IYAN'LA FERMINA "FERMINITA" GOMEZ TORRIENTE
"O'CHA BI"
THE FOUNDER OF "LA RAMA DE LAS PIMIENTAS "CIRCA 1900.
Photo Credit Dr. David Brown, author Santeria Enthroned and Patakin
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OLA WON MI Honored Heritage Lineages IJUBA (ROLL) CALL OF THE HONORED ANCESTORS—FOUNDERS, MATRIARCHS AND PATRIARCHS—OF WETIPQUIN, MARYLAND, FOUNDED 1683 (THE OLDEST COMMUNITY OF FREE AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) LOCATED IN SOMERSET/ WICOMICO COUNTY. [BY GENERATIONS AND COHORTS] AFRICAN & AMERICAN MATRILINEAL LINE (Most Likely from Ngala/ Igala people – Eastern Nigeria) ↕ COMFORT WRIGHT b. circa 1720 (iyan'la wa…) DAVID DUTTON (b. circa 1735) (baban'la) EARLY WRIGHT b. 1740 + NEGRO EDMUND B. circa 1735 STEPHEN WRIGHT b. 1760 + METHIA (BETHIA) DUTTON b. circa 1765 BOYCE (BLOICE?) WRIGHT b. circa 1790 CATHERINE WRIGHT b. circa 1840 + NOAH MOORE b. circa 1835 MICHAEL WRIGHT b. circa 1860, SIDNEY WRIGHT b. circa 1870.
↕ AFRICAN & AMERICAN PATRILINEAL LINE ↕PERRY WRIGHT + SARAH JANE WRIGHT b. circa 1880 (Most Likely Akan—Ghana) ↕WILLIAM MOORE + LIZZIE (JOSEPH) MOORE b. circa 1880 ↕ ↕ EDWIN SHIRLEY b. 1885 & STELLA YOUNG b. 1903WILLIS WRIGHT b. 1900 + AMELIA WRIGHT b. 1907 MAUDE RUTTER b. 1918 ↕ JOHN RUTTER b. 1912 ↕ (Grand aunt) ↕ (Grand uncle)SARAH ELIZEBETH WRIGHT (b. 1929) + EDWIN SHIRLEY JR. b. 1922 IDILE OR LA RAMA (SANTERIA-LUCUMI) LINEAGE of MICHAEL OSHOOSI
"EL CABILDO DE FERMINITA GOMEZ TORRIENTE" ( aka "LA RAMA DE LAS PIMIENTAS" "LOS COCO ATARES" "LAS PIRANYAS") (USA) In Cuba (in 19th and early 20th centuries) No Corda-isi (?) Tomian Corda (?) Monserrate ("Ma") Gonzales "Oba Tero,"oni Yemanja) ↕ "O'cha bi" (FERMINA "FERMINITA" GOMEZ , oni Ochun, iya n'la) (links unknown to me from 1920's--1960's) * ↕ ↕ In the United States (20th century) "Shango Gumi" (Felicita Mendez, ibae, sun re-o!) ↕ Oni Shango "Oke Ewe" (Luis Rivera, ibae, sun re-o!) ↕ Olo Obatala "Oya Nigue" (Lazara Huesa) ↕ Olo Oya Alberbe Ocha (Aida Torres iba....e, sun 're...ooo) Olo Obatala Ode Ilu (Wilfredo Cruz, ibae, sun re-o!) Olo Ochoosi Anya bi Osun (Roberto Clemente, iba-e, sun re-o!) Oni Oshun Adetola (Beryle Smith) Olo Obatala Omi T'Olokun (Cyril Butler) ↕ Oni Yemoja Ode Omo T'ile (Omo'lode Ti'wale--Michael Wright) Olo Oshoosi (ati Oya) Oluo Ire Mi (Ifa)Baba Fidel Alvarez AWON OSHOOSI ALAGBA,'LAGBA (ELDERS) DOMICILED IN THE U.S.A. PRIOR TO 1995 Iya "Carina" (Lived in Matanzas, Cuba, Initiation Date Unknown)
Francisco Oscar Martinez ("Ode Ilo" Most Knowledgeabe & Esteemed Ochosi Priest in the USA. Initiated in 1968)
Oscar Perez (Made in Puerto Rico, date unclear)
