KIUMBANDA -A COMPLETE GRAMMAR OF THE ART OF EXU-
Author :
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
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ISBN : 1411675851
Holy Harlots
Author : Kelly E. Hayes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520949439
Book Description
Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human world. Others view this entity more ambivalently. Kelly E. Hayes provides an intimate and engaging account of the intricate relationship between Pomba Gira and one of her devotees, Nazaré da Silva. Combining Nazaré’s spiritual biography with analysis of the gender politics and violence that shapes life on the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, Hayes highlights Pomba Gira’s role in the rivalries, relationships, and struggles of everyday life in urban Brazil. The accompanying film Slaves of the Saints may be viewed online at ucpress.edu/go/holyharlots.
The Kingdom of Kimbanda
Author : Bàbá Osvaldo Omotobàtálá
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0557627788
Book Description
The author presents the fundamental book of kimbanda Exu. Featuring legends and mythological origins of the ritual, kimbanda organization, the Povos and their leaders, some magic symbols, the kimbanda offerings, rituals and ceremonies principal, explaining the degrees of initiation in this kind of primitive magic.
Maria Padilha
Author : Veronica Rivas
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2021-05-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781914071355
Book Description
Maria Padilha is unique in as much as she did not begin HER journey as a goddess, spirit, demon, or archetypal energy. Her origins can be found in the history books as a wife and as a queen. Veronica Rivas takes us on a fascinating journey as she shares this woman's history as well as her place within the magickal hierarchy. Veronica Rivas shares with us her enthusiasm, and her love for this once queen. Maria Padilha is professionally researched and beautifully written. But then, I would expect nothing less from Veronica Rivas. This book is a truly enlightening look at Maria Padilha from a historical, devotional, and subjective point of view.
The Taste of Blood
Author : James William Wafer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812213416
Book Description
The Taste of Blood brilliantly explores both Condomble and the representations of ethnographic research.--Folklore Forum
Magic from Brazil
Author : Morwyn
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Afro-Brazilian cults
ISBN : 9780738700441
Book Description
Get ready to launch yourself on an incredible journey into a fascinating cultural force and powerful magical system. Born in turn-of-the-century Brazil, the vibrant magical religions of Umbanda, Macumba, Spiritism, and Candomblé combined ecstatic African traditions with European Spiritualism. They share much in common with Wicca, shamanism, and even ceremonial magic. This book is an insider's look at their practices, practices that you can incorporate into your own workings. Call on the powers of the Orixás, the gods of the Afro-Brazilian pantheon; practice their spellwork and rituals, trance and mediumship; experience the energies of tropical botanicals used in magic and healing; and sample Afro-Brazilian cuisine: the foods of the gods. This book: Presents authentic Brazilian magic from a Portuguese and Brazilian scholar. The author has attended ceremonies, interviewed heads of sects, recorded music, and collected artifacts for this book Deepens understanding of channeling, color magic, drumming, nature religions, naturopathic healing, even psychotherapy Introduces a refreshing perspective with important lessons for practitioners of all religions
Na Gira Do Exu - Invoking the Spirits of Brazilian Quimbanda
Author : Mario Dos Ventos
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0955690315
Book Description
Quimbanda, the Cult of Exu and Pomba Gira, is a Shamanic Witchcraft Tradition practiced in Brazil. Sometimes called Macumba or even referred to as Satanism and Devil Worship, it incorporates elements of African and South-American Indian believes and religion as well as Medieval European Witchcraft. This new edition of Na Gira do Exu presents over 330 Pontos Cantados (songs and invocations) and more then 100 rare Pontos Riscados (ritual sigils and drawings) for Exu and Pomba Gira, the Spirits of Brazilian Quimbanda, and looks at the roots and historic development of this cult, the role of the initiate, ceremonies, magical workings and the hierarchy of the spirits of this cult.
Queering Black Atlantic Religions
Author : Roberto Strongman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1478003456
Book Description
In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.
Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America
Author : Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137535008
Book Description
In this provocative book, Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines untamed feminine divinities from around the world. Although distant geographically, these divine figures are surprisingly similar-representing concepts of liminality, outsiderhood, and structural inferiority, embodied in the divine feminine. These strong, independent, unrestrained figures are connected to the periphery and to magical powers, including power over sexuality, transformation, and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba offers a study of the origin and worship of four feminine deities across cultures and continents: the Slavic Baba Yaga, the Hindu Kālī, the Brazilian Pombagira, and the Mexican Santa Muerte. Although these divinities have often been marginalized through dismissal, demonization, and dulcification, they continue to be extremely attractive, as they empower their devotees confronting them with the ultimate reality of transience and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines how these sacred icons have been adapted and transformed across time and place.
Quimbanda Grimoire
Author : Asamod Ka
Publisher : Bookmundo.pt
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9403709413
Book Description
Grimoire entirely dedicated to the Afro-Brazilian Quimbanda. There are 143 pages of powerful content, including descriptions of the Kingdoms and phalanges of Quimbanda, the Chief Eshús and Pombagiras from each Realm. How to activate the sigils (points). There are scratched points (magickal sigils) of these entities, sung points (hymns), various spells for protection, and love bindings. Strong spells in graveyards. Glossary of terms, a powerful gunpowder spell for spiritual cleansing or disobsession. Translation and explanation of the meaning of the names of Eshús. It's the real Quimbanda with Nagô origins, not the fake westernized Quimbanda mixed with Jewish Goetia.
