# Conclusion: poetics and performance of the Pacific culture  
Meanwhile, the struggle for freedom was echoed in the construction of their own oral, magical and mythical culture, as expressed poetically by Vanín (1998, p. 276): ‘A festival was created on the basis of language, and this festival of fables and ten-line stanzas and quatrains combined with the musical high points of "currulaos" and "jotas", the racket of the drums and the sound of the marimbas'. For three renowned analysts of Afro-Colombian cultures, the central position occupied by the devil or demon is a distinctive feature in the constitution of Afro-Colombian cultures in the Colombian Pacific. (Almario García, 2012, p. 77; Jiménez, 2004, p. 22 et seq.; Vanin, 1998, p. 276). The devil or demon signified cultural appropriation and a political shift in meaning from the fear of whites and the slave order, and this was being complemented by an enthusiastic oral tradition, marimba music, motley dances, parties, popular religious festivals and celebrations of the moral solidarity of death as expressed during wakes. The Afro-Colombian cultures of today's Colombian Pacific still represent this lively, libertarian desire which also served, and continues to serve, as a collective catharsis for enslavement. Such manifestations are ultimately a representation of African roots that transformed in the context of the Colombian Pacific and established themselves as part of the founding order of the plurality of Colombias from the inception of the diaspora.