Educational methodology
Clear attribution makes deeper learning possible.
Religious education becomes more trustworthy when readers can understand what kind of claim they are encountering and where its authority comes from.
Documented history and public scholarship
Historical and cultural claims should be grounded in reliable public sources whenever possible. These include academic scholarship, archival materials, legal history, and well-established public documentation.
Oral tradition and house teaching
Santería is also transmitted through elders, lineages, and religious houses. Oral teachings may vary. When included publicly, they should be described as lineage or house teaching rather than presented as the only universal form.
Practitioner interpretation
Interpretive explanations can help readers connect ideas, but interpretation is not identical to documented history or restricted religious authority. The site identifies interpretive framing where that distinction matters.
Original theological synthesis
The developing Ashe and Character framework is Keith Lawrence Miller’s original synthesis. It studies a cycle of Situation → Choice → Action → Consequence → Reflection → Character → Alignment → Ashe. It is presented as a framework for thought, not as a replacement for lineage teaching.
Corrections and development
This is a living educational library. Pages may be expanded, corrected, attributed more precisely, or reorganized as manuscripts, sources, and expert review are incorporated.
Newsroom review and distribution
A newsroom publication moves through draft, evidence review, sacred-boundary review, and owner or authorized-publisher approval before it becomes public. Website publication and social distribution are separate decisions: a valid canonical page may be published without any social post.
When distribution is approved, the website remains the source of truth. The automation layer may send only the explicitly selected channels and approved platform copy. A distribution failure never automatically removes a valid public page.
Authorship and review
Substantive educational pages identify Keith Lawrence Miller, M.A., as author or reviewer and show a review date. A review date signals that the page has entered the current editorial framework; it does not claim that every house or lineage would use identical language.
Linking and reader pathways
Breadcrumbs, newsroom sections, related resources, glossary links, books, and video lessons are used to keep individual claims within a wider learning context. Search and filters are discovery tools, not statements that a sacred story or Orisha has only one meaning.