Oxumaré

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In Candomblé mythology, an Afro-American religion widely practiced in Brazil, Òsùmàrè is the rainbow-serpent in nagô language, and it is the mobility, the activity, one of its functions is to control the forces that direct the movement. He is the lord of all elongated things. The umbilical cord that is under its control, is buried, generally with the placenta, under a palm tree that becomes property of the newborn baby, whose health will depend on the good conservation of this tree.

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