Mortos, ancestralidade e eguns entre os viventes dos candomblés de Maceió, Alagoas

Abstract

In Brazilian Candomblés, dead people, eguns and ancestors are potential beings that continually make themselves present and arrange (new) diverse relationships with people from the terreiro and even with people outside the community. In this thesis, I’ve tried to present events in which the death, dead and the eguns, are not only delicate and dangerous, but also – and this is one of the central issues – protective and counseling beings. From field research, developed with two candomblés from Maceió, Alagoas, I’ve describe the importance of the dead when promoting new encounters, associations and demands in the terreiros. I’ve take these beings as pluripotentialities (SANTOS, 2015) that, together with other beings, elements and people, underlie the dynamics, daily life, community life and axé of Candomblé. Thus, notions such as inheritance and saint families, carnal inheritance, orixá inheritance, ancestry and others, developed in the encounter with the countryside, are fundamental to understand how death in terreiros enables the continuity and safeguard of experiences that go beyond the religious aspect.