Sensemayá is an orchestral composition by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. It was originally composed in 1937 for a small orchestra and then revised in 1938 for a full orchestra including 27 wind instruments, fourteen percussion instruments and strings. It is a setting of a poem of the same name by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén. The poem is based on Afro-Cuban religious cults, and it evokes a ritual chant performed while killing a snake. Sensemayá is probably Revueltas' most famous and popular composition.

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