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Chthonia Episode 46

Pomba Gira

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  • Brigid Burke
 |  24 Jan 2021
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Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 63 minutes | Recorded on 9 Dec 2020

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This week we look at Pomba Gira, sometimes a single term for a powerful female spirit, at other times the title of a group of spirits. A spirit with many avatars, most notably Maria Molambo (Maria of the Trash), Pomba Gira is a highly sexualized and sometimes dangerous female figure in the Afro-Brazilian rituals of both Umbanda and Quimbanda. We look at her origins in powerful African earth mothers, and her role as a power figure for the oppressed.

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