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Friday, 26 December 2014

Knowing The History Of Candomble

By Stacey Burt


You have always been interested in the religious beliefs of other people. You want to know how it connect with the personal lives and how it influences their actions along the way. This is why you are determined to get more information about these faiths to gt to understand them better along the way.

Since you are interested about the religion, see to it that you spend enough time getting to know more details about it and understanding it as well as its origins, you would do well by learning the history of Candomble. This way, you get to appreciate not only its influences now, but also how it started, how it was established, and how it has become a major religious influence now.

This faith is mainly practiced in Brazil. It has been snychretized by the Catholic Church. Also, it is consider to be a religion that has incorporated indigenous traditions in its practices. It is consider to be an Afro-American religion and can be a mixture of the traditions of Bantu, Fon, and Yoruba beliefs. Its ritual involve the offering of vegetable, mineral, as well as animal kingdoms.

Officially, this faith is said to have been established in the beginning of the 19th century, it originated in Salvador, Bahia. It was also around this time that its first temples was also funded. Most people would actually credit the start of the faith to the earliest days of the salve trade though and were influenced by enslaved Africans. Aside from Brazil, other Latin American countries practice it too.

This religions was developed around 1549 to 1888 in Brazil. This was developed from the knowledge that was brought over by those enslaved African priest. This was mixed with the language, their mythology, as well as their culture. This is a religion that is base don oral tradition. So, there s no scripture to which everybody must abide by. The supreme creator is known as Oludumare.

This religion was greatly condemned by the Catholic Church. This resulted in violent persecution. The government, even played a hand towards ensuring that there are public campaigns against the faith, the police were also involved. This only stopped in the 1970s after the law which used to require police permission for public ceremonies got scrapped.

Practitioners of this faith believe that an individual has his own deity. This tutelary deity will in turn, controls the destiny of the individual. At the same time, he acts as the person's protector. Each f these deities represent a certain force of nature. Often, it is also associated with certain animals. Food, colors, days of the week and others. The character of a person is also said to be linked to his deity.

In this particular religion, there is no specific concept of what is good or what particular act is considered bad. People are only taught to do what they can to make sure that they get to live their lives in full. Each person has a destiny and it is his responsibility to fulfill that destiny. Doing evil is not tolerated however, as it is believed that the evil that one causes to other returns back to him one day.




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