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WHO IS OLOFI ?

If we have said that Oloddumare is the creation, the perfection of all the human; then we must ourselves fix that Olofi, this word that begins with the Olo syllable, that means: extension, expansion; and it concludes with si'iaba Fi, that it means: pintica, manchita within the great extension or space of this world. It is why Olofi comes to turn out to be the first person in charge before OLODDUMARE of all the heads and things that exist in this world and with power on the other saints of Deity already known, shows Religion, as they are: ODDUA, OLOCUN, ORICHAOCO and LLEGUA. Olofi is the direct head of all the things that are in direct relation with OLODDUMARE, on the Earth face.

And it is why all the saints must count on the approval of OLOFI, for the accomplishment of all the things and acts of the life. OLOFI is an Obatala', but it is not a Obatala' that so or but as person can have, even though its image or consecrated symbol is in our Religion.

Logically, the image or the consecrated secrets to OLOFI, it can have a OMOCOLABBA. And who is the OMOCOLABBA that we have in Cuba? None.

Because not even we have one single one of the mayores Olu'os that prevail in Oru'miia, that is the sign by ei as is conceptuado like OMOCOLABBA. To that person it is necessary to teach all the secrets to him and to prepare to him properly in Ocha and, later to happen through the same process in then Oru'mila and, would be when this person would come to be a true OMOCOLABBA.

However, that Olu'o can have Olofi that within all the babalaos is he, the greater one in Oru'mila. Then into the hands of this one it will be OLOFI and take the qualifying one of OBBA, in the Olu'os and for us the Olo-Ochas; the Oni-Chango' is called to exert the OMOCOLABBA functions.

A OLOFI him cannot replace no Santo in their functions before OLODDUMARE, this world. It it cannot either have no woman.

Nowadays, we were that to open the Year, do not know to whom, nor to where, we are going to go; because all the Olu'os has OLOFI. By regulating all those that do not understand dialecto Lucumi' well, the same give him to call to OLODDUMARE, OLOFI, that OLORUN.

For these, all have the same meaning, not being thus; because widely it is explained in this book, who is OLODDUMARE, and who is OLOFI. And, now we are going to explain, who is OLORUN. In some parts of the African continent, the natural ones do not know, nor adore another God, that the Sun and, as it is called LORUN, and this one intimately is bound to Oloddumare, is thus takes the qualifying one of OLORUN.