Enrique Hernández Armenteros

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Enrique Hernández Armenteros , known as Enriquito or Tata Nganga , (born February 19, 1918 in Guanabacoa , Havana ; † March 22, 2017 ibid.) Was a Cuban Babalawo of the Santería .

Live and act

Enriquito, as Enrique Hernández was mostly called, was descended directly from Congolese slaves . His maternal grandmother was Congolese. It was she who introduced him to the African cults . He practiced four different Santería cults of African origin, mainly the Regla de Ocha from the Congo, in which he was consecrated by the Orisha Elegguá , was a member of the secret and male religious community Abakuá , in Cuba also known as Ñañiguismo and also counted himself to the Ifá -Etnie. His contribution to the Santería cubana made him famous in various esoteric sects , with shamans and followers of paranormal phenomena.

In 1957, Enriquito founded the Asociación Afrocubana Hijos de San Lázaro ( Afro-Cuban Association of the Children of Saint Lazarus ) and thus responded to the feeling of numerous Cubans who venerated the saint. Every other month for over six decades, Tata Nganga received believers from all over Cuba and around the world. His house in the La Hata district was like a temple , furnished with numerous images and figures from the Yoruba pantheon , which syncretize with those of the Christian-Catholic religion : Babalú Ayé (Lazarus), Ochún ( Caridad del Cobre ), Changó ( Santa Bárbara ), Obbatalá ( Virgen de las Mercedes ), Yemayá ( Virgen de Regla ) and so on. In 2001 the authorities approved the first procession . Since then, he and his followers have walked the streets of Guanabacoa every year on December 16, the day of Saint Lazarus.

Tata Nganga was seen as a pro- castist and over time developed into the santero oficial (official priest) of the Communist Party and the highest representative of the “official” Santería of Cuba.

In 2004 a book was published with the title "Tata Nganga" by the Cuban journalist and writer Marcos Alfonso. Based on this, Roberto Chile made a documentary film “Soy Tata Nganga” (I am Tata Nganga) in 2010. Tata Nganga (father Nganga) is the third of five hierarchical levels in the Regla de Congo .

Enriquito was the father of eleven children. He also had around 2000 sponsored children around the world. He died on March 22, 2017 at the age of 99.

Awards

  • Premio Memoria Viva (2008)

literature

  • Marcos Alfonso: Tata Nganga. El mundo mágico - místico de la religious Bantú . Prensa Latina, Havanna 2004 (Spanish, 185 p.).

Movies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c M. Enriqueta: Enriquito, el santero de la Hata. In: La Jiribilla No. 187.2004 , accessed March 25, 2017 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Cuba: A los 99 años fallece 'Enriquito', sacerdote mayor de la santería. In: CrónicaViva. March 23, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2017 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ a b Katia Camejo Montpeller: Homenaje en Guanabacoa Tata Nganga ya Roberto Chile. (No longer available online.) In: Radio Cadena Habana. August 1, 2016, archived from the original on March 26, 2017 ; Retrieved March 24, 2017 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cadenahabana.icrt.cu
  4. ↑ María Fernanda Muñóz: Adiós a “Enriquito”, the sacerdote mayor de la santería cubana. In: Cubanos por el Mundo. March 23, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ José Lesta Mosquera, Miguel Pedrero: Las claves ocultas del poder mundial: Club Bilderberg. Masonería. Bin Laden. Fidel Castro. CIA. ETA… 1st edition. EDAF, Madrid 2009, ISBN 978-84-414-2125-7 , pp. 161 .
  6. ^ Carlos Antonio De Bourbon-Galdiano-Montenegro: El Rayado, The Secrets of Congo Initiations, Palo Mayombe, Palo Monte, Kimbisa . Lulu.com, 2012, ISBN 978-1-105-75093-9 , pp. 12 .
  7. ^ Premio Memoria Viva edición 2008. In: icic.cult.cu. Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural “Juan Marinello”, October 29, 2008, accessed on March 25, 2017 (Spanish).
  8. ^ Soy Tata Nganga (2012). In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved March 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hernández Armenteros, Enrique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Enriquito; Tata Nganga; Hernández, Enrique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban chief Santería clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Guanabacoa , Havana , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH 22nd March 2017
Place of death Guanabacoa , Havana , Cuba