A POMBAGIRA: RESSIGNIFICAÇÃO MÍTICA DA DEUSA LILITH.

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the Pombagira as a reinterpretation of the mythical goddess Lilith, the Sumerian mythology. She appeared in colonial Brazil and pervaded the imperial period through the memories and the popular imagination, and pelleted over time across European religious beliefs, African, Gypsy and indigenous. The Pombagira presents syncretic way of alluding to the figure of a Spanish queen with Gypsy features, identifying himself as Maria Padilha of Castile and expressing itself in the rituals of the terraces of african-Brazilian religions. From research carried out on the primordial myth of Lilith, one can observe the mythical and behavioral similarities present in Pombagira entity with Lilith goddess, especially with regard to their rebellion and their longing for freedom, not accepting the restriction arising from institutions religious and cultural, trying, through male domination, control over females, inhibiting and putting the woman as an object, denying their condition as subjects in history.