THE WATER IN THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGION CANDOMBLÉ: THE HUMAN-NATURE RELATIONSHIP AND THE GEOGRAPHICITY OF THE MYSTHICAL SPACE

Abstract

The water takes on different meanings depending on the relationship, the instincts and the emotions that arouse social groups. It may be a natural resource, climate placating, headquarters of satiety source, a compound or chemical formula, means of transport, tourist attraction, irrigating plants, merchandise makes a profit, a source of inspiration for artists, a metaphor for modernity, nature of the element to be respected and loved, soul purification tool in many religions. Anyway, the water makes up our guts, it is in all living beings and in our relations with the world. In this work the analysis will focus on the deities linked to the worldview of the water, either fresh water or salt water, as well as other elements related to it: wind, rain, storm, thunder, lightning, rainbow, marsh. Find yourself will understand the man-nature-myth relationship as a way of apprehending the world and the multiple ways in which the man it is part and he converses, from references and theoretical and methodological contribution of cultural humanistic geography. Orishas, here particularly of water, contributed to the African slaves made re-do their worldview in Brazil.