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Hymn from the
O Cruzeiro hinario by Mestre Irineu:
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75 - The stars
The Stars already arrived
To say their name
I am, I am, I am
I am a son of God
The Stars took me
To see the whole world
For me to know this Truth
To be able to be true
I climbed a hill of thorns
Stepping on sharp points
The Stars told me
In the world, everything can be healed
The Stars told me
Listen much and speak little
To be able to understand
And speak with my caboclos
The caboclos already arrived
With bare arms and bare feet
They bring good remedies
To heal the Christians
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75 – As estrelas
As estrelas já chegaram
Para dizer o nome seu
Sou eu, sou eu, sou eu
Sou eu um filho de Deus
As estrelas me levaram
Para correr o mundo inteiro
Para conhecer esta verdade
Para poder ser verdadeiro
Eu subi serra de espinhos
Pisando em pontas agudas
As estrelas me disseram
No mundo se cura tudo
As estrelas me disseram
Ouve muito e fala pouco
Para poder compreender
E conversar com meus caboclos
Os caboclos já chegaram
De braços nus e pés no chão
Eles trazem remédios bons
Para curar os cristãos
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Santo Daime Hymns
Sacred music and dance form a basic part of the Santo Daime religion. The earliest hymns are
those of the founder, Mestre Irineu. Today, hundreds of Daimistas from Brazil
and other countries have contributed music to this growing genre. The hymns are
said to be "received" from a spiritual source rather than written. During a
ritual, one or several hymnbooks may be sung in their entirety.
Santo Daime hymnbooks, called hinarios in Portuguese, are the life works of their owners, and
chronicle that person's spiritual journey.
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Mestre Irineu, O
Cruzeiro &
A Santa Missa
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Padrinho Sebastião,
O
Justiceiro
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Madrinha Rita, Lua
Branca
Rita Gregório de Melo is the widow of Padrinho Sebastião,
matriarch of the CEFLURIS line, mother of 11 children, and lives in Céu do Mapiá.
She is thought to have been born 25 June 1925 in Rio Grande do Norte.
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Madrinha Júlia, O
Convite
Júlia Gregório da Silva was born in Açu, Rio Grande do Norte,
in 1933. She was the younger sister of Madrinha Rita, and the mother of six
children.
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Madrinha Cristina,
A Mensagem
Cristina Raulino da Silva was born in Rio Branco, Acre, in
1938. She married Manuel Gregório (Padrinho Nel), the brother of
Madrinha Rita.
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Padrinho Alfredo, O
Cruzerinho
Alfredo Gregório de Melo, one of the sons of Padrinho Sebastião
and Madrinha Rita, today heads the CEFLURIS line which Padrinho Sebastião
founded, based in Céu do Mapiá, Amazonas. He was born 07 January 1950 in
the seringal (rubber extraction area) Adélia along the Juruá river in
the state of Amazonas.
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| João Pedro,
O Menino Jesus
João Pedro was a contemporary of Mestre Irineu. All we know is
that his strong, healing hinario only became known to Santo Daime after
his death.
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Maria Damião,
O Mensageiro [pdf]
Maria Marques Vieira was born in Belém do Pará, in 1917. She
was very young when she moved with her family to Rio Branco, Acre, where she
met Raimundo Irineu Serra, in the early 1930s. She was sallow, with white skin
and blond. Maria Damião, as she was known, got married, had seven children
(one was adopted), and lost her husband early. She had many difficulties in
her material life, as in her works with Santo Daime. Maria Damião worked hard
to support her family; and, on 02 April 1949, she died of pneumonia at just 32
years old.
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Antônio Gomes, O Amor Divino [pdf]
Antônio Gomes da Silva was born in Ceará, 30 April 1885. He
married Maria de Nazaré in Ceará, and had five children. He lived in Belém do
Pará for a while, and then moved to Rio Branco, Acre, in 1921. He worked as a
seringueiro, or rubber tapper, and later as a farmer. He lost his first
wife, married again, and had another four children. He met Master Raimundo
Irineu Serra in 1938, and he received benefits for his unstable health.
Antônio Gomes then became a member of the Santo Daime doctrine, as did his
whole family. His son Leôncio became the new leader of Alto Santo, after Mestre Irineu's death, in 1971. His grandaughter, Peregrina Gomes, was the
third wife of Mestre Irineu. Antônio Gomes da Silva died 14 August 1946.
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Germano Guilherme,
Vós Sois Baliza
[pdf]
Germano Guilherme dos Santos was born in Piauí at the beginning
of the 20th century. He moved with his family to Rio Branco, Acre, where he
lived on the outskirts of the city working as a farmer. Germano was one of the
first disciples of Mestre Irineu, becoming a member of Santo Daime in the
1930s. He was a black man with notably white teeth. Germano had special
feelings for Mestre Irineu, and called him maninho, or "my little
brother". He suffered a disease on his leg that bothered him a lot. Because of
this, he couldn't eat some kinds of food. But when he was at maninho's
house, Germano ate everything he wanted and didn't feel anything. He was
married to Cecília Gomes, the daughter of Antônio Gomes and Maria de Nazaré,
but had no children. His hinário is sung at CICLU -
Alto Santo along
with the O Cruzeiro hinário of Mestre Irineu. Germano Guilherme dos
Santos died in 1964.
