Brazil Slide Series: Collection Salvador, Bahia, Slide No. 0042.

Creator

Herbert Knup
Jon M. Tolman
Siegfried Muhlhausser

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Publication Date

3-2-2009

Description

Images of Catholic saints used in Candomblds which represent various orixas. The African slaves managed to continue to practice their religious beliefs by disguising their African orixas on altars as Catholic saints. By superimposing a saint on an orixa. Catholics could pray to their saint while the slaves invoked their orixas.Imagens de santos católicos usados no Candomblé e que representam vários orixás. Os escravos africanos conseguiram continuar a praticar suas crenças religiosas disfarçando os orixás africanos nos altares de santos católicos. Sobrepondo um santo a um orixá, os católicos poderiam adorar seus santos, enquanto os escravos invocavam seus orixás.

Publisher

Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico

Rights

Brazil Slide Series Collection: This article is copyrighted by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) of the University of New Mexico. Rights permission is for standard academic, non-commercial, use of these materials. Proper citation of this material should include title, author, publisher, date, and URL. Copyright Latin American and Iberian Institute University of New Mexico 1988