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Èṣù

Title
Èṣù / Juana Elbein dos Santos e Deoscoredes Maximiliano dos Santos, Mestre Didi Aṣipa.
Author
Santos, Juana Elbein dos
Publication
Salvador : Corrupio, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Santos, Deoscoredes Maximiliano dos
  • Evans, Henri G. J.
Description
166 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
Summary
"I have worked on two essays. One is an anthropological attempt to place Èṣù within the whole of the culture that in Bahia we call Nagô, the Yoruba of West Africa; the other approaches Èṣù as the driving principle of individual life."--Page [7].
Alternative Title
Èṣù/Exu/Eshu
Subject
  • Exu
  • Esu (Afro-Caribbean deity)
  • Orishas
  • Gods, Yoruba
  • Gods, Yoruba > Brazil > Salvador
  • Yoruba (African people) > Religion
  • Afro-Brazilian cults
  • Incantations, Yoruba
  • Incantations, Yoruba > Translations into Portuguese
  • Incantations, Yoruba > Translations into English
Note
  • English translation by Henri Evans, Department of Modern Languages, University of Ibadan.
  • "This work follows on 'West African Ritual and Sacred Art in Brazil' (Santos; Santos, 1967), a study completed in 1967. It is therefore, similarly, a comparative study of the religious system of the so-called Nagô in Brazil and its original elements in West Africa."--Page 16.
  • The related 1967 work was issued under the title: West African sacred art and rituals in Brazil : a comparative study / Deoscoredes M. dos Santos (Mestre Didi). It was written with the collaboration of Juana Elbein, New York.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 166).
Language (note)
  • In Portuguese, English (translated from the Portuguese), and Yoruba, with oracular texts in Yoruba translated into Portuguese and English.
Contents
Èṣù bara láróyè = Exu bará laroiê : um estudo comparativo = Eshu bara laroye : a comparative study -- Exu bará : princípio da vida individual no sistema Nagô = Èṣù bara : principle of individual life in the Nagô system.
Call Number
Sc F 15-437
ISBN
  • 9788586551475
  • 8586551473
OCLC
897826281
Author
Santos, Juana Elbein dos, author.
Title
Èṣù / Juana Elbein dos Santos e Deoscoredes Maximiliano dos Santos, Mestre Didi Aṣipa.
Publisher
Salvador : Corrupio, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 166).
Language
In Portuguese, English (translated from the Portuguese), and Yoruba, with oracular texts in Yoruba translated into Portuguese and English.
Added Author
Santos, Deoscoredes Maximiliano dos, author.
Evans, Henri G. J., translator.
Research Call Number
Sc F 15-437
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