Mãe-de-santo
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It sits within the topics Afro-Brazilian religion, Brazilian mythology and Candomblé.
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A mãe-de-santo or mãe de santo (, plural mães de santo ) is a priestess of Candomblé, Umbanda and Quimbanda, the Afro-Brazilian religions. Those Portuguese words mean literally "saint's mother", a calque of the Yoruba word iyalorisha, a title given to female leaders of the Yoruba religion. Iya means "mother", and the contraction ''l'orisha means "of orisha", adapted into Portuguese as "of saint" due to the traditionally Catholic-centric culture that surrounds that language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mãe-de-santo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.