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orixas
n. (plural of orixa English)
Usage examples of "orixas".
They are not used, because the candombl£ entertains relations only with the African orixas, but they are not cast out on that account.
The participants will be possessed not by orixas, but by the eguns, spirits of the departed.
In the umbanda the African orixas stay in the background, completely syncretized with Catholic saints, and these beings alone intervene.
There were no orixas, but you could sense their presence in the faces of the crowd and in the sweetish odor of cane and cooked foods, in the stench of sweat caused by the heat and by the excitement of the imminent gira.
Amparo discovered that the orixas, whom she has destroyed in her heart, still live in her womb.