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Pierre Verger / Brazil / Candomblé

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Candomblé Opo Afonja
Salvador, Bahia. 1948-1967

 

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...in the Terreiro *) do Opo Afonjá, where Mae Senhora initiated me into the kingdom of Xango *), the God of Thunder, I was given a string of red and white pearls, Xango's symbolic colors. Undergoing the initiation ceremony made me one of her spiritual sons, after which I could be accepted into the world of the Candomblé.

P. Verger