Jose H. Leal wrote:
> Yes, in 1979 Ed Petuch named a group of shallow water gastropods from the
> Abrolhos Reef Complex off southern Bahia State in Brazil. Among them were
> Dermomurex oxum, Muricopsis oxossi, Cyphoma macumba, Latirus ogum,
> Murexiella iemanjae, and Conus iansa, all (thoughtfully, in my opinion)
> named after originally West-African deities that have been incorporated
> into the Brazilian culture (as they were in many Latin American countries),
> particularly in the eastern-northeastern part of my old country.
Hello!
Yes quite close to the Cuban deities, which also were brought over from
Africa;
oxossi = ochosi
oxum = oshun
ogum = ogun
iemanjae = yemaya
iansa = ??
missing is chango, whose equivalent, I do not know in Portugese. The
pronounciations are about the same though.
Petuch is amazing, sometimes, knows quite a bit.
Later,
Emilio
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