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Documentary "Voodoo Mysteries. Umbanda" Umbanda is based on the worship of the EGUN, beings with great spiritual light, strength and wisdom. Their objective is to attract these beneficial spirits so as to do good. Here, drums and rhythm play a fundamental role. Each spirit has its own beat and its own cadence. Their altars are dedicated to the same deities as in voodoo and santeria: EXU, OGGUN, the warrior, LEMANYA, the siren, OBATALA, the creator, XANGO, and the rest of the African pantheon. The "Pai de Santo" the Umbanda priest, draws the symbol of EXU on the ground. This is the Lord of the ways, the ancestral "Pai", the intermediary between men and spirits. He is compared with St Peter in syncretism. The "Pai de Santo" has been mounted by the invoked deity and is characterised with the attributes of EXU. This is a joker of a spirit that drinks and smokes a lot, but who is beneficial and loves children. Here the dark world of black magic exists too. Vodum fetishes from Dahomey which may exercise a sinister influence in a secret place. There are enormous umbanda temples, like this one in Rio de Janeiro, with hundreds of thousands of worshippers. Some of them have sports fields and other activities, and perform an important social function with orphanages, shelters and aid for poor districts. This is the evolution of a religion as old as man himself, which over time has been cleansed and become more sophisticated but which maintains its purest spiritual concepts.Periodically, the followers meet and perform sessions where our now familiar African deities descend to transmit their messages. The trances are not as sharp as in other religions, but they all encounter their friendly saint. Everything started one night in Africa, when a black man sacrificed a hen and he offered it to the spirits that he saw in the stars, gods that travelled as slaves and helped their faithful followers to gain their freedom. Perhaps everything that we have seen is not real. Perhaps spirits do not exist and do not live so closely alongside the living. In the West it is hard for us to believe in these religions, but bearing in mind that millions of human beings can feel these forces and are able to interpret them, it is worth our while to ask ourselves the question and allow ourselves to doubt. Voodoo Mysteries |    • Voodoo Mysteries   Full Documentaries playlist |    • Full Documentaries | Planet Doc Full Docum...   Culture documentaries playlist;    • Culture | Planet Doc Full Documentaries