![]() The Diloggun: The Orishas, Sacrifices, Proverbs, and Prohibitions of Cuban Santeria. Shells as Evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture. ^ José Beniste (1999), Jogo de Búzios - Um Encontro com o Desconhecido.Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, 1999 ISBN8-4 ^ Pierre Verger, Notas Sobre o Culto aos Orixás e Voduns.^ Pierre Fatumbi Verger (1954): Dieux D'Afrique Paul Hartmann, Paris (1st edition, 1954 2nd edition, 1995).In most Candomblé houses, 'open' still means that the natural opening is facing up but some traditions (mainly in Candomblé Ketu) use the opposite convention.The number of 'open' shells is used to select an item ( odú) which direct the diviner to a fixed list of oracular verses. ![]() The two stable positions of the shell are still called 'open' or 'closed' for divination purposes. Most priests, however, use modified shells whose rounded part has been ground away, creating a second, artificial opening.
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