orixa
Britishnoun
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In some scenes, she wears a straw dress resembling the head-to-toe covering used by Obaluaê, the orixá or deity of earth and health.
From Seattle Times
Largely due to that health scare, Viana said, the orixa Obaluaê asked him to postpone a banquet in his honor, to Sept. 17.
From Seattle Times
One group of women with a Candomblé orixa’s name emblazoned on their skirts whirled about with a cross on their backs.
From Washington Times
On a shelf behind her stood figurines of saints and Latin American Orixa deities.
From BBC
Brown's lucky color is blue, the color of the Afro-Brazilian deity, or Orixa, that he worships as part of his religion, Candomble.
From Reuters
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