COSMOGONY
The elements of nature, their laws and processes are the foundational pieces that enabled the creation of the Xirê.
In coherence with its cosmogonic principles, Templo Guaracy established NATURE as its sacred book. Based on observation and interaction with nature, readings of life are made, and “encounters” with God occur through the pathways of perception.
When it was founded in 1973, Templo Guaracy envisioned the creation of the world based on Catholic teachings. At that time, the word of God was heard according to the view of fervent priests. Later, with the understanding of the Xirê of the Orixás, the Guaracyan community was encouraged to see and perceive the word of God manifested through the various phenomena of nature.
The fluidity of a river and its transformations, the dynamics of forests, the migration of birds, the reproduction of animals, the seasons of the year and their effects all teach us about the cycles of creation and maintenance, which are intelligently and patiently reconstructed in
another dimension.
These serve as the foundation of the Templo Guaracy’s doctrine. When we associate the wisdom of nature with the light of our own knowledge, we recreate the world.
Templo Guaracy does not align with the idea that man should reign over birds, fish, and animals.Human arrogance has not contributed much to the stability of the universe or to humanity’s own well-being.The Guaracyan Philosophy advocates mutual respect among all forms of life that inhabit our planet.
The Xirê of Templo Guaracy recognizes in the four elements (Fire – Earth – Water – Air) and in the combinations of their sixteen variants (Elegbara, Ogum, Oxumarê, Xangô, Obaluaiê, Oxóssi, Ossãe, Obá, Nanã, Oxum, Iemanjá, Ewá, Iansã, Tempo, Ifá, Oxalá) the basic forces and energies responsible for the composition of life and its dynamics in the world of forms.
In the Guaracyan worldview, both the elements and their sixteen qualities are forces and energies ofnature which, through the effect of anthropomorphism, became known as Orixás.
