He was born in West Africa in the early 1800s and according to the baptism certificates of the parish church of New Peace, he was baptized in 1833. Shortly before being captured by his captors in Africa, and in the imminence of his future slavery, Adeshina He quickly swallowed the orisha orula or the representative foundation of Orunmila so that he could take it with him to his new destination. This ingenious decision, and a sign of the intelligence that its buyers in American lands would later recognize in it, constitutes the fundamental line of the historical and religious continuity of the Ifá of the diaspora with its African origin.
Historians claim that Africans were often subject to three years of "preparation" for baptism, including learning enough Spanish to perform the catechumen required for baptism. Therefore, the probable year of the arrival of Adeshina (Crown that makes fire) to Cuba was 1830. Remigio Herrera was taken to Matanzas as a slave, and there he was recognized for his intelligence and sent to Havana to attend to some of his master's business. . In Regla, Adeshina cultivated good relations with the Spanish owner of a winery and met Ño Carlos Adé Bí, a freedman, a rough man who had been butler and personal confidant of a Spaniard. Carlos Adé Bí not only initially acted as Adeshina's Ifá mentor, but later raised the financial resources to pay the price of his manumission around 1850.
Carlos Adé Bí Ojuani Boká was a very skilled and resourceful Ifá priest who unusually negotiated his freedom before his Spanish master by utilizing his skills with the use of the Ifá divination instrument, okpele or ekuele. He obtained his freedom after positively impressing two Spanish guests of his master, who, convinced of Ñoo Carlos' outstanding intelligence, had bet him that if he divined precisely for them, they would buy his freedom before their master, whom they considered particularly insensitive. Against the "special talents of slaves". Charles did not exactly guess by making an okpele out of circular orange peels and branches of a vine, and the Spaniards avoided a steep fall in business and saved their fortunes. Skillfully, and using their valuable relationships, both took advantage of the security offered by the basement, and used the back room to ritually "wash" or "reconnect" the orisha Orula or Orunmila's representative foundation that young Adeshina had swallowed on Yoruba land and then defecated on the ship that had transported him and other slaves. Despite the Ifa training Adeshina Obara Meyi had received on Yoruba soil, Carlos Adé Bí became his representative "godfather" on Cuban soil, and together they formed a series of interracial and interclass relationships to secure the backroom of the basement as a ritual space. at a time when Lucumí's sacred resources, temples and followers did not yet constitute a critical mass, a significant population in Havana, by the second half of the 1830s.
Once she purchased her freedom, Adeshina began to interact in Cuba's urban society with increasing strength and success. In the mid-1860s, Adeshina was living in Regla, as indicated by the births of her daughter Josefa Herrera (Pepa Eshu Bí) in 1864 and her son Teodoro Herrera in 1866, according to their baptism documents. There he founded the Cabildo de Yemayá together with Ño Filomeno García "Atandá", Ño Juan "el cojo" Aña Bí and his future wife. Before that, he had certainly lived in Matanzas, where he had met his future wife. This period marked the beginning of Adeshina's life as a man of means, able to sustain and house the cabildo, first located in his house, and then in a lot on Morales Street. He later became a property owner, a mason and a man of connections and influence as suggested by the 1881 census documents. To date, he appears along with an expanded list of close relatives as residents in his own house located on San Ciprián Street, later named Fresneda Street. In that census, it appears that Adeshina's birth year was 1811. A series of 1900 documents show the significant price of her house, as well as other property. The house was valued at 115,000 Spanish gold pesos.
She died on January 27, 1905 in Havana. From the moment of her death, Adeshina became a respected and revered ancestor, present in the homes of her descendants, and in ritual places throughout Cuba. Around 1980, the African presence in Regla was symbolized by the placement of her portrait at the entrance of the Regla Museum.
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