Ethnographic atlas of Cuba

Ogún: Yoruba deity, also worshiped by the Benin Fon (gu). It is identified with war, forge and iron. Black color and number twenty-one are its attributes. It is worshipped on Tuesdays and especially on June 24th. That is the reason why some believers relate him with Saint Peter and Saint John the Baptist. Sheep and red cocks are offered to him. His plants are the yellow thistle (Tribulus cistides, Lin.) and the borococo rattan (Thumbergia fragans, Rox.). Its symbol is an iron or clay pot with twenty-one miniature work tools or weapons inside. The pot may be surrounded or not by an iron chain. It is then called ogún alaguedé. In other of its paths or avatars it is represented by a central rod tied by fine chains to a ring from which work tools and weapons hang, all at the same distance. The top part of the rod has a round base supporting the structure. It is then known as ogún achibiriquí. Ogun has its own beats, songs, dances and myths, all part of the popular religion of Santería.

Ombligada: Lay dance of a Congolese origin. Partners stand face to face with their arms risen while their heads roll to the sides. The main purpose of the dance is having the navels (ombligo in Spanish) touch and rub, thus the name of this erotic dance.

Orilé (cordón de) (Orile's Chord): Choruses of spiritualist religious rites or spiritualist centers. Their beliefs and practices is an interesting mixture of Allan Kardec's eschatological spiritualism with traditional Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant. Choruses of many voices, from twenty to a hundred, according to the attendance of devotees, sing the cantos de cordón (cordón chants) or cantos de orilé (orilé chants) in what they term "spiritual masses" and in other acts. While singing, the members of the chorus move rhythmically in "chains" or "chords", generally around some persons possessed by spirits or of mediums who, inspired in trance by some "space being", give them advice on how to act, how to heal the sick, and other things.