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Facts

Overview

What Defines This Grouping

The orixas and related spirits served in the Afro-Brazilian religions - Candomble, Umbanda and their relatives - which formed among enslaved and freed Africans in Brazil out of Yoruba, Fon-Ewe and Bantu sources alongside Catholicism. The houses are initiatory, and each nacao keeps its own liturgy, ritual language and roll of spirits. 2

Peoples and Traditions Covered

Angola and Congo houses, drawing on Bantu sources, whose spirits are the inquices 2

Peoples and Traditions Covered

Jeje houses, drawing on Fon and Ewe sources from the Bight of Benin 2

Peoples and Traditions Covered

Ketu and Nago houses, drawing on Yoruba sources, whose ritual language is a Brazilian Yoruba 2

Attestation

Era of Attestation

The oldest continuously functioning Candomble houses in Bahia are documented from the first half of the nineteenth century, and sustained outside description begins with Brazilian ethnography around 1900. The religion is served today. 2

Veneration Today

Served today in terreiros across Brazil and in the Brazilian diaspora. 2