COSMOGOMY

The elements of nature, their laws and processes, are the fundamental pieces that made the creation of Xirê possible.

 

In keeping with its cosmogonic principles, the Guaracy Temple established NATURE as its sacred book. Through observation and interaction with nature, life is interpreted, and "encounters" with God occur through the paths of perception.

 

When it was founded in 1973, the Guaracy Temple understood the creation of the world according to Catholic teachings. At that time, the word of God was heard according to the vision of fervent priests. Later, with the understanding of the Xirê dos Orixás (ritual of the Orishas), the Guaracy community was encouraged to see and perceive the word of God manifested through the various phenomena of nature.

 

The fluidity of a river and its transformations, the dynamics of forests, the migration of birds, the reproduction of animals, the seasons and their effects — all of this teaches us about the cycles of creation and maintenance, which are intelligently and patiently reconstructed in another dimension.

 

These are the foundations of the Guaracy Temple doctrine. When we combine the wisdom of nature with the light of our own knowledge, we recreate the world.

 

The Guaracy Temple does not align with the idea that humans should reign over birds, fish, and animals. Human arrogance has contributed little to the stability of the universe or to the well-being of humanity itself. Guaracyana Philosophy advocates mutual respect among all forms of life that inhabit our planet.

 

The Xirê of the Guaracy Temple recognizes in the four elements (Fire – Earth – Water – Air) and in the combinations of their sixteen variants (Elegbará, Ogum, Oxumarê, Xangô, Obaluaiê, Oxóssi, Ossãe, Obá, Nanã, Oxum, Iemanjá, Ewá, Iansã, Tempo, Ifá, Oxalá) the basic forces and energies responsible for the composition of life and its dynamics in the world of forms.

 

In the Guarayana worldview, both the elements and their sixteen qualities are forces and energies of nature that, through the effect of anthropomorphism, have become known as Orishas.