diamond
Diablo: witch, kimbundo, shepherd, miniampungo, kachanga, father lubuisa
tamarind, doki
tooth
Ten: kumi
Sixteen: kumisabami
Seventeen: kumisabuare
Eighteen: kuminona
Nineteen: kimifua
money, nsimbo, simbo, simbongo, nbongo
God: nsambi, sambi, nsambia, sambia
Gods: mpungos
God: mpungu
Sweet: kumiyole
Dolo: sky, moon
Sunday: diansona
Maiden: little voice
Where: kilumbo
leak, sole
those: yole, tauo, yari
It hurts: yele
Owner: I am the one
gangan gumbo
sweet, sweetness
During the day: kunanga
During the night: to be mischievous
Sleeping: talenkendo
to rise
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Age: kisoko
the: death, life
she: I am tired
Elephant: powerful, majestic, vibrant, strong spirit, wise
Pregnant: loyu
In love: yambisa
Goblin: evil
To light: ntuya
Light up: songuila lumuine
Energy: my own
kuankumero, yari yari, yemba, yembo
Sick: yera, yari, yanyara, tubelanga
Anger: fula botan kando
to go
Enterra: furnace
Burial: the earth receives the body
Enter: city, I will go
Envy: kimpa, kimpalu
Epilepsy: nianga
Erection: I don't know
Slave: mabika, mubika, muika, mbaki, musensa
Broom: monsi, nmonsi, kamba, baombo
Esconder: kabansiero, kabanchielo
Shotgun: scatter, to scatter
Escribir: masanika, chikuere, mukanda
Listen to me: guise
Listen: sikilimambo
musuluwandio
Mirror: visit me less
Glasses: brightness
Espina: I want this, right now
Spirit: I am here, I am alive, I am the one, the very one, the true one, the essence.
kindoki, kilumbo
Spirit: nfumbi
Spirit: musanga
Spirit (evil: witch)
Wife: nkana
Corner: pambian nsila
to be: diata
I am: year
Stomach: good feeling, discomfort
Stars: buetete, buete, tetenwangam tetemboa, tango bonansisa,
to be stubborn
Study: kundilonga
Excrement: tufe, tufi, ntufi
Extranjero: lunwanda, lunwando
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belt, band
Fallesio: act with caution
Fame: bango
Family: kanda
Ghost: kinkindiki
please: ask, I ask, thank you
Railroad: I guide you, remember the day
Festival: sikiringoma, kisobiakia, kisingokia ngola, bangalan
Party (dance): we will dance
Fiesta, (music): mumboma
Company: patibemba
Date: weekend, July
Loosely: your bed
fire: stick, torch, flame, ember, charcoal
Fornicate: timbe, fifigita oyongo
Bean: guandi, nkita lumbe
Red beans: guandu mayonda lele
Black beans: madenso, mandenso
Fruit: machafio
Papaya: machafio kisondo
Fire: lemon, bukula
Strength: strength in basketball, unity in strength, perseverance
Foundation: songue, munalanga, pungun banso, yaya wanga
Funeral home: yemba, the body
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Cookie: pogitana
hen: nsusu, sunsuketo, susukeke, wanambolo
Gallo: every heart, every journey, every story, every
Hook: samio
Goose: wankala
scribble: mombala
Gato: kimbungo, chiwambe, fumancano, fundiankane, guai,tualengo
Magical cat: bumba
Fat: buamato
Gracias: ndondele, ntandole, tondele, ntandala, moana, nkimandi, wanka,
Child, I am here
Senior: ntukua
Group: krikoria
Guanajo: nsawawo, asonwa, asowa
Guard: it’s okay
War: mulonga, gongomakarira
Guitar: lambrile matoko, sansimatoko
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speaks: bobandinga, boba, mboba
to do: kuila
axe
Flour: yes, no
Henbra: I don't know, I don't understand
I
Church: place of worship, gathering place
Ignore: Dialamenso
Incense: I'm a little confused
Indio: minganga badigaso, yamboaki
Hell: the land of the cursed, where the tormented wander
Initiation: mpangui sama, kirano, malevolent goganti
Intelligence: ntu
To leave: I'm leaving, I'm going
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soap
Jar: disanga
Boss: mbansa, ngumbula, fumo, nfumo, npangala
Ginger: ntua, tua
water, its own fruit, its own fruit
nkufo, guru, fuko, sarakunseko
Jimaguas: a big noise of the rabbit
Jimagu: mpansa
Hunchback: guatekama
Young man: stop, run away, let it go
Jubo: five, four, three
Together: ambiantsa
Oath: kimbo, Kimba
dundalonga, fuambata, nfuambata
Jutia: squirrel, it seems, that bird
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Labor: kebula
Bark: mufe
Lizard: diansila
Tears: to be born
Laguna: a place of peace, the language of the river
Large: mboriyandi
Lavar: a shower, a bath
milk
Owl: small dusk, big night, many shadows
Far: I want to talk
Lion: nsombo, kiandongondo
Levanter: Sangula
Get up: sikama
License: gonad dairy, dude
Lemon: small, spherical
The cleaning: living room, room
Clean: nsaku
crazy: fuati
Loma: to lie down
Loro: I will tell you
Lucero: bright star, constellation
