Small Umbanda Dictionary

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Small Umbanda Dictionary

Abaré: Developed Médium already.

Abaré-Guassu: Great work.

Abaré-Mirim: Médium in beginning of development.

Earthenware bowl: Adobe canister where if it places votiva food.

Village: Place of fetichism; Temple; It is the set of people in contained it (caboclo).

Amassi or Amaci: Prepared sacred leaf liquid, macerated in water, leaving
to rest during seven days. It is destined to bathe the head of médiuns. The leves are of orixá head of the temple and of Ossain.

Moored: State of the individual reached for maleficent vibrations, that harm its life, its businesses.

Amulet: Object with protective purpose (to be able passive), that it is brought hung to the neck, I obtain in the clothes, kept in the pocket, the stock market or house. It is considered that it has the power to move away the bad fluids that bring illnesses, harm luck, death, etc. Can be medal, figure, registration or objects, inside of a sachet or any “prepared” object, for defense, of any material: rock, ivory, wood, metal, cloth, etc.


Device: The person who serves of support for the “descending” of orixá or of the entity of médium assigns.

Aruanda: Sky; place where deferred payment orixás and the superior entities.

Ajeum: Name given for the served votivas foods inside of the place of fetichism.


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Babá: Term that enters in great number of words, with different meanings. In the father direction, it composes the name of different priests: Babalorixá; Babaojê; Babalaô; Babalossain; etc. Feminine head in the temples of umbanda; headings of Orixá in candomblés.

Babalorixá: Masculine head of place of fetichism; Priest of candomblé; or of umbanda (umbanda also uses it = Babalaô). Called popularly “father-of-saint”, dirige in such a way the administrative body as the sacerdotal. It substitutes the Axogum; spoon can the sacred grass. It guides the life spiritual of the religious community.

To lower: to possess on the part of orixá or entity, the body of a son or son of saint.

Band: Place of entity origin.

Soon: Species of patuá; small envelope of cloth or leather, I contend a conjunct or image of saint. Used as protection.

Donkey: Used term for exus incorporated to assign médium.


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Bigger head: Person of high hierarchy in the temple.

Head of Legion: Exus baptized and that they control most behind.

Calunga Grande: Sea; ocean.

Small Calunga: Cemetary.

Capangueiro: Used term in the friend direction.

Caricó: Temple, Place of fetichism.

Loaded: Person who are with harm vibrations spirituals, what she is demonstrated by malaise, fear without cause, etc.

Caruruto: Cigar.

House of the Souls: Small cômodo with candles, crosses. Some temples place the image of Obaluaiê.

Clean house: Free temple of bad influences and demands.

Catimbozeiro: Term for head of catimbó, in the direction of terrible wizard.

Horse: Person who serves of support for orixás or entities. He is médium.

Wax of the Three Kingdoms: 1: Carnaúba; 2: Bee; 3: Paraffin. They are used for works of umbanda. 1: Vegetal kingdom; 2: Animal kingdom; 3 Mineral Kingdom.

Head of Head: Entity guides protector of médium. Head of Phalanx: entity spiritual very evolved. Already free of reincarnation. That it serves as guides to a set of advanced and also vibrant espíritos in one same chain spiritual.

Head of Place of fetichism: The same that leading spiritual.

Head of Legion: Entity of great evolution spiritual, that “they go down” in the places of fetichism representing orixás, inside of its vibratory lines or chains.

Shock of Return: Action to come back the bad vibrations of a witchcraft. Reaching who it made it or it ordered.

Coité: Fruit of the coitezeiro - dry or party with the way spotted on the inside and for is (cuia). Some use coconut, others cabaça.

Compadre: Assignment for Exu.

Consultation: Ceremony of the customers to decide its problems.

Cazuá: Place of fetichism, Temple, Place.


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To give Firmness to the Place of fetichism: To scratch out point in the portière, under the altar, to smoke, to sing points, etc. Are made before a session, to move away or to hinder the entrance of bad influences spirituals.

