òrìṣà is the spelling in the Yoruba language, orixá in Portuguese, and orisha, oricha, orichá or orixá in Spanish-speaking countries. According to the...

West African deities, the orixás are linked with Roman Catholic saints. Each individual is believed to have a tutelary orixá who has been connected to...

Orixa may refer to: Orixa (plant), a genus of plants in the family Rutaceae Orixa (moth), the synonym of a genus of moths in the family Erebidae Orixa...

Orixa is an alternative rock/rock en español duo from the United States. Members are Rowan Jimenez and Juan Manuel Caipo. Orixa's music mixes many different...

is the orixá of sickness and healing. Xangô is linked to thunder and lightning, as well as to stone working and quarrying. Ogúm is the orixá of war,...

Orixa japonica, commonly called East Asian orixa or Japanese orixa, is a deciduous shrub growing to 3 metres (10 ft) with an equal spread. Native to China...

existence. Ketu's deities are called Orixá. Orixá control the destiny of the people and act as a guardian. Orixá also represent different forces in nature...

lightning and thunder. He became the patron orixa of plantations and many Candomblé terreiros. In contrast Oko, the orixá of agriculture, found little favor among...

Subfamily: Hypeninae Genus: Xoria Nye, 1975 Species Xoria filifera (Walker, 1869) Synonyms Generic Orixa Walker, 1869 Specific Orixa filifera Walker, 1869...

Laurentino as Orixá Exu Anderson Grillo as Quero-Quero Sérgio Pererê as Orixá Ossaim Adriana Alves as Orixá Oxum Jessica Barbosa as Orixá Iansã/Dinorá...

as Candomblé. The first acarajé in a Candomblé ritual is offered to the orixá Exu. They vary in size based on their offering to a specific deity: large...

people frequently wear beads, which serve as representations for their orixá. They rely on these beads for protection in the most trying of circumstances...

Yemanjá that are placed in the pegi, the room or space dedicated to an orixá, include: Dishes and porcelain Earthen basins Fruits: obi (Cola acuminata)...

other animals are offered as sacrifice to Exu. In each offering made to an orixá, a part of the food is separated and dedicated to Exu. In the syncretic...

Traditionally speaking, for sacrificial offerings to Obatala, considered an orixá-funfun (literally "white orisha"), the animals or their parts should be...

divergence angle changes as the plant grows. In orixate phyllotaxis, named after Orixa japonica, the divergence angle is not constant. Instead, it is periodic...

preceitos--transgressão, reparação e organização dinâmica do mundo". Culto aos orixás: voduns e ancestrais nas religiões afro-brasileiras (in Portuguese). Rio...

the curing of diseases. In the African-Brazilian religion Umbanda, the orixá Omolu personifies sickness and death as well as healing. The image of the...

1057/9780230609938_9. ISBN 978-1403977861. Bahia, Joana (2016). "Dancing with the Orixás: Music, Body and the Circulation of African Candomblé Symbols in Germany"...

manifestations of natural energies. The capoeira player in past usually had his orixá or santo (patron saint) as Ogum (the Warrior) or Oxóssi (the Hunter). Capoeira...

Instituto Brasileiro de Educação, Ciência e Cultura. 1953. p. 118. Espaço-Orixá-Sociedade: arquitetura e liturgia do candomblé (in Portuguese) (2nd ed.)...

pombagira may derive from the Bantu word bombogira, the name of a male orixá in Candomblé's Bantu or Angola tradition. In Brazilian Portuguese, the term...

cortas: Los mosquitos de orixá Changó, Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association (PALARA), # 1, 1997: 138-142. Orixá Changó's Mosquitos,...

quitute, quindim, acarajé, moqueca; Religious concepts: mandinga, macumba, orixá ("orisha"), axé; Afro-Brazilian music: samba, lundu, maxixe, berimbau; Body-related...

pp. 108–109, 240. ISBN 9788567855264. Araujo, Carlos de (1993). ABC dos orixás (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Nordica. pp. 72–74. ISBN 9788570072252...

Dan or Bessen is called Oxumarê in Candomblé Ketu. Conversely, the Ketu Orixás may be worshiped in Jejé houses, but retain their names. Voduns are organized...

which he was later imprisoned for two years. He also authored a book called Orixás, Caboclos and Guias in which he attacks Afro-Brazilian religion, accusing...

ABC dos orixás (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Nordica. pp. 57–60. ISBN 9788570072252. Magalhães, Elyette Guimarães de (2003). Orixás da Bahia (in...

Quimbanda in Brazil. She is the consort of Exu, who is the messenger of the Orixas in Candomblé. Known by many names, or avatars, Pombajira is often associated...

from Africa, cowrie shells (called búzios) are also used to consult the Orixás divinities and hear their replies. Cowrie shells were among the devices...