Le mal dans la conception du Candomblé
Evil in the View of the Candomblé

Summary/Abstract: The proposal for this paper, “It seems that the fear of suffering and death has the pictorial representation of his fears, to appease them and to take them under control” refers to Gilbert Durand, who writes:“configuring an image of evil, a danger of sorts, symbollising anguish is a form of taking control, of mastering these by virtues of the cogito”. In Brazilian society exist different highly potent symbolic systems, among them that of Candomblé. An Afro-Brazilian religion, Candomblé is a Orixás worship, where deities are associated with the elements of nature (water, land, forest, fire, lightning, air, etc.). Here we seek to observe how the representations developed in a Candomblé ritual of synthetic structure (disséminatoire), master anxiety by re-signifying core elements within the culture, space and time, balancing the various energies of good and ill in nature.

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