Wilfredo Cruz ("Ode Ilu," ibae, sun re-o!, Grandfather of Michael Oshoosi, initiated in the mid-1970's)
Danny Dawson (Made in Brasil, initiation name & date unclear) Manny Vega (Made in Brasil, initiation name & date unclear) Alashe Michael Oshoosi ("Ode Omo T'ile," "Ode Omo Ti'wale," entered the religion in 1983, initiated to Oshoosi & Oya, 1989, by Roberto Clemente (Anya bi Osun, ibae, sun 're-o!) and Cyril Butler, Omi T'Olokun, ajubon) * Lazaro "Tico" Ithier (Ode N'iwe, initiated 1993) Erin Alexander ("Akofa Oyin"; initiated in 2003) * The names of others in our idile or "rama" (subject to verification) Ajigoro Oshun Laibo Oshun Miwa Eshu Bi Oba T’ola Shango L’aye Ewin Lade Shango Gumi Oke Ewe
"EL CABILDO DE FERMINITA GOMEZ TORRIENTE" ( aka "LA RAMA DE LAS PIMIENTAS" "LOS COCO ATARES" "LAS PIRANYAS") (USA) In Cuba (in 19th and early 20th centuries) No Corda-isi (?) Tomian Corda (?) Monserrate ("Ma") Gonzales "Oba Tero,"oni Yemanja) ↕ "O'cha bi" (FERMINA "FERMINITA" GOMEZ , oni Ochun, iya n'la) (links unknown to me from 1920's--1960's) * ↕ ↕ In the United States (20th century) "Shango Gumi" (Felicita Mendez, ibae, sun re-o!) ↕ Oni Shango "Oke Ewe" (Luis Rivera, ibae, sun re-o!) ↕ Olo Obatala "Oya Nigue" (Lazara Huesa) ↕ Olo Oya Alberbe Ocha (Aida Torres iba....e, sun 're...ooo) Olo Obatala Ode Ilu (Wilfredo Cruz, ibae, sun re-o!) Olo Ochoosi Anya bi Osun (Roberto Clemente, iba-e, sun re-o!) Oni Oshun Adetola (Beryle Smith) Olo Obatala Omi T'Olokun (Cyril Butler) ↕ Oni Yemoja Ode Omo T'ile (Omo'lode Ti'wale--Michael Wright) Olo Oshoosi (ati Oya) Oluo Ire Mi (Ifa)Baba Fidel Alvarez AWON OSHOOSI ALAGBA,'LAGBA (ELDERS) DOMICILED IN THE U.S.A. PRIOR TO 1995 Iya "Carina" (Lived in Matanzas, Cuba, Initiation Date Unknown)
Francisco Oscar Martinez ("Ode Ilo" Most Knowledgeabe & Esteemed Ochosi Priest in the USA. Initiated in 1968)
Oscar Perez (Made in Puerto Rico, date unclear)
Wilfredo Cruz ("Ode Ilu," ibae, sun re-o!, Grandfather of Michael Oshoosi, initiated in the mid-1970's)
Danny Dawson (Made in Brasil, initiation name & date unclear) Manny Vega (Made in Brasil, initiation name & date unclear) Alashe Michael Oshoosi ("Ode Omo T'ile," "Ode Omo Ti'wale," entered the religion in 1983, initiated to Oshoosi & Oya, 1989, by Roberto Clemente (Anya bi Osun, ibae, sun 're-o!) and Cyril Butler, Omi T'Olokun, ajubon) * Lazaro "Tico" Ithier (Ode N'iwe, initiated 1993) Erin Alexander ("Akofa Oyin"; initiated in 2003) * The names of others in our idile or "rama" (subject to verification) Ajigoro Oshun Laibo Oshun Miwa Eshu Bi Oba T’ola Shango L’aye Ewin Lade Shango Gumi Oke Ewe