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When cobwebs come together they can bind a lion, says the African proverb. In the blossoming of the Rio de Janeiro spring, more than 500 sacred objects of the Afro-Brazilian religions were released, under the ceremonial reverence of the clapping and chanting of Babalorixás and Ialorixás of Candomblé and Umbanda. The collection with sacred objects was seized between 1891 and 1946, a period in which Candomblé and Umbanda were officially criminalized in Brazil. Exu hit a bird yesterday with a stone he threw today. Laroye!