To give Ticket: Act of orixá or guides to leave médium so that another entity in it if incorporates.

To give passes: Even of the entity, through médium incorporated, to emit vibrations that annul the bad influences suffered for the customers, through witchcraft, eye fat person, it envies, etc. And that they open the ways.

Demand: Misunderstanding, fights between orixás or entities, places of fetichism, people of a place of fetichism.

Discharge: Action to move away from the body of somebody or an environment, negative or maleficent vibrations by means of banns, passes, smoking, burns or powder.

To unload: To exempt somebody of maleficent or negative vibrations.

To go down: Act of orixá or entity to incorporate.

To deixar a carne: Act of the spirit of the person to leave the body - to die.

Development: Learning of the initiates for improvement of its mediúnica capacity; with the purpose of incorporation of entities. Not to fall in the soil, to control settle it, etc.

To forward: To place, to collapse in place determined for orixás or entities - guides, the offering remaining portions.

To forward Exu: To send exu by means of offerings (of drinks, foods, cânticos and animal sacrifice), to hinder to disturb the ceremony.

Forwarding: Done offering exu with the purpose to send it as messenger to orixás and to obtain its good will, so that to be made ceremony, is not disturbed. It offers done for places of fetichism of Quimbanda with the purpose to ask for the evil for somebody, generally placed in crossroads. Offering exu with purpose of
to undo works maleficent. Rank in the weeds, the rivers, etc. Of changed votivas offerings in the temple for other news.


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Incarnation: Act to come a spirit to the terrestrial life, taking a body, or to come back in a new body and to continue its evolution spiritual.

I lean: Spirit of people deceased. That together to a living person, conscientiously or not, harming it with its negative vibrations.

Encruza: Ritual carried through for the leading spiritual before the beginning of the sessions and that it consists of tracing crosses with pemba in the forehead, never in the chest.

Encruza: Place where they inhabit exus; it is the crossing of the ways, railway ways, streets, etc.

Engira: The same that it turns - work - session.

Entities: Beings spirituals in umbanda.

Shoring: People whom atabaques of espíritos supports obsessores without being wronged.

Spirit of Light: Spirit very developed, is superior, is pure.

Spirit without Light: Inferior spirit, little evolved, become attached still to the substance.

Espíritos Obsessores: Espíritos without no development spiritual, that if they possess of the people, making to feel them sick people, harming them in all the directions.


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Phalanx: The same that legion, set of beings spirituals that work inside of one same chain (line). Subdivision of the lines of umbanda, each one with its functions definite and directed by a “head” - superior spirit.

To close the Funny one: To lock up a session or a ceremony where it has had vibratory chain formation.

To close the Tronqueira: To close the place of fetichism to the bad vibrations of quiumbas, by means of smoking and aspersion of aguardente in the four cantos of the place where the cult will be become fullfilled.

Witchcraft: Irradiation of negative, maleficent forces against somebody, forwarding, object that contains maleficent vibrations to reach to who to touch.

Son of Faith: Assignment of médium beginning or not.

To firm: To concentrate itself for the incorporation.

To firm Portière: To scratch out the entrance of the temple, a special point to protect it of bad influences or to make smoking in the entrance, to firm = to give security.

To firm Angel of Guarda: To fortify by means of rituals special and votivas offerings of food and orixá protector of médium.

To firm Point: Collectively to sing the point (cântico) determined by the entity that goes to direct the works to obtain a concentration of the current spiritual.

Firmness: The same that security, set of objects with mística force (axé); that embedded in the soil they protect a place of fetichism and they constitute its base spiritual.

Fluid: Positive or negative emanations, of the cosmic forces that can be manejadas by agent spirituals for the good or the evil.

Force Spiritual: To be able and knowledge that one médium has when in settles and when the entities that protects it have. Great power, is strong and important in the world astral.

Beddings: Laws of umbanda, its beliefs.

Fundanga: Powder.


