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The spelling Voodoo, once common, is now generally avoided by practitioners and scholars when referring to the Haitian religion. [62] This is both to avoid confusion with Louisiana Voodoo, a related but distinct tradition, [63] and to distinguish it from the negative connotations that the term Voodoo has in Western popular culture. [64]
One does not have to wait on God but can command the divine to act at will through Hoodoo rituals. This makes African American Christianity in Hoodoo different from other forms of Christianity. By seeing God this way, Hoodoo practices are preserved in and outside the Black church. Also, ghosts and haunts can be controlled in Hoodoo because they ...
While Vodouists often equate Bondye with the Christian God, [11] Vodou does not incorporate belief in a powerful antagonist that opposes the supreme being akin to the Christian notion of Satan. [12] Bondye occupies the role played by the Christian God in Christianity and by the supreme deity in various African traditional religions. [13]
Haitian mythology consists of many folklore stories from different time periods, involving sacred dance and deities, all the way to Vodou.Haitian Vodou is a syncretic mixture of Roman Catholic rituals developed during the French colonial period, based on traditional African beliefs, with roots in Dahomey, Kongo and Yoruba traditions, and folkloric influence from the indigenous Taino peoples of ...
West African Vodún, a religion practiced by Gbe-speaking ethnic groups; African diaspora religions, a list of related religions sometimes called Vodou/Voodoo . Candomblé Jejé, also known as Brazilian Vodum, one of the major branches (nations) of Candomblé
Damballa is said to be the sky father and the primordial creator of all life, or the first thing created by the Bondye.In those Vodou societies that view Damballa as the primordial creator, he created the cosmos by using his 7000 coils to form the stars and the planets in the heavens and to shape the hills and valleys on Earth.
They have also been incorporated into some revivalist forms of Louisiana Voodoo. [a] Many of the lwa derive their identities in part from deities venerated in the traditional religions of West Africa, especially those of the Fon and Yoruba. In Haitian Vodou, the lwa serve as intermediaries between humanity and Bondye, a transcendent creator ...
Pages in category "Voodoo gods" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adya Houn'tò ...