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Mãe Gilda de Ogum

1935–2000

Brazil

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Iyalorixá Gildásia dos Santos e Santos, known as Mãe Gilda de Ogum, was a Brazilian practitioner of Candomblé. In 1988, she founded the Ilê Axé Abassá de Ogum, a Candomblé Terreiro (or house of worship) in Lagoa do Abaeté in the Itapuã neighborhood of Salvador. She herself was initiated into Candomblé in 1976 at the Terreiro de Oya.

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