Adimú and sweet offerings for the Orishas

Who doesn't like candy? Almost all of us love that mixture of hot or cold sweet flavors, because the Orishas are also grateful for adimú and sweet offerings.

For centuries it has been offered to the deities of the Yoruba Pantheon Adimuses (offerings), some elaborate, others spicy, with or without salt, drinks, but also the Orishas like sweetness and that they please them by adding Adimú, desserts.

With transculturation, most of the existing ingredients in Africa were replaced in Cuba by other foods, attributes and elements.

Offerings, delivery of gratitude and devotion

Many are the sweets and desserts that the orishas like, offerings that they are grateful for because through them you offer gratitude and pay tribute.

Adimú is not only offered for a health problem, a crisis that overwhelms us, a relationship that ends, a love that does not arrive or a job that does not appear, although there will always be one or another difficulty, remember your Orishas and offer them gratitude with one of these sweets made by your own hands and they will thank you.

If you are aleyo (not initiated in religion) you can also make offerings, among them sweets and if your desire is to crown yourself they will put it on your way, because the Orishas also give thanks.

Some of the best known sweets and desserts in Cuba are also dedicated to the deities, some of them may have different names in other countries.

Dessert	Orisha
Almonds	Obatalá and Oddúa
Cabezote and Cappuccino	Oshún, Inle and Oba
Gipsy arm	Oshún and Inle
Buñuelos, Custard, Drunk Panetela, Milk Flan and Pumpkin Flan	Oshun
Blancmange	Yemayá, Olokún, Obbatalá and Oddúa
Royal dough and guava jam	Eleggua
Marzipan and Meringue	Obatalá and Oduduwá
Chocolate custard and Torrejas	Oyá
Morón pancakes	Inle, Yemayá and Olokún

Addimú Adun, sweets for the Orishas

We present some of the offerings that can be given to the orishas with their translation from Yoruba.

It is important to know that the Orishas have taboos and prohibitions among their offerings, that is, foods that they do not like, so it is important to know which ones they like.

addimu adu (sweet)	Dessert	Orishas
Tax	gofio	Yemayá, Olokún, Oshún and all the Orishas
Ado you oyin	Gofio levers with honey	All the orishas
Adó ti oyín ireke	Gofio palanquetas with cane syrup	Inle, Orishaoko, Yemayá, Olokún
Adún agbón dudu	Dry coconut sweet or in syrup	Yemayá, Olokun, Inle
Adún agbón end	Dried white coconut candy or in syrup	Obatala, Oddua
Adun aká	Bread pudding	obbatala
I have chosen	Pumpkin candy	Oshun
adun eyebale elede	Pig blood candy	egguns
Adún guafa	Guava hulls in syrup	Eleggua
adún ibepé	Sweet papaya	Oyá
Adun Ireke	Scrape (sugar cone)	Eleggua
adun ogede	Banana in temptation	Inle, Aggayu
adun omi wara	Dulce de leche	Obatala, Oddua
Akasa adun	White threshed corn tamales with sugar	Obbatalá, Oddua
akasá ti agbón	White threshed corn tamales with sugar and coconut milk	Obbatalá, Oddua
Agidí Ball	Sweet fermented cornmeal	Aggayu, Oyá
Amalá'dún	Flour in sweet	Shango, Aggayú
Igbekuru	Cornbread	Elegguá, Oggun, Oshosi, Inle, Oshun
Kunkunduku adun 1	sweet potato	Yemayá, Inle, Olokun
Kunkunduku still 2	Bad rage	Oyá, Aggayu
Shinkafa adun	Milk pudding	Obbatalá, Oddua
Shinkafa ti agbón	Coconut milk rice	Obbatalá, Oddúa, Yemayá and Olokún

The adimu offered by the Orishas must be given with a lot of love and faith, no matter how simple their gift to the deities, it must be with humility, the greatness of the offering is found in their heart.