Orixás
Subtitle: deuses iorubás na África e no Novo Mundo
By: Pierre Fatumbi Verger ; [tradução, Maria Aparecida da Nóbrega]
Contributors: Nóbrega, Cida, translator; Paulo Darzé Galeria de Arte
Edition: 1a edição.
Publisher: Fundação Pierre Verger; Fundacao Pierre Verger
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Salvador, Bahia
Language: por
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9788588971158
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; Orishas; Yoruba Gods
Work titles: Orisha
Description: The new edition of the book comes with new graphic design, and unpublished photos inserted, in addition to a preface by Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, Ialorixá do Axé Opô Afonjá. The book is the outcome of Pierre Fátúmbí Verger's constant travels to Africa between the years 1948 and 1965 and presents texts and illustrations that discuss and show certain aspects of the worship of the orixás, deities of the Yorubás, in their places of origin, in Africa (Nigeria, ex-Dahomey and Togo) and in the New World (Brazil and the Antilles), where they were taken for 150 years (1700 to 1850) as slaves.
Notes: Published in French: "Orisha: les dieux yorouba en Afrique et au nouveau monde". Paris : A.M. Métailié, 1982.

"Pierre Fatumbi Verger e sua obra": pages 303-306.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Entre Bahia e África" held at Paulo Darzé Galeria in July 2018.

Include bibliographical references (p. 297-301).
Table of contents: title: Apresentção / Gilberto Sá; title: Prefacio / Mãe Stella de Oxóssi; title: Um design para Verger / Enéas Guerra; title: Introdução. Definição do termo "ioruba"; title: Orixás; title: Iniciação; title: Cerimônias; title: Exú; title: Ogum; title: Oxóssi; title: Ossain; title: Orunmilá; title: Oranian; title: Xangô; title: Oiá-Iansã; title: Oxum; title: Obá; title: Iemanjá; title: Oxumaré; title: Obaluaê; title: Omolu; title: Xapanã; title: Nanã Buruku; title: Orixalá; title: Obatalá; title: Oxalá; title: Posfácio: O livro Orixás hoje.