User:Yashaai/Umbanda's Exu
Umbanda's Exu, or Law's Exu, according to Umbanda, is a type of spirit, that can be in several stages of enlightment, that help in spiritual works, incorporating or not a medium, when they work in the Laws of Umbanda
Because of the Catholic influence in the colonization and the political-social formation of Brazil. Exu was soon associated with the Devil even in the beginning of Umbanda. Even nowadays, there are several times that Umbanda still evokes that syncretism.
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Umbanda's Exu is a spiritual entity, supposedly the spirit of someone that was born and died, therefore belongs to the so called "povo de rua or "catiço".[1]
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- ^ "As ressignificações de Exu". ucg.br. Archived from the original on 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2014-09-29.