Yaloríxá
Priestess of the Orishas; the keeper of the ancestral and the
Orishas’ knowledge, which conducts by the behavior and the
oral traditions the components of the Sacred House; she
represents
the surviving of the millenarian matriarchal African
raising in the resistance of the
African-Brazilian Culture; “mãe-de-santo” (mother-of-saint); when the chief of
a Sacred
House is a man, the correspondent term is babalorixá (babalorishah).
Ylê
From the Yoruba “Ilé”: house; sacred house, place of mythic origin.
Zumbi
Historical character of great relevance; he was the leader of the“Quilombo (hiding-place)
of Palmares from 1648 to 1695, the year
of his death and fall of his city. He defeated
many expeditions that
attempted to destroy the “quilombo”, in order to “re-slave” its
components. Combative warrior, he intended to impose a state,
free from slavery in
the “Capitania” (former State, hist.) of
Pernambuco in the zenith of the sugarcane
economic cycle. Today
he is considered a hero of the Black people’s resistance in Brazil;
it is a variation of “Zambi”, an Angolan war myth
