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African Legends of the Orixás

African Legends of the Orixás

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ISBN: 9788588971165
Format: 22 x 28 cm
Pages: 100
Binding: hardcover

“A babalaô told me.” With these words Pierre Fatumbi Verger begins his book Lendas Africanas dos Orixás. The phrase anticipates that Fatumbi will now tell the reader what he heard from the mouth of the priest who knows all the stories that explain the world, dictate the rules that organize society and guide the conduct of each human being in all moments of his life, the good and the bad.
[...] Not by chance, African Legends of the Orixás is completed with illustrations by Carybé. His drawings show the orixás with the vigorous and moving features that give Candomblé its certification as an Afro-Brazilian religion born in Bahia.
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Pierre Fatumbi Verger

Pierre Fatumbi Verger

Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger (Paris, 4 November 1902 – Salvador, 11 February 1996) was a French-Brazilian self-taught photographer and ethnologist. He assumed the religious name Fatumbi. He was also a babalawo (Yoruba priest) who devoted most of his life to the study of the African diaspora - the slave trade, the Afro-derived religions of the new world, and the resulting cultural and economic flows to and from Africa.

After the age of 30, after losing his family, Pierre Verger p...
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