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This Sunday (17), thousands of people occupied Paulista Avenue to participate in the 3rd edition of the March for Exu, an event that combines religiosity, art and cultural resistance. The mobilization highlighted the importance of African matrix religions and the role of Orixá Exu, considered guardian of the paths, communication and vital energy.
Paulista Avenue receives 3rd edition of the March for Exu, celebrating Faith and Afro-Brazilian Culture. Photo: Reproduction
This year’s theme, “It was never luck, it has always been a macumba”, stressed the character of affirmation of the Afro-Brazilian identity, fighting historical stigmas and prejudices that mistakenly associate Exu with demonic figures. The event stressed that these distorted interpretations arose from colonial and Christianized readings, which ignored the richness and symbolic depth of African spirituality.
“Today the story was written on Paulista Avenue. More than 800,000 voices echoed together in the name of Exú and Pombegira. Love won prejudice, faith overcame intolerance. The march to Exú is giant because Exú is the way, life, resistance,” said the organization of the march.
More than a religious celebration, the realization is a political and cultural act, valuing candomblé, Umbanda and other ancestral traditions such as living heritage in the country.
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