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  Encyclopedia: Candomblé   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Candomblé deities, rituals, and holidays are now an integral part of Brazilian Folklore is the ethnographic concept of the tales, legends, or superstitions current among a particular ethnic population, a part of the oral history of a particular culture.
Candomblé may be called Macumba in some regions, notably Ipanema beach A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and a city in southeastern Brazil.
Candomblé music, an essential part of the ritual, derives from Africa is a large and diverse continent, consisting of dozens of countries, hundreds of languages and thousands of races, tribes and ethnic groups.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Candombl%E9   (3168 words)

  
 Candomblé - netlexikon
Der Candomblé ist eine afro-brasilianische Religion, die hauptsächlich in Brasilien, aber auch in angrenzenden Ländern praktiziert wird.
Candomblé ist von Umbanda und von Macumba zu unterscheiden.
Diese entwickelten sich unabhängig von Candomblé und sind in Brasilien nahezu unbekannt.
www.lexikon-definition.de /Candombl%C3%A9.html   (1263 words)

  
 Semester At Sea - Spring 2002
CandomblÈ is an Afro-Brazilian religion based primarily on the beliefs of the Yoruba and other peoples of West Africa.
In colonial times, slaves were prohibited from practicing their religions for fear that it would serve to reinforce their group identity.
Araketu, in Yoruba, means "people from Ketu." Ketu was an ancient village in Nigeria and the origin of a significant number of slaves in Bahia.
www.semesteratsea.com /voyages/spring2002/sp2002_02.html   (6638 words)

  
 MEMORY LINES: ART IN THE PAN-AFRICAN WORLD
So, in 1978 when her world was falling apart: the end of a marriage, the loss of a mother, no job, no family, no financial means of support, Montgomery intuitively did what diasporic Africans did in Brazilian Candomblé, Haitian Vodun, Jamaican Pukuminia, Cuban Lucumi, and the Hoodoo cultural rites of Southern United States.
In accordance with his African beliefs, he holds that images, colors, and forms have latent powers, which must consciously be released if the rite of creation is to be completed satisfactorily.
His conceptualization, simultaneously esoteric and aesthetic, recollects the ancient metaphysical view of colors as possessing energy, a view that is held by Candomblé, Lucumí and Vodun devotees in the Americas, and in Africa by the Dogon, Igbo, Ibibio, Akan, Mende, Yorùbá, and Ewe to name a few.
www.africaresource.com /ijele/vol1.2/nzegwu2.html   (15687 words)

  
 Bahia de todos os ritmos - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
Candombl’, samba de roda, do rec’ncavo Baiano, capoeira and macul’l’.
Later on came: Olodum, Muzenza, Ara ketu, Mal’, Timbalada...
Olodum brings SAMBA REGGAE, a new revolutionary rhythm with a great contribution to traditional samba rhythms.’ The heart of the percussion groups’is located in the ghetto's where the biggest concentration of the fl (music making) population lives.
music.download.com /bahiadetodososritmos/3600-9050_32-100681511.html   (574 words)

  
 digihitch Road Shop: Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomble
The book is an amazing piece of scholastic work conducted by a once relectant initiate of Nago-Ketu Nation and surveys the history, practices, theology, ritualism and cosmology of Candomble and the role of the Terreiro in historical and contemporary Brazilian society.
There are many things that I had issues with.....the title of the book being one of them.....but by far, it is the most substantial piece of work that has been published in English targeted in a non-sensationalist way for the non-brazilian public.
A Refuge in Thunder: Candombl and Alternative Spac...
www.digihitch.com /amazonroad-0195150589.html   (408 words)

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