During the final weeks of our time in Montevideo, my family joined the citizens of Montevideo in their annual pilgrimage to pay obeisance to Iemanjá, the Yoruba orishá (goddess, or divine embodiment) of the sea. Worshipped in West Africa, Cuba, Brazil, and other parts of Afro-Latin America, Iemanjá arrived in Uruguay in the 1930s and 1940s, introdu

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