círio de nazaré - romaria de padre cícero - festa de são jorge - Belém, Juazeiro do Norte, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

ANY MEETING OF THOUSAND OF PEOPLE CAUSES A SHOCK AND IF JOINED TO FAITH… WE"LL HAVE AN OVERWHELMING DEMONSTRATION. WE ARE DOMINATED FOR THE ENERGY THAT EMANATES OF THOUSAND OF PEOPLE AND FLOWS BY AIR. SOME MOMENTS ARE OF ABSOLUTE DEVOTION AND OTHERS OF ABSOLUTE JOY AND SOME ARE ABSOLUTELY MOVING MOMENTS. THESE THREE WAYS, UNEVEN AND UNIQUE, COMPLEMENT ITSELF AND DEMONSTRATE WITH SIMPLICITY THE BELIEF THAT FEEDS SO MANY HEARTS, THE DEVOTION FOR ITS SAINTS AND PATRONS AND THE UNSHAKEBLE BELIEF THAT MOVES THESE MULTITUDES IN DIRECTION TO THEIR REVERENCE PLACES AND CULT. SACRED AND PROFANE MIX TOGHETER TO CONFIGURE A HUMAN'S BEING PICTURE.THE SYNCRETISM THAT AMALGAMATES PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS IS PART OF OUR CULTURE. HYBRID AT FIRST AND "ANTROPOFÁGICA" AFTER ALL.

" Only Anthropophagy join us socially, economically, philosophically. The law of the world. Masked expression of all individualism, of all colletivism . Of all religions. Of all peace treaties.

Tupi, or not Tupi that is the question."

OSWALD OF ANDRADE In "Piratininga Year 374 of the Deglutition of the Sardinha Bishop" (Magazine of Anthropophagy, Year 1, In. 1, May of 1928.)