The sacred necklaces of memory: candomble’s secret thread from African yoruba matrix

This paper aims to investigate the conception of the sacred symbol, based on the logic of meaning of ilequé, also known as beads or glass beads, sacred artifacts that symbolically point to religious identity, power, defense. and the hierarchy of subjects of the religious tradition of Candombles of African Yoruba matrix. Sacred necklaces carry multiple meanings, many voices echo from their structures, because they participate in a system in which each object has function, purpose and representation in relation to the sacred, because they are products of rituals. Thus, the symbolic-religious dimension of these necklaces characterizes and conditions the relationship between the subjects and its social group and vice versa, marking, then, the interfaces between this religion originating in Africa, memory, tradition, magic and identity.