Tambor de Mina | |
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![]() The interior of Casa das Minas, with a photo of the last complete initiation ceremony (boat of tobossis), in 1914. The floor is made of clay | |
Type | Syncretic |
Classification | Afro-Brazilian |
Theology | Mixture of West African religions such as Yoruba and Dahomey religion, as well as Catholicism. |
Origin | Slave era Maranhão, Brazil |
Part of a series on Vodun related religions called |
Voodoo |
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Yoruba religion |
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Tambor de Mina is an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition, practiced mainly in the Brazilian states of Maranhão, Piauí, Pará and the Amazon rainforest.[1]