Yoruba Deities Lyrics

Relentless, ubiquitous

With power over 9 thou

Yoruba deities

Want a sacrifice to them right now

Theres chango the powerful

Thats married to oshun

Shes the goddess of fertility

Connected to the moon

I seen them pray to Santa Barbara

And pray to Babalus

Sometimes the animal sacrifices

They doing make the news and

If you want to open paths

Then throw candy to Elegua

doing anything with water

You praying to yemaya

This comes from old slave traditions

The africans in a boat

Can't forget the mysticism

The stories told with they throat

Passed on word of mouth

There's no chaining up they beliefs

Toque de santo

Changos appearing before a priest

Paleros dressed in white

Turning apartment closets to shrines

And burning candles, incense and offerings

All the time

They set up San Lazaro

With his leprosy walking dogs

And make a psychoactive drink

From secretions within a frog

They took the saints from Christianity

And turned them to Orishas

From the congo basin

Integrating both religions features

Yo i grew up,

Around everything I was just speaking

Came from Africa

But now its belief of the puerto ricans