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... an appropriate priest. The forms of worship, invocation, and divination are undertaken through the offices of a priest (known as a santero or a babalawo) dedicated to the particular orishas. There is a rich and complex oral tradition on the steps to priesthood ... It was here that Pichardo first encountered Santería for himself and exhibited those personal characteristics that would mark him as the head of the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye. "At the time, administrators were trying to drum him out ...