Nagos
Brazilian Yoruba people and their preserved religious traditions.
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Nagos refers to all Brazilian Yoruba people, their African descendants, and the Yoruba myth, ritual, and cosmological patterns they preserved. The term derives from anago, a word Fon-speaking people used for Yoruba-speaking people from the kingdom of Ketu. Toward the end of the slave trade in the 1880s, the Nagos were the African group most often shipped to Brazil and became the largest ethnic group in the country.
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- Yoruba ritual practices include singing, dancing, drumming, spirit possession, ritual healing, respect for ancestors, and divination.
- Yoruba religion is a ritual negotiation with the spirits of the Dead.
- The Yoruba religion stems from western Nigeria, where it mixed with Christian practices.
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- Wikipedia: Nagos (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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