Who Is God?

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to maintain sporadic but precious contact with Africa through
networks of friends and traders. They sought the sacred cowries, seeds, and
beads of Africa for their religion." This example of perseverance of their
native ritual and worship practices, shows the magnitude that region held for
many Yoruba Africans.
They kept their own religion alive through many hidden tactics such as
unsuspected culinary art, by giving the gods the food they needed to be strong.
"But these were more than foods: they were writings in code. African system of
logic and belief flowed unsuspected from the kitchen, giving the gods the dishes
they craved."
The Altar was also maintained by many-shelved cabinets called
canastillerd, as Thompson showed in plate 175, the cabinet would hide the
religious essence of the Alter inside, when police or strangers came. Thompson
shows that anything from a empty room to a plate of food can be an alter, an
altar is just a place that you realize and express ...

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