Barquinha

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The Barquinha is next União do Vegetal and Santo Daime one of the three ayahuasca -Religionen that since the 1920s in the city of Rio Branco in the Brazilian state of Acre have emerged. In the rituals of these religions, the entheogenic sacrament Ayahuasca is taken within a worship service.

Origin of the Barquinha

The Barquinha is a split from the Santo Daime cult group around Irineu Serra , called Alto Santo , which was founded in 1945 by a former follower of Serra, Daniel Pereira de Mattos . Mattos, a former sailor who temporarily fell into alcoholism, had visionary dreams and paranormal perceptions as a child. In the Daime rituals held by Irineu Serra, de Mattos finally learns the reasons for his alcohol addiction and the background to his visions about the “Blue Book”. He then begins to carry out his mission and receives in dreams and daime visions, called miraçoes in the tradition of the daimistas , the hymns and psalms of livro azul , the holy book of the Barquinha religions.

literature

  • Carsten Balzer: Paths to Salvation: The Barquinha. An ethnological study on transformation and healing in the Ayahuasca rituals of a Brazilian religion. Institute for Brazilian Studies , Mettingen 2003 (= Aspects of Brazilian Studies , Vol. 26).

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