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It turns: Religious session, with cânticos and dances to cultuar the entities spirituals.

It turns of Caboclo: Religious session, the same that it turns; only that come back only e exclusively toward the caboclo line.

Guide: Glue special ritualístico for each entity. Entity spiritual, superior spirit. Some are the protective guide of the temple, others of médium. Generally the guide of the place of fetichism incorporates in the leading spiritual of the temple.

Guide of Head: Orixá or main entity of médium, its protector.

Guide of front: The same that head guide.


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Man of the Crossroads: Exu.

Man of Street: Exu.


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Incorporation: It settles, mediúnica possession.

To incorporate: To enter in settles “to receive” the entity.


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Legion: Exercise of beings spirituals, the same that phalanx. Set of beings spirituals of great evolution, set of elementary espíritos (exus) in evolution.

Law of the Umbanda: The belief of umbanda and its rituals.

Line: Band of vibration, inside of the vibratory chain spiritual. One orixá also called protective and that she is head of the beings that vibrate and act in this band. Set of phalanxes and that a vibratory band is subdivided. Set of representations (corporal, it dances, colors, symbols) and rituals (foods, drinks, day of the week), etc.;
of each orixá or entity. Set of ritual ceremonies of determined type. Former line of umbanda, white line, etc.

White line: Ritual aiming at solely the good.

Crossed line: Ritual with influence of two or more origins.

Line of the Souls: Vibratory chain that congregates the evolved espíritos of old African slaves.

Line of Cure: Ritual that if occupies more with the physical cure and spiritual of the adept, of what with the cult to the deities.

Line of the East: It congregates espíritos that had lived in peoples of the east.


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Macaia: Sacred leves. Place of the bushes where if they congregate the places of fetichism.

Macumba: Old used musical instrument long ago in the places of fetichism afro-Brazilians. Name that the laypeople use to denigrate umbanda. Name that the laypeople use to assign “forwarding” of street (pejorativo).

Godmother: The same that leading spiritual, Mother of Saint, Babá priestess. Term used in the Umbanda to assign to the Entity Espiritual and/or Médium that was chosen by a Son of Faith to baptize it.

Mandinga: Witchcraft, encantamento, plague also supplicated in high voice.

Manifestation: Incorporation, settles mediúnico.

To reveal: Act of the being spiritual to become incorporated themselves in somebody, to take account of the body of somebody.

Marafo: Aguardente, very used term for exus.

Substance: Body, Material party of the man, the most moved away from the pureness spiritual.

Médium: Person who has the Special College to serve of intermediary between the physical world and spiritual. Term of the espiritismo, adopted for umbanda.

White table: Given denomination the sessions of espiritismo Kardecistas.

Mironga: Secret, mystery.


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Crossed Orixá: Pertaining entity to the two lines.

Orixá de Cabeça: Main Orixá of médium.

Orixá de Frente: The same that orixá of head.


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Godfather: leading spiritual, head of place of fetichism. Father of Saint. Babalorixá. Term used in the Umbanda to assign to the Entity Espiritual and/or Médium that was chosen by a Son of Faith to baptize it.

Parati: Aguardente (Exu, Zé Pilintra).

Patuá: Amulet that if leads hung to the neck or nailed in the clothes. Old were cloth or leather sachets, with mouth moored with metallic lace, next to a glass account of the color of the protective deity. Currently they are of square shaped or rectangular form, in natural or synthetic leather, but ritual colors, I contend Figas de Guiné, Winkle, Star of Salomão, etc; or pieces of grass the times conjuncts. Pará to =erradicar illnesses, antidote, YOU = to propitiate, WA = to live, to exist (to live, without illnesses).

Leg of Pants: Meaning old man in the language of exu and black people.

Pito: Cachimbo (black color-old).

Hand: Small punhal used in magias and diverse rituals.

Sung point: Letter and melody of sacred, different cântico for each entity. One is prece evocativa sung that has for purpose to attract the entities spirituals, homaging them. When they arrive and despediz them when they must leave. Thus the sung points can be only of louvor or with ritual purposes during determined ceremonies.

