Mo Júbà Òrìsà, Ìbà Onílè: ensinamentos da cosmologia yorubá para a reverência e a regeneração da vida na Terra [e a resistência dos povos de terreiro contra a ponte Salvador-Itaparica]

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate how the ethical and ontological principles of Yoruba cosmology guide the ecological cosmoperception of candomblé communities and inform their forms of resistance and struggle for territory in the context of the Anthropocene. Initially, we situate the ecological crisis within its global and Brazilian context, presenting scientific evidence and important cases of environmental catastrophes that illustrate the severity of the current ecological emergency. We also present the case of the Salvador-Itaparica Road System as an environmental disaster, based on the current struggle of the communities affected by the project against its implementation. Following this, we discuss the main concepts and categories of analysis, developed in the academic fields of decoloniality and postcolonialism, that are related to the ecological crisis, in order to elaborate a critical bibliographic review on the theme of decolonial ecology. Finally, we highlight the intrinsic relationship between Yoruba cosmological principles and the ecological ethics of the terreiro communities, through the analysis of the narratives of this population in their struggle against the Salvador-Itaparica bridge, reflecting on the concepts of Iyá, Asé, and Orisá as ethical and ontological principles of Yoruba cosmology that prominently guide the ecological cosmoperception of the terreiro communities, in their cosmo-sociability, in their ritualistic practices, and in their resistance movements for the territory. Concomitantly, we elaborate reflections on the importance of the ecological cosmoperception of the axé people in the context of the Anthropocene. This dissertation uses the methodology of elaborating three essays, through bibliographic review, document analysis, discourse analysis, and auto-ethnographic narrative. And this dissertation seeks to denounce the Salvador-Itaparica bridge as an imminent socio-environmental catastrophe of extremely serious impact, which could violate the material reality and the mythical universe of the terreiro communities of Baía de Todos os Santos and various other traditional communities, resulting in environmental, spiritual, and socioeconomic imbalance for the entire population of Bahia.