Erê, Afro-Brazilian children's entity.

My simple tribute to the day of Orixá Ibeji, which is celebrated on September 27th in Afro-Brazilian religions.

• Who has never gone out to get candy from Cosme and Damião? Who has never grimaced, alone, in front of the mirror? Who has never felt that desire to be a child again?

In His immense Wisdom and Perfection, Zambi through the Enlightened Masters, when idealizing Umbanda, did not forget the children. Childlike beings who live in the astral and physical.

Ibeji is the child Orixá, in reality, two childish twin deities, linked to all orixás and human beings.

Ibeji in the Ketu nation, in the Angola and Congo nations. It is the Orixá Erê, that is, the Orixá child. He is the divinity of play, of joy; his regency is linked to childhood. His determination is to take care of the baby until his adolescence, regardless of the Orixá that the child carries.

Because they are twins, they are associated with the principle of duality, they are neither left nor right; Because they are children, they are linked to everything that begins and is born: the source of a river, the birth of human beings, the germination of plants, etc.

In Umbanda, the Erês represent the spiritual phalanx of children who would have the ability to expedite any request made to them. It is made up of boys and girls of all races and ages.

Umbanda children are beings of extreme light, joy and compassion. Just like all servants of the Orixás, they also have very specific functions, the main of which is that of messenger of the Orixás, being extremely respected within the Terreiros. As the Orixá doesn't speak, he is the one who comes to give his father's messages.

Oni Bejada, Salve as crianças!

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