1.A religion of West African origin practiced chiefly in Haiti and other Caribbean countries, based on animism, magic, and elements of Roman Catholic ritual, and characterized by belief in a supreme God and a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who comm...
1.A religion of West African origin practiced chiefly in Haiti and other Caribbean countries, based on animism, magic, and elements of Roman Catholic ritual, and characterized by belief in a supreme God and a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who comm...
natural element. The voodoo pantheon consists of many Loas, which are generally associated with a Catholic saint. Despite the existence of these Loas, voodoo is essentially monotheist; in their conception, the Loas are neither more or less than the intermediaries between God and the human ones....
The traditional belief structure of the Yoruba envisioned a chief god named Olorun, who remains aloof and unknowable to humankind, but who permitted a lesser deity, Obatala, to create the earth and all its life forms. There are hundreds of minor spirits whose influence humans may invoke, such...
The term voodoo is thought to be derived from the word for 'spirit' in theFonlanguage ofDahomey, now part of Nigeria. The voodoo religion involves belief in a supreme god (bon dieu) and a host of spirits calledloa. Most voodoo practices involve theloa, which are often identified with Cat...
According to the Voodoo tradition — also known as Vodou — there is one supreme God, who is known by different names in different parts of the world. In Haiti, for example, he is called Bondye, which comes from the French phrase bon Dieu, meaning "good God." Regardless of which name...
The legacy of Brother Voodoo begins in the 17th century when a former slave named Laurent gains the power of the Loa. Empowered by the Voodoo god Legba with assistance from the earth goddess Gaea, Laurent uses a spell to bind the spirit of his dead brother Alexandre to his own soul, tra...
6. “Voodoo is not superstition. It is a philosophy, a conception of God.”— Francois Duvalier 7. “I am a scholar and, as such, I have studied the concept of voodoo.”— Francois Duvalier 8. “My favorite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.”— Erin O’Connor ...
On nationalLive TV,CNNanalystAngela Ryesaw something raising out of the floor, or suddenly felt that some demons or theDEVILhimself was drawing her down into a “Sunken Place.” Or, she began to “stink into the floor.” Whatever the case may have been.Ms. Ryeurgently needed and received...
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