OS FILHOS DE XANGÔ: MEMÓRIAS DO TERREIRO DE PAI JOAQUIM DE XANGÔ.

Abstract

The children of Xangô: memories of FatherJoaquim of Xangô terreiro is a study on the memories of the terreiro Abassá of Xangô and Yansã, founded by Father Joaquim de Xangô in the 1980s, in the Fame neighborhood in Goiânia. A story that began in the 1970s in Serrinha neighborhood also headquartered in the city of Goiânia, at the Terreiro cabocla Juremeira led by the iolarixá Mother Joaninha deOxum, where Father Joaquim was initiated in Candomblé in 1974 by the babalaô Elicio Borges (who was born in Bahia). Father Joaquim de Xangô, as a large portion of babalaôs and ialorixás of Goiás, who had contact with religion in the capital, migrated to the rites of Umbanda to Yoruba, but even so, he kept a syncretic rite which worshiped orixás and entities of the earth, the Candomblé of Caboclo. The rite of candomblé of caboclo is a religious practice that emerged in the 1930s in Bahia, when mestizo sought to identify amid the sovereign ioruba and black, which prevailed at the time in the candomblé of Bahia of the time. Decades later, the rite would suit the religious landscape of south-central region of the country, where the rites of Candomblé were taken by migrants from the Northeast, as is the case of Goiânia. We believe in the relevance of our studies on the memories of the Terreiro Abassá of Xango and Yansã, led by Pai Joaquim de Xangô is important for understanding the practice of the religion of Candomblé in Goiânia, where the rite of Candomblé of caboclo became characteristic of Pais-de-santo who migrated of umbanda to religion ioruba.