Point of Opening: Cântico of opening of a session.

Point of invocation: Cântico that invokes the entities for capsizes the temples.

Point of Smoking: Sung while the smoking of the environment and the gifts is made.

Striped point: Drawing formed for a set of cabalísticos signals, that scratched out with pemba helps to call the entity to the world land. When scratched out for médium incorporated it identifies the entity.

Portière: Entrance of the temple.

People of the Encruza: Exus.

People of Street: Exus.

Rule: Determination. Made lapsing to be fulfilled by the fidiciary offices.

To pull the Point: To initiate a cântico. Generally ogã is made by one.


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Quartinha: Adobe canister. With handles he is for feminine, without borders orixá masculine.

To break the Forces: To neutralize the power of any witchcraft, either for the good or the evil.

Quimbanda: Ritual line of umbanda that it practises the black magic. This line thus is called by the umbandistas the “White Line” therefore the practitioners if they only say umbandistas. The Quimbanda, influenced more directly for the blacks Bantus, Angolas, Cambindas, Benguelas, Congos, Moçambiques, etc. Cultua same orixás and entities that umbanda “white” but works mainly with exus that deixarred a carne espíritos are considered. Having between them exus in evolution and quiumbas, by means of order, carries through or disarranges witchcrafts. Aiming at to favor or to harm definitive people, generally the places of fetichism of quimbanda called macumba for the laypeople have the same characteristics of the ones of the line of umbanda. It has congas with images of saints representative catholics of orixás, images of caboclos and old black color having exus (or exu head of the place of fetichism) altar to the part, inside of the hall. The funny ones of exu are frequent in the line of umbanda are rare. Carried through from the half night of 6a. Fair. Funny Exus and doves dances, smoke cigars or cigarrilhas, drinks marafo, says gentilities or palavrões to the assistants and gives consultations, on personal health or problems. The curtain of conga is closed. Quimbanda cultua much on Omolu, orixá the land and to the death. In the cemetary a part of the initiation of many quimbandeiros is made, having the initiate, to lie down to some hours on a tomb between candles and cantigas of the controller and initiates of the place of fetichism, having to fulfill before and later diverse obligations, the clothes in general are the same ones of the line of umbanda, having however much use of the red and black color, colors of Exu and Omolu. They are many used ones in work with powder, after and magical grass, roosters and black hens. The forwardings are placed in crossroads in cross (male), or T (female) with red candles, flowers and ribbons in earthenware bowls. Not being negative all the street forwardings. It has old caboclos and black people who incorporate in quimbanda, giving funny consultations in separate of the Exus.

Quiumbas: Espíritos very behind. They are obsessores are possessed of the human beings or “they are leaned” in them, giving obsedantes ideas to them of illness, males suicides, etc. Are still mistificadores, becoming to pass for higher espíritos. Calls also “tails of encruza”, are in the seventh and last plan of the watched and controlled hierarchy spiritual being for exus.


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Skirt tail: Woman in the language of the old black color and exus. To receive: To give to information the entity spiritual, to enter in settles.

To receive Irradiation from the Guide: To enter in way settles or to communicate itself in some way with a superior entity.

To scratch out Point: To make drawings of cabalísticos signals that represent definitive entities spirituals and that they possess to be able of calling of the same ones or they serve to it of identification.


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Session of Umbanda: Ceremony, rituals generally with the purpose of physical cure and spiritual. By means of guides, after it dances and touchs, with the use of the sung point and striped fabric, powder, aguardente, smokings. Also session of development, learning and perfectioning of médiuns, festive, public sessions, with touch of
atabaque and dances.


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To take Pass: To receive from the Hands of médiuns in settles vibrations of the entity, which remove of the body of the person males provoked by negative vibrations, proceeding from bad looked at, I lean, punishment of the entities, etc.

Tuia: Powder.