Oxossi, O Caçador Encantado
The following pictures are part of an Oshosi myth narrated by the artist using clay images.The work is titled “Oxossi, O Caçador Encantado (Oshosi, the Enchanted Hunter).”This collection was published in Salvador, Bahía by the Fundação Gregório de Mattos.Though the collection is undated, it may still be available directly from the Fundação. Anyone interested may contact them through their website: http://www.pms.ba.gov.br/fgm/
Captions: These captions are literal
transcriptions
from the English translations on the back of the cards
in the collection.
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| Oshosi in party garment. Most common in procession where Alaketu participates. | Oshosi in the garment with which he is most known in Brazil. | Oshosi on Dahomean ritual throne, Alaketu (King of Ketu) with Royal akete (hood). |
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| This story begins when Yemojá had three children: Ogún, Eshú and Oshosi. Ogún worked in fields (agriculture), Eshú lived free and Oshosi was the hunter in the neighborhood. | From the union of the elephant hunter [Erinle] with Oshún Iponda, Logunedé was born. Who was the particularity of living six months on group, feeding himself on prey, and other six months in the waters, eating fish. | One day Oshosi went far away for hunting and found Osain in the woods. Osain tired of living alone prepared a beverage, made of leaves, which caused amnesia and offered it to Oshosi so that he stayed there in his company. |