Ilé Tüntun visits Matanzas, 2013
Ilé Tüntun
In July 2013, Frank
Cabrera-Suarez "Obeché" organized a trip to Matanzas city along with two
Egungun body-masks and batá drums in order to greet Ifá practioners. They
visited the 'ilé' (house) of Jorge-Luis León-Marrero in the barrio of Pueblo
Nuevo, Matanzas -- he is a local representative of the Ilé Tüntun movement
to realign Cuban Ifá practice with that of West Africa. The many followers
of Ifá in Matanzas went prostrate in the street in reverence for the Egungun
masks that represent important ancestors within the Ifá practice in Cuba.
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