Oralitura e a figura mitológica de Iyá Mi Oxorongá em “Caroço de dendê”, de Mãe Beata de Yemonjá

Caroco de Dende: a sabedoria dos terreiros: como Ialorixas e Babalorixas passam conhecimento a seus filhos (2008), whose first edition dates from 1997, of Mae Beata de Yemonja (1931-2017), is composed of 43 tales that merge the Ithans (legends of the Orixas) and other stories of Terreiro, of these we choose three: tres “O cachimbo de Tia Cilu”; “Iya Mi, a mae Ancestral” and “Conto dedicado a minha mae, Do Carmo”, that rescue the ancestry of the sorcerers ' mothers, the Iya Mi Oxorongas, mythic-religious figures of the afro culture. The theoretical framework is composed of the concept of Leda Martins (1997; 2003; 2007) "Oralitura" as well as the studies by Heloisa Toller Gomes (2004; 2007), Conceicao Evaristo (2011) and Ana Rita Santiago (2012) to the concept of afrofeminine literature, a literature crossed by the condition of woman and black and all that implies. The Iya-mis Oxorongas are the representation and maintenance of african matriarchal and afrodiaspathic culture, unique ancestors in the religions of African matrix.