orishas
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The meeting of the forests
There is a moment in Brazilian religious history that tends to receive less attention than it deserves. A moment when different traditions, coming from distinct continents, found ways to dialogue without completely losing their identities. This encounter happened amid the violence of colonization and slavery. It was from this context that some of Brazil’s most…
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Oxóssi and Ossaim
I have already spoken of the forest as a monument a landscape built over thousands of years by the hands of Indigenous peoples. Today I want to look at it in another way, as mystery. Because the forest also holds knowledge; it shelters remedies, food, stories, and paths that are not always written in books.…
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Moths and orixás
For a long time, science believed that several moths belonged to the same species. They were found in different regions of Brazil and received a single name: Eois russearia. It seemed simple. But nature is rarely as simple as it seems. Researchers from Unicamp and USP gathered different types of evidence: morphological characteristics, genetic analyses,…