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Friday, 4 November 2016
Voodoo priest
Often described as queen mother is the first daughter of a
matriarchal lineage of a family collective. She holds the right to lead
the ceremonies incumbent to the clan: marriages, baptisms and funerals.
She is considered one of the most important members of community. She will lead the women of a village when her family collective is the ruling one.
Her dominant role has often been confused with or associated to that of a high priestess which she is not.
They take part in the organisation and the running of markets and are also responsible for their upkeep, which is vitally important because marketplaces are the focal points for gatherings and social centres in their communities.
In the past when the men of the villages would go to war, the Queen Mothers would lead prayer ceremonies in which all the women attended every morning to ensure the safe return of their menfolk.
The High priestess is, on the other hand, the woman chosen by the oracle to care for the convent.
Priestesses, like priests, receive a calling from an oracle, which may come at any moment during their lives.
They will then join their clan's convent to pursue spiritual instruction. It is also an oracle that will designate the future high priest and high priestess among the new recruits, establishing an order of succession within the convent.
Only blood relatives were allowed in the family convent; strangers are forbidden. In modern days, however, some of the rules have been changed, enabling non family members to enter what is described as the first circle of worship. Strangers are allowed to worship only the spirits of the standard pantheon.
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She is considered one of the most important members of community. She will lead the women of a village when her family collective is the ruling one.
Her dominant role has often been confused with or associated to that of a high priestess which she is not.
They take part in the organisation and the running of markets and are also responsible for their upkeep, which is vitally important because marketplaces are the focal points for gatherings and social centres in their communities.
In the past when the men of the villages would go to war, the Queen Mothers would lead prayer ceremonies in which all the women attended every morning to ensure the safe return of their menfolk.
The High priestess is, on the other hand, the woman chosen by the oracle to care for the convent.
Priestesses, like priests, receive a calling from an oracle, which may come at any moment during their lives.
They will then join their clan's convent to pursue spiritual instruction. It is also an oracle that will designate the future high priest and high priestess among the new recruits, establishing an order of succession within the convent.
Only blood relatives were allowed in the family convent; strangers are forbidden. In modern days, however, some of the rules have been changed, enabling non family members to enter what is described as the first circle of worship. Strangers are allowed to worship only the spirits of the standard pantheon.
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Love spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/voodoo-lost-love-spells.html
Money spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/money-spells.html
Revenge spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/revenge-spells.html
Curses spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/curses-spells.html
Voodoo Theology
Vodun cosmology centers around the vodun spirits and other elements of divine essence that govern the Earth, a hierarchy that range in power from major deities governing the forces of nature and human society to the spirits of individual streams, trees, and rocks, as well as dozens of ethnic vodun, defenders of a certain clan, tribe, or nation.
The vodun are the center of religious life, similar in many ways to doctrines such as the intercession of saints and angels that made Vodun appear compatible with Christianity, especially Catholicism, and produced syncretic religions such as Haitian Vodou.
Adherents also emphasize ancestor worship and hold that the spirits of the dead live side by side with the world of the living, each family of spirits having its own female priesthood, sometimes hereditary when it's from mother to blood daughter.
Patterns of worship follow various dialects, spirits, practices, songs, and rituals. A divine Creator, called variously Mawu is a female being who in one tradition bore seven children and gave each rule over a realm of nature - animals, earth, and sea - or else these children are inter-ethnic and related to natural phenomena or to historical or mythical individuals.
The Creator embodies a dual cosmogonic principle of which Mawu the moon and Lisa the sun are respectively the female and male aspects, often portrayed as the twin children of the Creator.
In other traditions, Legba is represented as Mawu's masculine counterpart, thus being represented as a phallus or as a man with a prominent phallus.
Dan, who is Mawu's androgynous son, is represented as a rainbow serpent, and was to remain with her and act as a go-between with her other creations. As the mediator between the spirits and the living, Dan maintains balance, order, peace and communication.
