Candomblé and / or Kandomblé

Candomblé is a designation for various cults, entitled United in which there is the cultivation of the deities. Being home and family totem, is one of the african-Brazilian religions practiced primarily in Brazil, called by the holy people, but also in other countries such as Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain .
The religion that is based on the anima (soul) of Nature and is therefore called the soul, was developed in Brazil with the knowledge of African priests who were enslaved and brought from Africa to Brazil, along with their Orishas / inquices / Voduns, their culture and language between 1549 and 1888.
Clarival Prado Valladares says in his article "The African Iconology in Brazil", in Revista Brasileira de Cultura (MEC and the Federal Council of Culture), Year I, July-September 1999, p. 37 that the "emergence of Candomblé with possession of land on the outskirts of towns and guild of believers and practice schedule there is only incidentally in documents and chronicles from the eighteenth century." The author finds it difficult to "any historian discovers documents directly related to the period prior practice allowed, or surreptitiously, from African rituals." The document more remote, he said, would be written by D. Frei Antônio de Guadalupe, Bishop Visitor of Minas Gerais in 1726, published in 'Commandments or chapters of the visit. "
Although originally confined to the population of African slaves, banned by the Catholic church, and even criminalized by some governments, Candomblé thrived for over four centuries, and expanded considerably since the end of slavery in 1888. It was established with followers of various social classes and tens of thousands of temples. In recent surveys, approximately 3 million Brazilians (1.5% of total population) have declared Candomblé as their religion. In the city of Salvador there are 2,230 registered religious communities in Bahia Federation of Afro-Brazilian Cults and cataloged by the Center for Afro-Oriental Studies of the UFBA (Federal University of Bahia) Mapping of Candomblé in Salvador. However, in Brazilian culture, religions are not seen as mutually exclusive, and many people of other faiths - up to 70 million, according to some Afro-Brazilian cultural organizations - participate in Candomblé rituals regularly or occasionally. Deities of Candomblé, the rituals and festivals are now an integral part of culture and a part of Brazilian folklore.

Candomblé should not be confused with Umbanda, Macumba, and / or Omoloko, other african-Brazilian religions with similar origin, and religion african-American counterparts in other New World countries such as Haitian Vodou, Cuban and Santeria, and Obeah, Trinidad and Tobago, the Shang (similar to Tchamba African Xamba Shango and the Northeast of Brazil) the Ourisha of origin Yorubaland, which were developed independently of Candomblé and are virtually unknown in Brazil.