But Voodoo has a most special place for Erzulie, the loa of beauty, the loa who is so uniquely human since she is the differentiating force between human and all other creation. She is the ability to conceptualize, the ability to dream, the artistic ability to create. She is the loa of...
The voodoo conceptualization of the world involves the belief in continuity between life and death. In voodoo, death is perceived as a regeneration of all society if the various death rituals and the burial services are well executed. Also, considerable importance is attributed to dead persons and...
In Baron Voodoo you play as a “Loa”, a voodoo god, who has the chance to become the new god of death by capturing the most souls, which are represented by 48 gorgeous custom Soul Dice. Every game begins differently as the Soul Dice are rolled and placed onto a 7x7 grid, creating ...
In Voodoo, the demarcation between life and death is more fluid; helping Voodoo followers create order out of disorder. From The Daily Beast In the background, outside, is Papa Legba, who is a Loa, the word for a Voodoo deity. From The Daily Beast There are whispers of a history of...
With the power of the mystical Loa in his control, Doctor Voodoo explores the dark corners of the universe, searching for knowledge and combatting evil at every turn.
36-46. At the top and bottom of the note were the words RETURNED TO SENDER the bottom line with this statement in it was written upside down, and in red ink. Further more, the note also implicated that the person who received it was involved in the death of a man which had been ...
You've surely heard the terrifying folklore surrounding the practice of voodoo, but admit it – you totally want to try it anyway. Maybe you want to make a ...
voodoo priest Also known as a “houngan,”“papa” or “papaloa,” in the vodoun religion, this is a man who summons vodoun gods in order to divine the future or heal. Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited...
For this reason, Voodoo practitioners must rely on hundreds or thousands of other spirits to communicate with God. These spirits are known as loa or lwa in Haiti; anthropologists writing about African Voodoo often refer to them as spirits or gods [source: Visit Haiti]. The spirits exist in ...
world not as separate from himself but as an act of self expression. Dancing. As he revealed more of his inherent power, or ‘ashe’ as it’s known, he took the form of various spirits known as Loa. Loa were spirits of the elements and of various forces of life, likedeathor birth....