The Worship of Sacred Jurema in Umbanda, from the Northeast (Alagoas) to the Southeast (Rio de Janeiro)
Jurema; Afro-Brazilian Religion; Brotherhood Surrounded by Seu Boiadeiro, Rio de Janeiro-RJ; Santa Bárbara Spiritist Union Group, Maceió-AL
This research entitled “The Cult of the Sacred Jurema in Umbanda, from the Northeast (Alagoas) to the Southeast (Rio de Janeiro)” carries out a study of two Afro-Brazilian houses of worship: the Irmandade do Cercado de Seu Boiadeiro (IBO), located in the neighborhood of Sepetiba, in the west of Rio de Janeiro, and Grupo União Espírita Santa Bárbara (GUESB), located on the outskirts of Cidade Universitária, Village Campestre II, Maceió, Alagoas, which both have the practice of Jurema Sagrada as a of ritual activities. The study of the houses described as the rites are performed in different spaces, which have - according to a survey carried out through field research - similarities, without, however, being carried out in the same way. It was not developed from the research of a similar context of deepening, but it was developed to study the practice of a deepening that can be a foundation of jurema, or of the practical jurema of deepening in the terreiros. The transit of Yalorixá Mãe Chica, from the Northeast to Rio de Janeiro and her spiritual and social trajectory are issues that must be understood in order to identify and describe a relationship between Mãe Chica and Yalorixá Mãe Neide, in Maceió and, consequently, which to know how influences on the ritual practice of GUESB were these internal/resignified from the contact. In this same context, it understands how the transit of the triple Matter of the construction of the perspective and the perspective of study and to be studied. This individual training that presents my trajectory started in Candomblé at the age of 14, migrated to Mãe Chica's Umbanda when I was 22 years old and then to Mãe Neide's Umbanda, 38 years old, and where I am until today. The particularity of this comparison is also the fact that I started in Umbanda of Chica Xavier 34 years ago and, later, ‘given’ to Yalorixá from Alagoas, Mãe Neide. Being part of the ritual in both sacred spaces, visualizing how Amerindian origins in the Jurema cult, in my perception, allow me to identify, in addition to influences and contributions of indigenous ethnicities, also Africans can be in the administration of this cult in Rio de Janeiro and in Alagoas, in the aforementioned terreiros.