Traditional African and Diaspora Practices

Devotional practices belonging to traditional African religions and their diaspora continuations in the Americas, including the Kola Nut Offering, in which the shared nut carries ritual and hospitality meaning across several West African cultures, and Ori veneration, honoring the personal Ori or inner head as the seat of an individual's destiny in Yoruba and related traditions, both of West African, chiefly Yoruba and Igbo, origin, and Quimbanda's offerings left at the crossroads, an Afro-Brazilian tradition descended from African religious practice that was reshaped through contact with Indigenous and Catholic elements after enslaved Africans carried it to Brazil.