On the Orishas' Roads and Pathways:
Obatalá, Odúa, Oduduwá
Miguel W. Ramos, Ilarí Obá, PhD
581 Pages, ISBN 978 1 877845 18 5
Published by Eleda.org, 2017
Miguel "Willie" Ramos, Ilarí Obá, Lukumí olorisha of Shangó and Obá Oriaté, was born
in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Ordained into the Lukumí priesthood
at the age of thirteen, he has been an oriaté for over forty-five years. Ramos is a student
of Yoruba-Lukumí religion in Brazil, Cuba, and the Cuban diaspora. He holds a PhD in
History from Florida International University, where he taught Anthropology, Sociology, and History.
For close to forty years, Ramos has conducted fieldwork on Orisha religion,
primary in Cuba and Brazil. As part of his research for the current publication, Ramos
visited Nigeria, where he established good foundations to pursue further research.
On the Orishas' Roads and Pathways: Obatalá, Odúa, Oduduwá is the second in a
collection of publications on Lukumí Orisha religion. Ramos has published many other
works. His Orí Eledá mí ó... in Spanish (2011) and English (2023), Adimú: Gbogbó
Tén'unjé Lukumí (2012), and Obí Agbón-Lukumí
Divination with Coconut (2012)
have received much praise from the
Orisha community. The first volume in
this series, On the Orishas' Roads and
Pathways: Oshún, Deity of Femininity,
laid the foundations for this edition,
which promises to engage the reader,
promoting necessary and meaningful
discourse and consideration of important
themes on the current state of Lukumí
religion as it experiences its transition
onto the stage of world faiths.
(The text above comes from the back of the book)
