A tradição oral do candomblé

Abstract

The aim of the present work is to analyze the importance of the orality to the Candomblé religion, and to verify how this process of transmission and maintenance of knowledge occurs between generations of believers. Word, sound and memory acquire a conception of prominence in religion, which disseminates the basis of their knowledge through speech and the wisdom passed on orally, concretizing it through experience. Rituals, myths and orality, as well as the worship of the orixás from Africa, remain in Brazil, keeping their tradition in an eternal search for origins. In order to verify how the dissemination of knowledge and the preservation of tradition occur, interviews were conducted with personalities of the Candomblé of the city of Barbacena / MG. The testimony of the religious shows a need to maintain orality as the main form of transmission of knowledge and as a form of maintenance of the worship of the orixás