"ESPÍRITOS INDÍGENAS, MENSAGEIROS DOS ORIXÁS": CRUZAMENTOS, PASSAGENS E CAMINHOS NA RELIGIÃO AFRO-BRASILEIRA.

In this article, I discuss the crossings and passages that occur in the Afro-Brazilian religion starting from the relation between indigenous spirits and Orishas. The cosmos/sociopolitical and human/extra-human interpenetration, connects Amerindian and Afro-Brazilian practices: the intermediary for the Orisha who works in the quarry will be a caboclo(a) of the Xangô line. The Caboclo Sete Encruzilhadas - that opened the religion so that the spirits of pretos-velhos, of indigenous and other peoples could arrive - is intensively linked to ritual practices of Umbanda, Quimbanda and Batuque of Rio Grande do Sul, because this caboclo crosses and can act on the terreira, in another passage of his, as Exu of the Sete Encruzilhadas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]