All creation is considered divine and therefore contains the power of the divine. This is how medicines such as herbal remedies are understood, and explains the ubiquitous use of mundane objects in religious ritual.
Vodun talismans, called "fetishes", are objects such as statues or dried animal parts that are sold for their healing and spiritually rejuvenating properties.
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Revenge spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/revenge-spells.html
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The vodun are the center of religious life, similar in many ways to doctrines such as the intercession of saints and angels that made Vodun appear compatible with Christianity, especially Catholicism, and produced syncretic religions such as Haitian Vodou.
Adherents also emphasize ancestor worship and hold that the spirits of the dead live side by side with the world of the living, each family of spirits having its own female priesthood, sometimes hereditary when it's from mother to blood daughter.
Patterns of worship follow various dialects, spirits, practices, songs, and rituals. A divine Creator, called variously Mawu is a female being who in one tradition bore seven children and gave each rule over a realm of nature - animals, earth, and sea - or else these children are inter-ethnic and related to natural phenomena or to historical or mythical individuals.
The Creator embodies a dual cosmogonic principle of which Mawu the moon and Lisa the sun are respectively the female and male aspects, often portrayed as the twin children of the Creator.
In other traditions, Legba is represented as Mawu's masculine counterpart, thus being represented as a phallus or as a man with a prominent phallus.
Dan, who is Mawu's androgynous son, is represented as a rainbow serpent, and was to remain with her and act as a go-between with her other creations. As the mediator between the spirits and the living, Dan maintains balance, order, peace and communication.
All creation is considered divine and therefore contains the power of the divine. This is how medicines such as herbal remedies are understood, and explains the ubiquitous use of mundane objects in religious ritual.
Vodun talismans, called "fetishes", are objects such as statues or dried animal parts that are sold for their healing and spiritually rejuvenating properties.
African voodoo http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Voodoo healer http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Voodoo spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Love spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/voodoo-lost-love-spells.html
Money spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/money-spells.html
Revenge spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/revenge-spells.html
Curses spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/curses-spells.html
West African Vodun
Vodun is practiced by the Ewe people of eastern and southern Ghana, and southern and central Togo; and the Kabye people, Mina people, and Fon people of southern and central Togo, southern and central Benin.
It is also practiced by some Gun people of Lagos and Ogun in southwest Nigeria. All the aforementioned peoples belong to Gbe speaking ethnic groups of West Africa.
It is distinct from the various African traditional religions in the interiors of these countries and is the main source of religions with similar names found among the African Diaspora in the New World such as Haitian Vodou; Puerto Rican Vodú; Cuban Vodú; Dominican Vudú; Brazilian Vodum; and Louisiana Voodoo.
All of these closely related faiths are syncretized with Christianity to various degrees and with the traditional beliefs of the Kongo people and Indigenous American traditions.
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It is also practiced by some Gun people of Lagos and Ogun in southwest Nigeria. All the aforementioned peoples belong to Gbe speaking ethnic groups of West Africa.
It is distinct from the various African traditional religions in the interiors of these countries and is the main source of religions with similar names found among the African Diaspora in the New World such as Haitian Vodou; Puerto Rican Vodú; Cuban Vodú; Dominican Vudú; Brazilian Vodum; and Louisiana Voodoo.
All of these closely related faiths are syncretized with Christianity to various degrees and with the traditional beliefs of the Kongo people and Indigenous American traditions.
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Voodoo Spirits
Vodouisants believe in a Supreme God called Bondye, from the French bon "good" + Dieu "God". When it came in contact with Roman Catholicism, the Supreme Creator was associated with the Christian God, and the loa associated with the saints.
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African Spritual Religious Systems
Voodoo (Vodun) is a derivative of the world's oldest known religions which have been around in Africa since the beginning of human civilization.
Some conservative estimates these civilizations and religions to be over 10 000 years old. This then identify Voodoo as probably the best example of African syncretism in the Americas
Although its essential wisdom originated in different parts of Africa long before the Europeans started the slave trade, the structure of Voodoo, as we know it today, was born in Haiti during the European colonization of Hispaniola.
