Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

Maritza Tamayo, a high school principal, was fired yesterday from her $133,000-a-year job held since 1997. According to sources, she was accused of performing Santeria rituals which included white robes, mystic headdresses, splattered chicken blood, burning incense and tarot cards in an effort to “cleanse the building of bad spirits that caused students to act up.” In her defense, she claims to be no more than a victim of circumstances who likes to adorn her home and office with lots of plants, primitive and religious art work from South America, black history month dolls and sessions of burning sage incense.

My understanding is that Santeria is a pagan practice brought from Cuba which blended West African religious traditions with elements of Western Catholic culture.