Diamantino Fernandez Trindade, PhD, (Brazil) is a priest of the Umbanda Christian Temple, an author, and a retired professor. He taught the postgraduate course in Afro-Brazilian culture at the Salesian University Center, and he taught a variety of courses at the Federal Institute of Technological Education of São Paulo. He was initiated in Traditional Umbanda by Pai Ronaldo Linares and initiated in the Kimbanda of the Soul (Tatá EgúngúnInúAféfe) by Tata Kalunga.