Ironically, it was the enforced immigration of enslaved African from different ethnic groups that provided the circumstances for the development of Voodoo.
European colonists thought that by desolating the ethnic groups, these could not come together as a community.
However, in the misery of slavery, the transplanted Africans found in their faith a common thread. They began to invoke not only their own Gods, but to practice rites other than their own.
In this process, they comingled and modified rituals of various ethnic groups. The result of such fusion was that the different religious groups integrated their beliefs, thereby creating a new religion: Voodoo.
The word "voodoo" comes from the West African word "vodun," meaning spirit. This Afro-Caribbean religion mixed practices from many African ethnics groups such as the Fon, the Nago, the Ibos, Dahomeans, Congos , Senegalese, Haussars, Caplaous, Mondungues, Mandinge, Angolese, Libyans, Ethiopians, and the Malgaches.
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Money spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/money-spells.html
Revenge spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/revenge-spells.html
Curses spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/curses-spells.html
Some conservative estimates these civilizations and religions to be over 10 000 years old. This then identify Voodoo as probably the best example of African syncretism in the Americas
Although its essential wisdom originated in different parts of Africa long before the Europeans started the slave trade, the structure of Voodoo, as we know it today, was born in Haiti during the European colonization of Hispaniola.
Ironically, it was the enforced immigration of enslaved African from different ethnic groups that provided the circumstances for the development of Voodoo.
European colonists thought that by desolating the ethnic groups, these could not come together as a community.
However, in the misery of slavery, the transplanted Africans found in their faith a common thread. They began to invoke not only their own Gods, but to practice rites other than their own.
In this process, they comingled and modified rituals of various ethnic groups. The result of such fusion was that the different religious groups integrated their beliefs, thereby creating a new religion: Voodoo.
The word "voodoo" comes from the West African word "vodun," meaning spirit. This Afro-Caribbean religion mixed practices from many African ethnics groups such as the Fon, the Nago, the Ibos, Dahomeans, Congos , Senegalese, Haussars, Caplaous, Mondungues, Mandinge, Angolese, Libyans, Ethiopians, and the Malgaches.
African voodoo http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Voodoo healer http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Voodoo spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Love spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/voodoo-lost-love-spells.html
Money spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/money-spells.html
Revenge spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/revenge-spells.html
Curses spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/curses-spells.html
African voodoo spells
African cultures are where voodoo practices originated and then spread all over the world. Usually Africans take voodoo practices as a way of living and beliefs which plays a huge role in day to day life.
A voodoo practice complies of communicating to the spirits and relying to the nature. African voodoo practitioner must be well trained in all aspects of healing, communicating with spirits, cursing and casting spells etc.
Almost all spells cast by African voodoo priest must have the attachment with herbs and spirits which regularly consulted to ensure the smooth working of the spell.
A voodoo priest is trained from tender age and made to rise in ranks according to how that individual capable of learning and mastering all strings attached to being priest or priestess.
The voodoo practitioners are well aware of the presence of God and his angels, deities, ghosts and spirit guides.
All those tittles form a spiritual world to which rituals and other ceremonies are regularly performed to bring closer those spirits to human beings.
These spirits are part and partial to daily activities of African societies responsible for the well being of human.
Being the African voodoo priest or priestess does not come cheaply since you spend years in training to attain various skills in voodoo magic whereby, to be a qualified voodoo practitioner you must have passed all the tests which even includes casting of different spells as well as reversing them.
To search a skillful voodoo priest and which easy access to different ingredients since most of the spells are cast using natural ingredients gives the added advantage to a voodoo practitioner to cast a well planned, skillful and high energetic spell.
Every voodoo practitioner in many cases has a deity which takes the lead amongst all spirits a priest or priestess summons.
