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Làm thế nào để bắt đầu năm mới? Chúc Nữ thần Biển luôn hạnh phúc
23 Mar, 2024
người theo tôn giáo Afro-Brazil bị người vui chơi năm mới thay thế. Nhưng họ vẫn tìm cách thờ cúng cho đại dương
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Each New Year’s Eve, more than two million revelers — twice as many as typically fill Times Square — dress in white and pack Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro to watch a 15-minute midnight fireworks (pháo hoa) extravaganza.
The one-night hedonistic (chủ nghĩa khoái lạc) release is one of the world’s largest New Year’s celebrations and leaves Copacabana’s famed 2.4 miles of sand strewed with trash.
In the 1950s, followers of an Afro-Brazilian religion, Umbanda, began congregating on Copacabana on New Year’s Eve to make offerings (lễ vật) to their goddess of the sea, Iemanjá, and ask for good fortune in the year ahead.
It quickly became one of the holiest moments (khoảnh khắc thiêng liêng nhất) of the year for followers of a cluster of Afro-Brazilian religions that have roots in slavery, worship an array of deities and have long faced prejudice in Brazil.
Alongside beachgoers in bikinis and vendors selling beer and barbecued cheese, hundreds of worshipers were trying to make contact with one of their most important gods. Devotees believe that Iemenjá, who is often depicted (miêu tả) with flowing hair and a billowing blue-and-white dress, is the queen of the sea and a goddess (nữ thần) of motherhood and fertility.
Afro-Brazilian religions were largely created by slaves and their descendants (hậu duệ). From about 1540 to 1850, Brazil imported more slaves than any other nation, or nearly half of the estimated 10.7 million slaves brought to the Americas, according to historians.
The dove landed “at the moment we were asking for a good 2024, with health, prosperity and peace,” she said. “So, to me, it was a confirmation that my wish had been fulfilled.”
source: nytimes,
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