In the early afternoon of Friday (28), the court ruled that the body of the mother Stella of Oxóssi, who died on Thursday (27), at the age of 93, was buried in Salvador, where she works. the land Ilé Axé Opô Afonjá, founded by ialorixá.
Artists and authorities mourn the death of Mother Stella
The body of her mother began to be veiled in front of the town hall of Nazaré, in the Agglomeration of Bahia, this Friday morning (28). But around 1:30 pm, after the court decision, relatives and friends closed the funeral and sent the body of ialorixá to the capital, Bahia.
The court's decision to bring the body to Bahia was announced by Maíra Vida, Chairperson of the Special Committee to Combat Religious Intolerance of the OABs, and by the Law Judge of the Comarca of Nazaré Caroline Rosa of Almeida Velame Vieria. .
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L burial of Mother Stella of Oxóssi created a deadlock between the parents of the ialorixá and his companion, Graziela Dhomini, since the morning of this Friday morning, when, according to Ribamar Daniel, president of the Society of Holy Cross of Afonjá, the maintenance manager of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjáa, sister and nephew of Mother Stella, brought a lawsuit demanding that the body of the ialorixá be brought to Salvador.
The children of Mother Stella and Ilê Axé members
Mother Stella's funeral was even announced by her partner, Graziela Dhomini, who was sentenced to death at age 18, at 4 am this Friday in Nazareth, where she was lived with Mother Stella.
According to Ribamar Daniel, President of the S Company of the Holy Cross of Afonjá, responsible for the maintenance of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá terreiro, the body of Mother Stella must be subjected to the camdomblé rituals before being buried.
"The family wants the body to come [para Salvador] to fulfill its obligations, internal rituals, precepts that no one knows, we want it to be buried with dignity", he declared.
By G1 Graziela said that it was by Mother Stella's will to be buried in Nazareth. She further stated that she had not received any court order. "It's just the body, it's in me, a person from Terreiro approached me and asked if I could sing for it, and of course, I would not deny it. not, but about the burial, I respect a wish of her, "he said.
After the court's decision regarding the transfer of the body, O G1 contacted Graziela's lawyer, who stated that he did not have access to the decision . The lawyer also stated that "religious relations can not exceed the individual relations of each person. [Mãe Stella] outsourced this [de ser enterrada em Nazaré]", and who will file an appeal on appeal to seize the decision.
Since 2017, Mother Stella lived in the city of Nazareth, about 210 km from Salvador. She left Salvador to live there as a result of a misunderstanding between the sons of St. Lawrence of the land Ax Axé Opô Afonjá, in the capital, and his companion, Graziela.
Mother Stella of Oxóssi left the land and went to the city of São Paulo. living in Nazaré – Photo: Reproduction / Bahia TV
Regarded as one of the country's largest ialorixas, Mother Stella was born May 2, 1925 in Salvador. She was the fourth daughter of Esmeraldo Antigno dos Santos and Thomázia de Azevedo Santos.
At the age of 13, her aunt, who raised her, took her to the land of Mother Aninha, founder of Ilê Ax Opô Afonjá. A year later, it was launched in candomblé. In his youth, he always liked to read. She graduated as a nurse, a profession she had been practicing for 30 years. In 1976, at the age of 51, she was chosen by the Orixás to become the new leader of the Terreiro de São Gonçalo do Retiro. Mother Stella was the fifth ialorixa to order Ilê Axé Opó Afonjá.
In 1999, Mother Stella had the terreiro registered by the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (Iphan).
In 2005, he received an honorary doctorate from the Federal University of Bahia (Ufba). Four years later, he received the same degree from the State University of Bahia. In addition, Mother Stella received the Order of the Knight, the State Government and the Order of Merit, Ministry of Culture, with the commendation Maria Quitéria, of the Salvador City Hall.
Scientist and spokesperson for African religion, Mother Stella was the first ialorixá in Brazil to write books and articles on candomblé. In 2013, she was unanimously elected to the Bahia Academy of Letters, where she was named President 33, under the patron of the poet Castro Alves.
The religious, cultural and social leader of his people has always condemned religious syncretism. For the mother of St. Stella of Oxóssi, candomblé is candomblé and Catholicism, Catholicism. He did not agree with the merger between saints and orishas.
Always concerned about preserving black culture, Mother Stella participated in conferences and gave lectures. In Ilê Ax Opô Afonjá, he installed the first open-air museum in a candomblé house, where you can see the clothes and objects used by the mothers of the house and the orixás.
The book "Mother Stella of Oxóssi – Estrela our, the simplest", work of the writer Marcos Santana, tells the story of the life of the ialorixá with poems, testimonies, criticisms and badyzes of some of his intellectual productions. The works were launched in 2014, in Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá terreiro.
The book is a collection that combines historical and cultural rescue with texts by several authors such as: Edivaldo Boaventura, Muniz Sodré, Antonio Olinto, Jorge Amado, Fernando Coelho, Fr. Arnaldo Lima, Dorival Caymmi, Jorge Portugal, Menininha dos Gantois, Shadow of Xango, Marcos Santana and Mother Stella herself.
In 2014, she was also honored by Flica, a literary festival held every year in the city of Cachoeira, in the Recôncavo Baiano. At the same time, he set up the traveling library by adapting a bus to transport books dealing with curiosities concerning all religions. He preached mutual respect and peaceful coexistence among all beliefs so that people could come closer by faith.
More than a priestess of one of the country's largest candomblé terreiros, Mother Stella de Oxóssi was an activist of the cultural rescue of a city.
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