The strength of this deity determines the power of the priest, some priests can be able to summon over 100 deities which adds to his spell casting success rate because these deities are capable of making the spells stronger and successful each time you cast them
African voodoo http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Voodoo healer http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Voodoo spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Love spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/voodoo-lost-love-spells.html
Money spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/money-spells.html
Revenge spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/revenge-spells.html
Curses spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/curses-spells.html
A voodoo practice complies of communicating to the spirits and relying to the nature. African voodoo practitioner must be well trained in all aspects of healing, communicating with spirits, cursing and casting spells etc.
Almost all spells cast by African voodoo priest must have the attachment with herbs and spirits which regularly consulted to ensure the smooth working of the spell.
A voodoo priest is trained from tender age and made to rise in ranks according to how that individual capable of learning and mastering all strings attached to being priest or priestess.
The voodoo practitioners are well aware of the presence of God and his angels, deities, ghosts and spirit guides.
All those tittles form a spiritual world to which rituals and other ceremonies are regularly performed to bring closer those spirits to human beings.
These spirits are part and partial to daily activities of African societies responsible for the well being of human.
Being the African voodoo priest or priestess does not come cheaply since you spend years in training to attain various skills in voodoo magic whereby, to be a qualified voodoo practitioner you must have passed all the tests which even includes casting of different spells as well as reversing them.
To search a skillful voodoo priest and which easy access to different ingredients since most of the spells are cast using natural ingredients gives the added advantage to a voodoo practitioner to cast a well planned, skillful and high energetic spell.
Every voodoo practitioner in many cases has a deity which takes the lead amongst all spirits a priest or priestess summons.
The strength of this deity determines the power of the priest, some priests can be able to summon over 100 deities which adds to his spell casting success rate because these deities are capable of making the spells stronger and successful each time you cast them
African voodoo http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Voodoo healer http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Voodoo spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Love spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/voodoo-lost-love-spells.html
Money spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/money-spells.html
Revenge spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/revenge-spells.html
Curses spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/curses-spells.html
The Origins of Voodoo
In A.D. 64, a great fire broke out in Rome for six days, and
devastated much of the city. According to the writer Tacitus, “Nero
fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class
hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace.”
The “abominations” committed by the early Christians were said to be cannibalism and incest, based on rumours circulating in Rome at that time which stemmed from a misunderstanding of the Eucharist.
This episode in the history of the Early Church shows how easily a religion, especially a relatively secretive one, can be misunderstood and misrepresented.
A similar case can perhaps be seen in the religion known as Voodoo (also known as Vodou or Voudon). For many, the word ‘Voodoo’ conjures up images of magical dolls with pins stuck in them to inflict pain on one’s enemies and the resurrection of the dead as zombies.
These images are the result of the misrepresentation of Voodoo by popular culture, and do not accurately represent Voodoo as understood by its practitioners.
Voudon refers to "a whole assortment of cultural elements: personal creeds and practices, including an elaborate system of folk medical practices; a system of ethics transmitted across generations [including] proverbs, stories, songs, and folklore... voudon is more than belief; it is a way of life," wrote Leslie Desmangles, a Haitian professor at Hartford's Trinity College in "The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal" (Prometheus Books, 1996).
“Voudon teaches belief in a supreme being called Bondye, an unknowable and uninvolved creator god,” reports Live Science .
“Voudon believers worship many spirits (called loa or Iwa), each one of whom is responsible for a specific domain or part of life.
So, for example, if you are a farmer you might give praise and offerings to the spirit of agriculture; if you are suffering from unrequited love, you would praise or leave offerings for Erzulie Freda, the spirit of love, and so on. In addition to helping (or impeding) human affairs, loa can also manifest themselves by possessing the bodies of their worshipers.
Followers of voudon also believe in a universal energy and a soul that can leave the body during dreams and spirit possession.”
When African slaves were brought to the Americas to work on plantations, they brought Voodoo with them. Their white masters, however, had other plans regarding the religious practice of their slaves.
A 1685 law, for instance, prohibited the practice of African religions, and required all masters to Christianize their slaves within eight days of their arrival in Haiti.
