Brazilian mythology

Yemọja (also: Yemaja, Yemanjá, Yemoyá, Yemayá; there are many different transliterations in other languages) is a major water deity in the Yoruba religion. She is an oriṣa, and the patron spirit of rivers, particularly the Ogun River in Nigeria, and of oceans in Cuban and Brazilian Orisha religions. She is often syncretized with either Our Lady of Regla in the Afro-Cuban diaspora or various other Virgin Mary figures of the Catholic Church, a practice that emerged during the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Yemọja is said to be motherly and strongly protective, and to care deeply for all

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name given by Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett to an indigenous city that he claimed existed in the jungle of the Mato Grosso region of Brazil

myths and folklore of Brazil

thumb|right|Statue of an exú, one of the spirits that are central to Quimbanda Quimbanda, also spelled Kimbanda (), is an Afro-Brazilian religion practiced primarily in the urban city centers of Brazil.

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