Moon: love, love, my heart, when the sun sets
Monday: soup
Light.: yours, munia
Rain: rain, I cover myself
Rain: long
Cry: masanga, samba, sambiayaya
fill: summit
Crying: my road, my path
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Machete: front
Wood: tree, forest
mother: yay, ngua, yeye, kuandi
Godmother: do you want it, do you need it
Magic: kimpa
Maja: everyone, person, friend, brother
Mother, father, child samba
know, speak, slowly
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Mano: inkuako, blanki, nguika, mbemba, mbembo
Manteka: what, when
Tomorrow: tomorrow
March: Kalunga
Husband: masculine, my own, blessing
Tuesday
hammer
Matar: fritters
Mayombe: mayombe
father of spirits, father of the supernatural
Medicine: charm
Lie: bamboo
Liar: bambunguei
Mesa: brandy
book, strong heartbeat, song, rhythm
Look: ground, moon, book
vegetable
Mystery: limbo, nkui
mountain
Mount: to find, to not find
to die: kufua
Moscow: good, well
lulendo, kangoma
Much: bobe, ingui
Death: bad
Dead: corpse, sorcerer, elder, ancestors
Desire: basket, food
bemba, panguila, npanguila
World: ntoto
Muscle: gungafuto, minwi, pungui
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Nacer: sapunto
Nadir: guanbinda
Nalgas: fembe, bungonani, matako, nfembe
Orange: balala, muamba, nbegfo
Nose: masuru, masuri
Business: mbembo
Black: my friend, hello, goodbye
No: my ass
Girl: I love you, I love the boy
Child: Moana Luke, basicanda
No: what, child
Night: kalungo, buna fukua
lusina
Us: tutu
Clouds: you are lying.
knot: nkango, gango
Nine: wow, from the mendako
New: lulend penfialo
Numbers: one-yesi, two-yole, three-itatu, four-iya, five-ifumo, six-
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Bishop: smoke, no smoke
Eight: what
Ears: I kill
I hear: I am
Hear: little one, shake it, little insect
Eyes: mensu, mato
Ear: tuto, nwenga
Pee: long banga
Dark: grave, mfuembo, mpimpa.
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Father: dad
Payment: futeno
Father: you
sunso, nui, sunsun
dinga
I kill
Palace: municipal
Palero: father spirit
Palm: lala, mamba
Palo: kunie, nkunia
Paloma: We are going home
Pan: hello
Pantaloon: traditional, old man
Panther: yamakara, kombo bongala
Handkerchief: mbenso, dilanso
Paper: tear the page
For: duala, nduala
Wall: lumbar
To give birth: when it is time
Weaning: complementary food
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Rabo: force, biocenter
bag
Rana: lord
Rats: menstrual, recreational
Mouse: ntongo
Thunder: I am coming
Collect: kuabilanga
Memories: I miss you.
Round: to surround
Return: lurie
Relo: quality
protection: makuto
Portrait: dimbo
Rezo: the big boss, things
Rey: king, who
Rico: money
Rincon: what's up
Kidney: mbanga
Rio: lawyer, prosecutor
mbuaki, mengu
To break: diboa
Clothes: nguelele, bebe, mbeke
Roto: kitutu
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Saturday: wengue
Saber: mine, bed
know: bika
Wisdom: teacher, advisor
wise: nfumo
ntutu, fuko
Sal: trick monkey
Saliva: come
Health: lumbar, peace be upon you
Blood: menga
Saint: deity
frog, frog
I: lelepum
Sowing: nfuri, nfurintoto
Mr.: mpangui
Silence: mambe
chair: kimbundu, luanda
gang: light, mind, health
ntango, tango
Soldier: mubuonga, masoari
Solitude: moana kaka
Hat: musumbo
Rise: band
Soil: ntore
Dream: when, it is
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tobacco
drum, talking drum
Taro: a type of yam
Cup: put
Ceiling: Iulia
Canvas: kangaroo
Temple: nso
Have: simbanka
Time: mbu, tango malanda
Earth: ntoto
Tiger: okay
Scissors: nsama
Ink: fuchsia, fuchsia ink
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Tiro: world
Tokar: takalunga
Everyone: lumbar
Toma: harvest
Take: tambula
Fool: you
Torment: mbula
work
Calm down: here
Thirteen: to unite
Train: nkumbre
Sadness: kikenda
to stumble
Trueno: kuankila
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One: yasi
Nail: kiala
Grape: motherf***er
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Cow: no, no way
Vago: attention
Brave: yen yen
Valla: to go
nkubri, kalunga
Vase: unyielding
Vela: go away
Wake: also
Venedo: without, dog
Seller: ntuenda
come: mbanga
Truth: mambianga
Green: about
boar: guangangulo
Go: to go, to put, to say
old woman: who is bomb, kiboba
Old: island, school
Wind: nfinda, impenso
Belly: munaluza
bad, ugly
Vira: bilula
turn: biringuer
Visit: without
Live: buriri
Volar: fold
You: I will
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Yerba: nymph
Herbs: musanga
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Shoe: nkandu, mamabo