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ORICHAOCO

Orichaoco, powerful Santo who represents the Earth. This Santo is masculine, is the husband of Olocu'n. He has two characteristics: one, by day and another one at night; by day he is a perfect, pretty man, of fine modales; however at night, it is the personification of death because he disguises himself: Icu' afefe oroggoddo.

At the heart of the earth he is called Oroiña, Oro'o: to drive, to move, to turn; Iña: continuous movement or of rotation. This Santo drives spiritually, its reason why the African use as symbol a roofing tile with one penca of yagua marked or other analogous things of which they are used in the ceiling of a house ; but with seven rays, or they are horizontal or vertical. These rays represent a Ordun, that is, 7 Oddi', in dileggu'n means: Sky, Water and Earth. That is the sign that is put to him to the roofing tile or device that is used for this.

Their Alle' of the secret,  is snails forms of tirabuzo'n, that have vertical rays in different colors.

  dilogu'n and his ota'.

SOMUGGAGGA,

-        SOMU: breast, suckle;

-        GGAGGA: Great one.

ACARO,

-        ACA; on or putting;

-        RO: derivative of Oro'o, Action.

ORICHAOCO, THESE TWO PERSONS: ONE REPRESENTS THE DAY AND THE OTHER THE NIGHT, IT IS THE SAME ORICHAOCO, " ICU AFEFE AROGODDO GAI OLOTIGUARO "
 

Oroiña, says that she is the mother of Aggallu', then you know if you have read " the LUCUMI WITHIN REACH OF ALL ", that the symbol of Aggallu' is the volcano and, is reason why one says, that Oroiña is the mother of Aggallu'. And  remember that not only Aggallu' comes from the heart of the Earth, but that for our well-being is a star in the Sky, the Sun, and for that reason Aggallu'-Sola' is denominated.

Aggallu' means, everything that is seen; and Sola', means alone. It is understood therefore, that Orichaoco and Aggallu', have a great relation to each other, if one considers that  volcano comes out of the heart of the earth,  that is our Orichaoco.

In Orichaoco dilogu'n is thrown a single time and takes a single hand of snails. Orichaoco if it has head, this Santo is a deity. It does not take two hands of snails, but notice that above are indicated to him that Orichaoco takes eight snails of a size that fluctuate between two and two half inches, in form of tirabuzo'n with vertical rays of different colors, created by nature and for the priests  represent the different colors from the terrenal flora. Also, they are also colors that are distinguished to Orichaoco, when it is disguised. These same dots are the Ofifis of painting that is done to the bread, to the Coco or other things that are used for the Ebbo' where Orichaoco speaks and Orichaoco speaks by mouth of Yemalla', by anyone of the seven, since if we paid attention a little are their daughters, because Orichaoco is the husband of Olocu'n, mother of all the Yemalla'.

The food of Orichaoco never must give him to eat in the house, nor to give it so that nobody eat it. To Orichaoco whenever you are going to give  him to eat, prepare a load of everything what  the Earth produces and is to its reach, and it must be crude. As well as the animals that you sacrifice to him, also must direct them crude in a canastica, to deposit them in a hole in the woods.

This must be all target. Of all viandas that is ofrenden to him, had to present/display a small piece to him before the image of Orichaoco or to the secret; all the rest, I repeat, must send to it him the mount and to deposit it in a hole that will find. And thus, it will do with which is cooked, to the three or seven days, or what with the Coco it indicates Orichaoco.

The secrets of this Santo are so deep, that the Creoles are very few who can know them. This Santo so respected and considered by own the African, is a reliable faithful of his word. There is a pact between Orichaoco and Oloddumare, that it fulfills faithfully, because of him all the conscious beings and those nourish themselves and live that are not conscious and that they exist on the Earth face.

Then, next we will give an explanation to the reader, of the similarity of this Santo with Olocu'n. Ocu'n: the sea, is a world and in its interior Olocu'n is locked in, two great spiritual powers as they are it Somuggagga' and Acaro'. In Orichuoco, the Earth, we have to OQUE and OGGUE, that are also two great Earth powers for their impulse and influence.