O sagrado (re)velado em narrativas orais de mulheres quilombolas de Santíssima Trindade - Pará

Abstract

This research aims to understand the sacred (re)veiled in oral narratives of women from the Santíssima Trindade-Pará Community. The social relevance of giving time and voice to knowledge, religiosity and customs of those who inhabit or have inhabited marginal spaces, reflecting their narratives in search of identifying possible temporal interferences, and also what the Community represents through their voices. For this, the investigation presented a methodology with a qualitative approach with descriptive characteristics, considering the oral narratives of three quilombola women from the Santíssima Trindade community. The constitution of the data took place through observation, interview, informal conversations, audiovisual record and notebook. The results show that the sacred is (re)veiled through manifestations of religious rituals with devotion to the saints, mainly to São Pedro - the patron saint of the Community, as well as in rituals of healing with herbs or rezadeiras. It is noteworthy that the sacred is also (re)veiled through elementary or more elaborate hierophanies such as the human one. It is concluded that in the sacred (re)veiled in oral narratives of the women of the quilombola community Santíssima Trindade there is an intertwining between life and memory to the history of the Community itself, becoming a source of knowledge to know the history of the place where the sacred is (re)veils with representation and belonging to the community of black and quilombola women, in addition to a totalizing ideology.