In this article about the Feast of Congada of São Sebastião do Paraíso, MG, the author describe and interpret this feast and the way the dancers transmitted they specifics knowledge, codify and decodify messages attributed to the look that if report to the visible world, but also to the invisible world, whose apprehension and understanding accumulate of stocks codes, modulation and education of the directions of diverse and specific order. This was done based on their cosmological discourse, the association they establish between Catholicism, African memory and ancestry.
agency; Feast of Congada; knowledge; polyssemy