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João Pereira, Seis de Janeiro [pdf]
João Pereira was born in Porongaba, Ceará, in the end of the
19th century. Nobody knows the date he moved to Rio Branco, Acre. In the
early 1930s, he joined Mestre Irineu, and became one of his first disciples.
João Pereira was almost bald, and his complexion was swarthy or similar to
that of caboclos, the mixed blood people of the Amazonian region. He
worked as a farmer and wagon driver. He lived near Rio Branco and was married
with Maria Franco (Maria Marques Feitosa), the mother of the second wife of
Mestre Irineu, Raimunda. João Pereira died in 1954.
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| Francisco Fernandes Filho,
O Assessor (Tetéo/Tetéu)
After Mestre Irineu passed on, his last wife's uncle Leôncio
Gomes assumed command of the works, and in turn after Leôncio Gomes' passing,
Francisco Fernandes Filho (Tetéo or Tetéu) took over in 1980; however, he apparently
very soon quarreled with Mestre Irineu's widow, Dona Peregrina Gomes Serra,
and was chased out of Mestre Irineu's house (Alto Santo), according to Edward MacRae. Tetéu then founded a new center, less than a kilometer away and
declared himself to be the real CICLU, creating an ongoing dispute.
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| Maria Brilhante
Maria Brilhante was married with Padrinho Eduardo Salles
Freitas, and they had four children, three of whom survive. Madrinha
Maria Brilhante received a hinario which is officially sung on the festival of
St. Anthony every 13-14 June. |
Hinarios more recently known include:
| Baixinha [text+audio]
Baixinha, meaning tiny in Portuguese, is perhaps the best
known practitioner of UmbanDaime. She is a small woman of scarcely one
and a half meters, who has spent more than forty years in Umbanda,
twenty-one in Candomblé, and eighteen years in Santo Daime. She is
based in Lumiar, a mountain village two hours from Rio de Janeiro.
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O Chaveirinho
Hinario received by prominent cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas
(1957, Jandaia do Sul - PR), commander of the Céu de Maria church in São
Paulo, and consisting of 41 hymns.
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Alex Polari
Nova Anunciação is the hinario of Alex Polari, who
spent years as a political prisoner during the rule of the military junta in
Brazil, enduring torture, brutality, and deprivation, and whose quest for
spiritual initiation eventually led him deep into the heart of the
rainforest, to Mapia, where he became a teacher and leader of the Santo
Daime community.
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| Paulo Roberto [doc][mp3]
Luz na Escuridao (A Light In The Darkness) is
the hinario received by Paulo Roberto (Paulo Roberto Silva e Souza),
padrinho of the Ceu do Mar church in Rio de Janeiro, and who is a
psychologist by training. |
Portions or collections of Hinarios often sung in rituals include:
| Finados
The Finados consists of the hinarios of Antonio Gomes, Maria
Damião, Germano Guilherme, and João Pereira, followers of Mestre Irineu.
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| Oração
Oração means prayer, and is normally sung around 6:30pm,
in church or at home, with or without instruments. The oração of CEFLURIS consists of a
selection of 12 hymns from Padrinho
Sebastião's
O
Justiceiro hinario (or hymnbook), plus one from his son Padrinho Alfredo's
O
Cruzeirinho hinario, and a new one from
Sebastião's
daughter Madrinha Nonata.
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| Cruzeirinho of Mestre Irineu
After an interval of 11 years, Mestre Irineu received the
first of 13 hymns, 12 of which are now known as the Hinos Novos or
more commonly as the Cruzeirinho (or little Cruzeiro), consisting of
hymns 117 through 128 near the end of his seminal hinario, O Cruzeiro.
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Hinário de Concentração [doc] |
The Concentration
Hymnbook consists of opening
prayers, including the
Lord's Prayer,
Hail Mary and the Key of
Harmony, the
Oração
(see
above), the Consecration of the
Sanctuary and Prayer, then some 13
Concentration Hymns which may vary
from one church to another, followed
by the
Cruzeirinho of Mestre Irineu
(see
above), and usually closed with
traditional closing hymns, the
Lord's Prayer and Hail Mary, Hail
Holy Queen and traditional Closing
words.
| Cura I and Cura II [doc]
The Cura is a selection of 32 healing hymns divided
into two parts, taken mainly from the hinarios of Padrinho Sebastião,
Madrinha Rita, and Padrinho Alfredo, but also including a few from Mestre
Irineu, Alex Polari, Vera Froes and
Madrinha Tetê (Teresa Gregório), often used on occasions
when healing is required, in particular physical healing.
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| Hinário de
Despacho [doc] |
The despacho do
Daime is the distribution or
serving of the sacramental tea,
which may be done at several
intervals throughout a work, usually
from its own table or window in
larger churches, and is usually done
in lines separated by gender and in
order of seniority. The
hinos de despacho (hymns), from
the hinário de despacho
(hymnbook), are sung at this special
moment.
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Hymn from the Nova Jerusalém hinario by Padrinho Sebastião:
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26. I am the shine of sun
I am the shine of sun
I am the shine of moon
I give shine to the stars
Because they all follow me
I am the shine of sea
I live in the wind
I shine in the forest
Because it belongs to me
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26. Sou brilho do sol
Sou brilho do sol
Sou brilho da lua
Dou brilho às estrelas
Porque todas me acompanham
Eu sou brilho do mar
Eu vivo no vento
Eu brilho na floresta
Porque ela me pertence
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