Whoa! Santeria priests predict natural disasters, sexual debauchery, and plagues for Cuba in 2019

From our Bureau of Totally Unsurprising Predictions, Doom and Gloom Division

Ay, Mami.

Santa mierda de los perros de San Lazaro!

The African gods who control the future of Cuba have spoken through their human intermediaries.

And they have nothing nice to say.

Cuba’s Santeria priests, speaking for the African gods, seem to be agreeing with Raul Castro and synthetic “president” Trucutu about some of what lays in store for Castrogonia this year.

Suffering, suffering, and more suffering, topped off by an onslaught of venereal diseases –now known as STD’s– caused by an increase in sexual debauchery “desenfreno sexual” on the island.

Those African gods of Santeria sure know how to cheer people up, don’t they?

Nothing but woe

Loosely translated from Marti Noticias

A group of priests of the Cuban Santeria religion revealed on Wednesday their traditional “Letter of the Year”, a broad and cryptic text with predictions that warn of diseases and natural catastrophes in 2019, and recommends preparing for problems with justice.

The babalawos (priests of Ifá or Santería) belonging to the Yoruba Cultural Association of Cuba met this year’s end in the traditional ceremony where they elaborated their message of the beginning of the year, much awaited by the thousands of believers of the Afro-Cuban religions and also reproduced on social networks.

In a year that will be governed by the orisha or Ochún deity with Oggún as his companion,  Santeria priests predict that Cuba will be hit by natural catastrophes and sea penetrations that can cause floods and landslides, as well as an increase in migratory conflicts and problems in the agricultural sector.

Ochún is syncretized in Cuba with the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, patron saint of the island, and is for Santería the queen of fresh waters, streams, springs and rivers, and the personification of love and fertility, while Oggún He is the orisha who represents strength and work.

The Association, considered official by other groups practicing santería on the island, predicted that stomach and intestines diseases will increase, among others, and among their advice, warns about the danger of waste and advises to avoid the misuse of chemical products in the agriculture…

….In addition to exhorting to maintain a balance in “all the orders”, the priests of Ifá warned about an increase in venereal diseases as a result of “sexual debauchery” and recommended not to self-medicate, a practice quite widespread among Cubans.