Reflexos no Abebé de Oxum: por uma narrativa mítica insubmissa e uma pedagogia transgressora

Abstract

In this article I started a communication with the myth of Oxum, Orixá of feminine energy from afro- brazilian religion candomblé. Discussions were made about the multiple processes of articulation and construction of non-hegemonic knowledge. The mythology of the Orixás, plus the whole set of signs, meanings and symbologies that are subjectively constructed, contains a language and a performance that contribute to the consolidation of cultural aspects. These aspects are responsible for the constitution of affiliations and belongings, generating an extremely complex particular ethos. In this text, through a description of a mythical narrative by Oxum, a subalternized epistemology is revealed. This epistemology of African origin suffers at the same time with cruel processes of epistemicides and ontoepistemicides, but it remains insurgent, transgressive and not submissive.