Although the slaves accepted Roman Catholicism, they did not give up their traditional beliefs either. Instead, the old and the new were syncretised, producing some unique results.
Many of the Catholic saints were identified with traditional Voodoo lwas (spirits) or held a double meaning for the practitioners of Voodoo. For instance, in Haitian Voodoo, St. Peter is recognised as Papa Legba, the gatekeeper of the spirit world, whilst St. Patrick is associated with Dumballah, the snake lwa.
Although African slaves were brought to Haiti and New Orleans about the same time, i.e. the 1720s, the development of Voodoo practice in each area is quite different.
In Haiti, Voodoo became a force that gave strength to and sustained the slaves through their hardships and suffering.
Between 1791 and 1804, a series of slave revolts inspired by Voodoo practice culminated in the expelling of the French from Haiti.
The colonists who survived fled to New Orleans, some accompanied by their French-speaking slaves who were Voodoo practitioners.
It is from these new arrivals that Voodoo began to grow in New Orleans. Although Voodoo was practiced in that part of the United States prior to 1791, it was not as strong a force as in Haiti, and was brutally suppressed each time it emerged. It was only in the 19 th century that Voodoo practices in New Orleans were codified by the enigmatic Marie Laveau.
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Love spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/voodoo-lost-love-spells.html
Money spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/money-spells.html
Revenge spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/revenge-spells.html
Curses spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/curses-spells.html
The “abominations” committed by the early Christians were said to be cannibalism and incest, based on rumours circulating in Rome at that time which stemmed from a misunderstanding of the Eucharist.
This episode in the history of the Early Church shows how easily a religion, especially a relatively secretive one, can be misunderstood and misrepresented.
A similar case can perhaps be seen in the religion known as Voodoo (also known as Vodou or Voudon). For many, the word ‘Voodoo’ conjures up images of magical dolls with pins stuck in them to inflict pain on one’s enemies and the resurrection of the dead as zombies.
These images are the result of the misrepresentation of Voodoo by popular culture, and do not accurately represent Voodoo as understood by its practitioners.
Voudon refers to "a whole assortment of cultural elements: personal creeds and practices, including an elaborate system of folk medical practices; a system of ethics transmitted across generations [including] proverbs, stories, songs, and folklore... voudon is more than belief; it is a way of life," wrote Leslie Desmangles, a Haitian professor at Hartford's Trinity College in "The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal" (Prometheus Books, 1996).
“Voudon teaches belief in a supreme being called Bondye, an unknowable and uninvolved creator god,” reports Live Science .
“Voudon believers worship many spirits (called loa or Iwa), each one of whom is responsible for a specific domain or part of life.
So, for example, if you are a farmer you might give praise and offerings to the spirit of agriculture; if you are suffering from unrequited love, you would praise or leave offerings for Erzulie Freda, the spirit of love, and so on. In addition to helping (or impeding) human affairs, loa can also manifest themselves by possessing the bodies of their worshipers.
Followers of voudon also believe in a universal energy and a soul that can leave the body during dreams and spirit possession.”
When African slaves were brought to the Americas to work on plantations, they brought Voodoo with them. Their white masters, however, had other plans regarding the religious practice of their slaves.
A 1685 law, for instance, prohibited the practice of African religions, and required all masters to Christianize their slaves within eight days of their arrival in Haiti.
Although the slaves accepted Roman Catholicism, they did not give up their traditional beliefs either. Instead, the old and the new were syncretised, producing some unique results.
Many of the Catholic saints were identified with traditional Voodoo lwas (spirits) or held a double meaning for the practitioners of Voodoo. For instance, in Haitian Voodoo, St. Peter is recognised as Papa Legba, the gatekeeper of the spirit world, whilst St. Patrick is associated with Dumballah, the snake lwa.
Although African slaves were brought to Haiti and New Orleans about the same time, i.e. the 1720s, the development of Voodoo practice in each area is quite different.
In Haiti, Voodoo became a force that gave strength to and sustained the slaves through their hardships and suffering.
