The festival of Iemanjá in Salvador, Brazil is a celebration of the Afro-Brazilian candomblé religion, where thousands of revelers pay their respects to the sea goddess.
It’s not quite 4:30 in the morning on Friday, February 2, but the Rio Vermelho neighborhood of Salvador, the capital city of Brazil’s Bahia state, is already buzzing. Revelers, dressed mostly in white, stream along the street parallel to the beach, some still drunk from the night before, others struggling to wake up.
A boat bearing floral tributes to sea-goddess Iemanjá makes its way out from the harbor in downtown Salvador.Already, a long line of the flower-bearing faithful has formed in front of the Casa de Iemanjá, a blue-and-white-painted temple fronted by a life-size sculpture of the mermaidlike deity, done up in seashells and shards of mirror.
A narrow alley leads to Suzana de Almeida Sapueria’s restaurant, where various relatives often mingle among the guests.Sapueria begins her moqueca with the freshest catch; houses in her neighborhood reach down to All Saint’s Bay.
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