O bailar do aprendizado: o Xirê Orixá como forma educacional na compreensão do ciclo da vida

Abstract

In the religious tradition of the Candomblé ritual known as Xire Orisa - focus of the article - is the ritual feast that is listed on the birth celebration of a fan within a yard of Candomble community or even to honor some deity in specific. This festival is seen in the liturgy as a way to unite the components of the same family saint and presents to other families invited, the joy of the birth of another new member of the community. In this festive family celebration, inherited by Africans who came to Brazil as slaves, the central point of this act, mainly connected with communication to the ancestors and the interpretation of the life cycle, to be initiated by Èsú and closed by Ossaalaa, the worldview religious related these main points go through two important principles: the first is treated as an important factor of the initial principle and dynamic of all beings, where the act of being born into the candomble is the purity and ingenuity printed in the newborn. The second principle is characterized by the final moment of the evolutionary state, ie, discontinuity of the growth process initiated by the first one, according to the time starts to gradually lose this dynamic force to cease it altogether. For the new fan, known as Yawo, these two principles passed as an educational way by Yalorixás and the Babalorixás your community is seen as the main point of his religious formation where the teachings through orality are irrigated mythic and ritualistic content to religious educational strengthening the same and thus, promote the upwelling of learning, in order to analyze the ritual as one of the world representation elements but at the same time reflects a dynamic integration of faithful in the world. your spiritual routine, even when inside or outside the circle part.