Between 1791 and 1804, a series of slave revolts inspired by Voodoo practice culminated in the expelling of the French from Haiti.
The colonists who survived fled to New Orleans, some accompanied by their French-speaking slaves who were Voodoo practitioners.
It is from these new arrivals that Voodoo began to grow in New Orleans. Although Voodoo was practiced in that part of the United States prior to 1791, it was not as strong a force as in Haiti, and was brutally suppressed each time it emerged. It was only in the 19 th century that Voodoo practices in New Orleans were codified by the enigmatic Marie Laveau.
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Love spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/voodoo-lost-love-spells.html
Money spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/money-spells.html
Revenge spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/revenge-spells.html
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Thursday, 3 November 2016
What is voodoo
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Voodoo originated in the African kingdoms of Fon and Kongo as many as 6,000 years ago. The word "voodoo" comes from the Fon language, in which it means "sacred," "spirit" or "deity."
Other words used in Voodoo today also come from the Fon and Kongo languages. For example, a Voodoo priestess is often referred to as a mambo or manbo.
This is a combination of the Fon word for "mother" or "magical charm" and the Kongo word for "healer." The Fon kingdom was located in what is now southern Benin, a region some anthropologists refer to as the "cradle of Voodoo."
People also practice Voodoo in Togo, Ghana and other countries in northwestern Africa. Approximately 30 million people in Togo, Ghana and Benin practice Voodoo today. Voodoo is also an official religion in Benin, where as many as 60 percent of the people are followers
Since Voodoo is primarily an oral tradition, the names of gods, as well as the specifics of different rituals, can change in different regions or from generation to generation.
However, African Voodoo has several consistent qualities no matter where people practice it. Along with the belief in multiple gods and spiritual possession, these include:
Many of these traits, particularly ancestor worship, polytheism, and the importance of music and dance, are also important in other African religions.
So, in practice, Voodoo looks a lot like other traditional African religions. Many observances appear to be part celebration, part religious service incorporating rhythmic music, dancing and songs.
Many rituals take advantage of the natural landscape, such as rivers, mountains or trees. Through decoration and consecration, ordinary objects, like pots, bottles or parts of slaughtered animals, become sacred objects for use in rituals.
In parts of Africa, people who want to become spiritual leaders in the Voodoo community can enter religious centers, which are much like convents or monasteries.
In some communities, initiates symbolically die, spending three days and nights in complete seclusion before being returned to the outside world.
Initiates learn the rituals, colors, foods and objects associated with different deities, as well as how to communicate with the loa. The spirits have different personalities and different requirements of their followers, much like the gods in Greek and Roman myths.
Some people associate Voodoo with evil, but many of its rituals, even those that include the sacrifice of live animals, focus on respect and peace.
Its religious leaders become community leaders, providing guidance and settling disputes. Leaders also frequently provide medical care in the form of folk medicine.
Priests, priestesses and other practitioners typically dedicate their work to helping and caring for others. Curses, witchcraft and spells designed to do harm fall instead into the category of bo.
However, most anthropologists agree that Voodoo leaders have a working knowledge of bo, which is separate from Voodoo, believing that understanding how it works is necessary to fighting it.
Sorcerers known as botono, rather than Voodoo priests and priestesses, are said to control more sinister spells. In some cases, though, people act as both priests and botono, depending on the situation.
This African form of Voodoo is a precursor to the Voodoo practiced in Haiti and other parts of the Western hemisphere.
The regions of Africa where Voodoo has thrived are also areas that were heavily trafficked during the slave trade. Slavery brought Voodoo to the Americas. Next, we'll look at the changes to Voodoo that took place on the other side of the Atlantic.
If one twin dies, the other will often carry a twin doll, believed to carry the deceased sibling's spirit. In Haitian Voodoo, twins have special powers that can be dangerous, and a ceremony to the loa Dossou prevents them from doing harm. In Benin, twins also symbolize fertility
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Voodoo originated in the African kingdoms of Fon and Kongo as many as 6,000 years ago. The word "voodoo" comes from the Fon language, in which it means "sacred," "spirit" or "deity."
