New Year Tradition In Brazil

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Brazilian celebrations are a clear reflection of its history, culture and the origins of its people from Portugal, Africa and South America. New Year celebrations enrooted from the various New Year Traditions in Brazil also portray the same.

New Year's Eve is marked by festive Fiesta de Iemanjá held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Crowds head to the beaches to offer flowers and gifts to Iemanjá, the Goddess of the Water in the Brazilian Umbanda religion. The Copacabana beach is flocked with millions of people who come to visualize the colorful candles floating on sea.


Fishermen along the coast also celebrate Iemanjá on New Year's Day, with great devotion and fervor. Brazilian fishermen believe this celebration can affect the following year's catch. Among the various New Year traditions in Brazil consuming lentils and rice on the first day of the New Year is a well practiced one. In Brazil the lentil is believed to bring in good wealth and fortune in the ensuing days of the New Year.
On New Year's Eve priestesses of the local macumba voodoo cult dress in blue skirts and white blouses to worship and offer prayers to the goddess of water, Yemanja. A l boat filled with flowers, candles and jewellery is floated to the sea from Brazil's famous Ipenama beach in Rio de Janeiro as a sacrifice to the Water Goddess. Other New Year traditions in Brazil include lighting fireworks, making loud noise and cheer on New Years Eve midnight, kissing the beloved, making New Year promises etc. All these activities are performed to purify the soul, drive off the evil spirit and welcome the New Year in a refreshed manner. Share more New Year traditions in Brazil from 123 new year.

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