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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.

Largely due to that health scare, Viana said, the orixa Obaluaê asked him to postpone a banquet in his honor, to Sept. 17.

One group of women with a Candomblé orixa’s name emblazoned on their skirts whirled about with a cross on their backs.

On a shelf behind her stood figurines of saints and Latin American Orixa deities.

Brown's lucky color is blue, the color of the Afro-Brazilian deity, or Orixa, that he worships as part of his religion, Candomble.