Other words used in Voodoo today also come from the Fon and Kongo languages. For example, a Voodoo priestess is often referred to as a mambo or manbo.
This is a combination of the Fon word for "mother" or "magical charm" and the Kongo word for "healer." The Fon kingdom was located in what is now southern Benin, a region some anthropologists refer to as the "cradle of Voodoo."
People also practice Voodoo in Togo, Ghana and other countries in northwestern Africa. Approximately 30 million people in Togo, Ghana and Benin practice Voodoo today. Voodoo is also an official religion in Benin, where as many as 60 percent of the people are followers
Since Voodoo is primarily an oral tradition, the names of gods, as well as the specifics of different rituals, can change in different regions or from generation to generation.
However, African Voodoo has several consistent qualities no matter where people practice it. Along with the belief in multiple gods and spiritual possession, these include:
- Veneration of ancestors
- Rituals or objects used to convey magical protection
- Animal sacrifices used to show respect for a god, to gain its favor or to give thanks
- The use of fetishes, or objects meant to contain the essence or power of particular spirits
- Ceremonial dances, which often involve elaborate costumes and masks
- Ceremonial music and instruments, especially including drums
- Divination using the interpretation of physical activities, like tossing seed hulls or pulling a stone of a certain color from a tree
- The association of colors, foods, plants and other items with specific loa and the use of these items to pay tribute to the loa
Many of these traits, particularly ancestor worship, polytheism, and the importance of music and dance, are also important in other African religions.
So, in practice, Voodoo looks a lot like other traditional African religions. Many observances appear to be part celebration, part religious service incorporating rhythmic music, dancing and songs.
Many rituals take advantage of the natural landscape, such as rivers, mountains or trees. Through decoration and consecration, ordinary objects, like pots, bottles or parts of slaughtered animals, become sacred objects for use in rituals.
In parts of Africa, people who want to become spiritual leaders in the Voodoo community can enter religious centers, which are much like convents or monasteries.
In some communities, initiates symbolically die, spending three days and nights in complete seclusion before being returned to the outside world.
Initiates learn the rituals, colors, foods and objects associated with different deities, as well as how to communicate with the loa. The spirits have different personalities and different requirements of their followers, much like the gods in Greek and Roman myths.
Some people associate Voodoo with evil, but many of its rituals, even those that include the sacrifice of live animals, focus on respect and peace.
Its religious leaders become community leaders, providing guidance and settling disputes. Leaders also frequently provide medical care in the form of folk medicine.
Priests, priestesses and other practitioners typically dedicate their work to helping and caring for others. Curses, witchcraft and spells designed to do harm fall instead into the category of bo.
However, most anthropologists agree that Voodoo leaders have a working knowledge of bo, which is separate from Voodoo, believing that understanding how it works is necessary to fighting it.
Sorcerers known as botono, rather than Voodoo priests and priestesses, are said to control more sinister spells. In some cases, though, people act as both priests and botono, depending on the situation.
This African form of Voodoo is a precursor to the Voodoo practiced in Haiti and other parts of the Western hemisphere.
The regions of Africa where Voodoo has thrived are also areas that were heavily trafficked during the slave trade. Slavery brought Voodoo to the Americas. Next, we'll look at the changes to Voodoo that took place on the other side of the Atlantic.
In many Voodoo communities, people consider twins to be sacred. According to the tradition, twins have two halves of the same soul.
If one twin dies, the other will often carry a twin doll, believed to carry the deceased sibling's spirit. In Haitian Voodoo, twins have special powers that can be dangerous, and a ceremony to the loa Dossou prevents them from doing harm. In Benin, twins also symbolize fertility
African voodoo http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Voodoo healer http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Voodoo spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za
Love spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/voodoo-lost-love-spells.html
Money spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/money-spells.html
Revenge spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/revenge-spells.html
Curses spells http://www.africanvoodoo.co.za/curses-spells.html
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