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Olga de Alaketu : ウィキペディア英語版 | Olga de Alaketu
Olga de Alaketu or Mother Olga- (c.1925 – September 29, 2005) was a prominent Candomblé high priestess, who was influential in promoting Candomblé and distancing it from Catholicism. == Early Life and Career == Olga Alaketu is the epitome of a slave woman who broke boundaries and established herself as a role model and example to African Americans around the world, but in particular, Brazil. Born in the Ketu Nation of West Africa in 1925, she was descended from a long line of priestesses and queens. She was brought by the Portuguese to Bahia, Brazil, and forced into a life of slavery. In order to break the mold of her slave identity, she used the customs and traditions of her homeland to establish herself in Afro-Brazilian society. With the help of others she integrated both European and African culture together in order to strengthen the Afro-Brazilian culture and religious tradition of Candomblé. She played a central role in many spiritual initiatives within her community, such as giving sermons on inequality and injustice. Furthermore she served as an instrumental part of the local university’s Psychiatry department to help the local people discuss their problems, and those who suffered with mental illness. A fifth generation descendant of the royal house of Aro in modern Benin (through a Ketu child princess kidnapped and sold as slave in Bahia between ca. 1636 and the end of the 18th century), Alaketu served as high priestess of the Ile Maroia Laji temple in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, one of the oldest Candomblé temples in Brazil. Her temple attracted many prominent people including the writer Jorge Amado, and the French anthropologist Pierre Verger. When the Ile Maroia Laji was declared a national heritage site, Cultural Minister Gilberto Gil said of Alaketu: "In the last forty years, we can consider Mother Olga as the greatest proponent of the religion of the Orishas in all Brazil."
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