"EVERYONE EATS"... RENEWAL OF THE STRENGTH OF THE HOUSE ÁBASSÁ D'ANGOLA TÁTA BOKULÊ IN BOA VISTA-RORAIMA
Angolan Candomblé - Animal sacralization - Meeting of Knowledges
This study consists of an ethnography about the house Ábassá D’Angola Táta Bokulê in Boa Vista, through the life trajectory of its founder, Luiz Carlos Rocha Fournier - Táta Bokulê. Religious leader, political activist and master of traditional knowledge, Carlos Alberto de Souza Fournier Filho/ Tata Bokùlê was born on December 26, 1964, in Manaus, Amazonas. He was initiated into Candomblé Nação Angola by Táta dia Nkisi Mutalembê (Jose Wilson Falcão Real) for the nkisi (orixá) NGongombira, receiving the dijina (name) Tata Bokùlê. A priest with thirty-eight years of initiation and more than seventy sons of saints, he founded at the end of the 1980s the house Abasa NGola Ngunzu Tata Bokùlê dia NGongombila, the first traditional Angolan community in Boa Vista, Roraima. As a political activist in favor of the rights of the communities of Terreiro in Roraima, Tata Bokùlê was actively involved in the discussion about Law No. which establishes norms for the protection of domestic and wild animals that could criminalize the sacralization of animals in houses of African origin. This work therefore aims to analyze animal sacralization from the perspective of the terreiro people, focusing on the house and the priestly and political activities of Táta Bokulê. In addition, this ethnography aims to think about his trajectory as a religious leader, his relationship with his sons of saint and the transmission of his knowledge in the terreiros and at the Federal University of Roraima, as a master and professor in the Project Meeting of Knowledges.