The African Diasporic "Orisha" Babluaye is the archtype of diseases and sickness in the new worlds. Babaluaye was originally called Soppona and was the Orisha of small pox and other small diseases confined to being worshipped by a secret society.
This paper tracks how the worship of Babaluaye grew in direct proportion to the growth of communicable diseases in the world (large due to transportation line increases).
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