Natalia Bolívar Aróstegui, an ethnologist and disciple of the great Fernando Ortiz, dedicated her life to the study of Afro-Cuban culture and Yoruba religion. She is the author of important texts that help to understand the identity of the "Cuban".
Among his most famous books is "The Orishas in Cuba", which, according to the author's own words, runs through the nooks and crannies of the Pantheon of the Regla de Ocha.
Through collected legends and fables that show the avatars of the Orishas, their characteristics and myths.
"Ituto: death in Afro-Cuban myths and rituals", is also an important publication that deals with the role of death in Afro-Cuban culture and explains ceremonies and interesting aspects related to it in the yoruba religion.
The ethnologist of Cuban culture, Natalia Bolívar
The author Natalia Bolívar also wrote "Myths and Legends of Afro-Cuban food" that addresses the most important characteristics, stories and customs of the secret society Abakuá, the Regla de Ocha, Palo Monte and the Patakies de Ifá.
It also includes in the work, the favorite offerings of the Orishas and their favorite delicacies, with which they are entertained.
Furthermore, Bolívar public, "Opolopo Owó: the divinatory systems of the Rule of Ocha", an extensive work that offers the reader the complicated secrets of the divinatory systems of the Rule of Ocha and that even today is considered of great importance for the study of religion.
"Orishas, Egguns, Nkisis, Nfumbes and their possession of Cuban painting" It is also a recognized publication of the author, as a tribute to Cuban painters of the 30s and their relationship with Afro-Cuban religious culture.
Natalia and her unprecedented investigations
This type of research that Natalia Bolivar turned into books, they revealed a part of Cuban history that was often misunderstood and little addressed.
They gave the space that corresponds to the Afro-Cuban culture in the island identity.
Another of his published books was "The dogs and the orishas", a tribute by the author to the fidelity of these animals and a look at their relationship with some deities.
Likewise, the writer published "Santa Bárbara / Chango" Religious syncretism?, on the existence of a true syncretism of the Catholic and Afro-Cuban religions and how it was possible to worship the Yoruba deities in the image of the Catholic saints.
Also very popular with fans of the Rule of Ocha are your rehearsals "Ifá: its history in Cuba", which relates odduns, patakines, oracles and "Holy Cuba", which allows us to know the history of Cuba but through the histories of religions.
