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This page groups deities by the religion whose adherents actively worship them, connecting a god to the living or historical community that maintains their cult. Wikipedia defines cult, in the religious sense, as "the care (Latin: cultus) owed to deities or saints and their temples, shrines, or churches." Browsing this way lets a visitor see every deity that belongs to one religion's worship, rather than reading about gods religion by religion.

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
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Deities of Afro-Brazilian religion

This small group holds divine figures of Afro-Brazilian religions such as Candomble and Umbanda, which took shape among enslaved Africans in Brazil, chiefly from Yoruba, Fon and Bantu sources blended with Catholicism and, in Umbanda, with Spiritism. The deities are the orixas, the Brazilian form of the Yoruba orishas.

The browser will find figures served in the terreiros of Brazil, paired in practice with Catholic saints. Because these overlap closely with the Yoruba orishas treated elsewhere in the atlas, the entries note the shared source tradition while marking what is distinctively Brazilian in their worship.

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Buddhism

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Ancient Egyptian Religion

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Celtic Paganism

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Norse Paganism

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Roman Religion

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29 entries

Chinese Folk Religion

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Shinto

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Aztec Religion

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23 entries

Mesopotamian Religion

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22 entries

Maya Religion

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19 entries

Haitian Vodou

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16 entries

Yorùbá Religion (Ifá)

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Polynesian Religion

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Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery)

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Finnish Paganism (Suomenusko)

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Baltic Paganism (Romuva)

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9 entries

Taoism

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Canaanite Religion

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8 entries

Etruscan Religion

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8 entries

Zoroastrianism

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7 entries

Diné (Navajo) Religion

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6 entries

Hittite Religion

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6 entries

Inca Religion

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6 entries

Lakota Religion

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6 entries

Pre-Roman Lusitanian Religion

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6 entries

Vodun (West African)

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Ainu Religion

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Inuit Religion

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5 entries

Korean Muism

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Wicca

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Australian Aboriginal Religion

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4 entries

Caucasian Native Religion

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4 entries

Hurrian Religion

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4 entries

Mandaeism

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4 entries

Native Hawaiian Religion

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4 entries

Siberian Shamanism

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4 entries

Vietnamese Folk Religion

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4 entries

Akan Religion

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3 entries

Anishinaabe Religion

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3 entries

Christianity

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Jainism

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Odinani

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Phoenician and Punic Religion

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Tengrism

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Zulu Traditional Religion

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Continental Germanic Paganism

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Dogon Religion

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Hermeticism

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Old Armenian Religion

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Pre-Christian Georgian Religion

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Quimbanda

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2 entries

The Eleusinian Mysteries

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Thracian Religion

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2 entries

Umbanda

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Yazidism

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Bahá’í Faith

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Candomblé

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1 entry

Druze Faith

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Gnosticism

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1 entry

Islam

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Judaism

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Latter Day Saint Movement

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Nabataean Religion

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1 entry

Palmyrene Religion

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1 entry

Philippine Indigenous Religion (Anitism)

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1 entry

Santería (Lucumí)

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1 entry

Shona Traditional Religion

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1 entry

Sikhism

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1 entry

Urartian Religion

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Connections

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Candomblé, Religions

Afro-Brazilian deities: the orixas served in Candomble.

Source Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian CandombleJ. Lorand Matory
Umbanda, Religions

Afro-Brazilian deities: the figures served in Umbanda.

Source Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in BrazilKelly E. Hayes
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble
J. Lorand Matory, Princeton University Press, 2005IntroductionView the Source
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil
Kelly E. Hayes, University of California Press, 2011
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