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Confidence
Belief overview
Ancestrality and eguns
Ancestors and ritualized dead occupy an important place in cosmology and religious memory.
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Supportive
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Contrary
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Neutral
What it is: Candomblé values ancestrality, ritual lineage, and, in some contexts, the specific cult or handling of eguns and other forms of presence of the dead.
How the religion understands it: The relation with ancestors helps organize memory, authority, belonging, and care between the living and the dead.
Basis and context: This belief is linked to African roots of the religion and to the importance of succession of house and family of saint.
Debates and variations: Not all houses treat the theme in the same way, and certain knowledges are particularly reserved.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
José Beniste, Òrun-Àiyé
A work on cosmology, the person, and relations between worlds.
Reference: José Beniste, Òrun-Àiyé.
Content: The book deals with cosmology, orí, the relationship between the visible and invisible worlds, and Yorùbá-matrix categories in the Brazilian context.
Use in debate: It is useful for sacred hierarchy, divination, orí, and ritual cosmology.
Juana Elbein dos Santos, The Nagô and Death
A classic study of ancestry, personhood, and death in the Nagô matrix.
Reference: Juana Elbein dos Santos, The Nagô and Death.
Content: The book examines personhood, ancestry, death, orí, and cosmological structures within the Nagô matrix.
Use in debate: It is foundational for orí, destiny, ancestry, and relations between the living and the dead.
Oral tradition of the eguns and ancestry
Ancestral memory and relationship with ritualized dead.
Reference: Oral traditions linked to eguns, ancestors, and ritual succession.
Content: The memory of the dead, of the elders, and of the lineages guides authority and belonging in the terreiro.
Use in debate: It is a central source for ancestry and ritual continuity.