Bahia

' Only in the Bahia, land of the Orixs, blessed for all deuses, the baptism of a boy of eyes color of the sky could bring as much surprise and diversion to leitor' ' (BARBOSA. Rogrio Andrade, 1995). This is the first paragraph of the presentation of the workmanship the Compadre de Ogum de Loved Jorge, which with few words leaves clearly what the reader will find in covering of its pages: one to lard of cultures that leave concrete signals of the lived experiences and that they had been shaped in our memory. The Compadre de Ogum, initially, was a chapter of the romance the shepherds of the night, written in the year of 1964. This chapter, with the proper magic of the amadiana writing, is not pleased in being part, all wants to be and acquires proper life, jumping of the pages of the shepherds of the night for the hands of the readers as plus one of the important workmanships of the amadiana gallery. The Compadre de Ogum is launched in the year of 1995, and in alegrico tone 1 has as proposal to serve of reference for the bahian and Brazilian society in valuation of ' ' culture of the people 2 ' ' in the espiritualidade of the population afro-descendant inside of a pluricultural society. In each line of its workmanship, Loved Jorge traces wires that leave visible marks of its paper as writer having as source of its fiction the reality, ' ' this reality that it did not learn in books, but lived intensamente' ' (SAINTS, 1997, p.73). He is through this historiografia ' ' consciente' ' that Loved it considers (reverse speed) the discovery and valuation of ours ' ' skill of ser' ' , our identity: (…) Bluish Eyes any boy can have, exactly being the black father, therefore it is impossible to separate and to catalogue all sangues of a child born in the Bahia.