Quem disse que Exu não monta? Abdias Nascimento, o cavalo do santo no terreiro da história

• Autor(a) principal: Natalino, Geraldo Jose
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21981
• topic: Exu (Orixá); Orixás; Mística; Religiosidade; Eshú (Afro-Caribbean deity); Orishas; Mystical; Religiosity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS

This work addresses the mystical experience between Adbias Nascimento (1914-2011) and his relationship with the orixá Exu in the context of mystical patronage. Using the metaphor “saint’s horse” (“cavalo do santo”) we investigated the vital place that orixá occupied into Abdias’ long-lived and multifaceted trajectory (political, theater, painting, poetry etc.) To think about the mystique (or “mystical biography”) under the African and diasporic approach implied to acess other geographies, logics, rationalities and epistemologies. We start from the assumption that the decolonization of minds’ process requires, within the Afro-Brazilian context, the work of decolonization of mystics. In Brazil, Abdias is an iconic figure with regard to combat racism and simulacrum, the “myth of racial democracy”. But, Abdias’ trajectory was not simply the intermittent combat against the genocide of the black population; the scholar and activist was a persistent defender and propagator of African diasporic history and it’s cultural and religious values. From a catholic cradle, Abdias converted to candomblé where he found the ancestral sap that fecundated his life. Thus, the trajectory of the scholar and black activist is not explained outside the religious afro-diasporics referentials. From a Catholic crib, Abdias converted to candomblé where he found the ancestral sap that fecundated his life. In this way, the trajectory of the intellectual and black scholarship is not explained by Afro-diasporic religious references. The orixás filled the life of the mystic-fighter of power, charm and dynamism; and Exu, unmistakably, constuted the force and motive force of all its multifaceted and polyphonic existence. His death was celebrated with the honor of a hero and an ancestor. Its ashes were deposited in Serra da Barriga - in Quilombo dos Palmares. We defend, therefore, in our work, that the heroic vision of the revolted Negro, or as it has also been called, the "angry Quixote", rests on a religious basis, which can put Abdias Nascimento, considered under the lens of religiosity, in the role of great mysteries of the history of humanity