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The two are the same oracle by descent, and most of the sixteen parent names carry across, but the earliest substantial documentation of Cuban practice dates from the twentieth century, long after the transatlantic crossing. Everything between is inferred from the state of the two traditions when they were finally recorded.
What would resolve this Earlier documentary evidence of Cuban practice: colonial administrative or ecclesiastical records describing cowrie divination, or dated libretas from the nineteenth century with a secure provenance.
OpenHistory of Afro-Cuban religion; archival history of colonial CubaWilliam Bascom, Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World
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How far had Cuban Diloggun diverged from Yoruba erindinlogun before the earliest written records of Cuban practice? The question concerns how far Cuban Diloggun diverged from Yoruba erindinlogun.
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