Africans

belief in the possibility to intervene with the material life by means of the supernatural use deforas -, how much the religion, that sends the systems, orientaes philosophical/speculations of the spirit and daf, is two conceptions that if interrelate forming a system deexplicao of the things of this world and the supernatural one, that they make possible vidamais integrated. In the religion of orixs quearticula exists a magical association the human being-natural actions with the supernatural forces. In Brazil, belief and umconjunto practical magician-religious of African matrices had given aoscandombls,> whose first literary references appear in century XIX. Otermo candombl belongs to the language banto, but in Brazil if it relates to the cultosreligiosos of origin iorub and daomeana. In candombl, asprincipais supernatural entities are known by orixs 1, when the biggest influence is of the civilization iorub; when the influence biggest da daomeana civilization, is voduns that they are cultuados and recognized comosobrenaturais. Voduns and orixs are ancestral entities and high divindade and cultuados heroes as founding of ancestries, kingdoms and city-states.

SegundoRoger Bastide, ' ' it is noticed that in all they, deuses, are Voduns or Orixs, find in narrow correspondence with the saints catlicos' '. (BASTIDE, 1971.361) Beyond the aspectofundacional, they are attributed all the orientation of the actions human beings to long davida the terrena one. Orixs if communicates by means of babalorixs by means of cultode possession, opening, through this, the contact direct with supernatural embusca of orientaes and solutions for the most diverse problems of the vidacotidiana. A informaointeressante of if standing out are that before century XIX candombls foramchamados of calundus mainly in the Bahia. In Africa, great part of orixs deserves specific cult from definitive regioou city, being of local or regional character the orientation in the cult form, being that few are orixs cultuados in all the territory iorub. The Africans deorigem banto had still had contact with the catolicismo in Africa, principalmenteno case of that had lived in Luanda or other centers of colonizaoportuguesa.