Voodoo Festival in Saut d'Eau, Haiti. Person in trance, with eyes and by jerky movements, is possessed by one of the spirits of
Voodoo Festival in Saut d'Eau, Haiti. Person in trance, with eyes and by jerky movements, is possessed by one of the spirits of Iwa. Voodoo adherents once a year perform the pilgrimage to coincide with the date that was seen in 1847 a vision of the Virgin Mary. In general, voodoo is considered that there is an ultimate supernatural entity named in various ways, the most common Bondye or Mawu (sometimes referred to a partner, Mawu and Lisa), regent of the supernatural world, but this is inaccessible and remains outside the world of humans, so that communication with the supernatural world is to be accomplished through the numerous praises (the Baron Samedi, the Maman Brigitte, Damballa, etc), supernatural entities also act as intermediary deities and that actually make up the backbone of voodoo, each one a different personality and multiple modes to be praised (by songs, dances, rituals, symbols and others). While there is not a homogeneous religious structure, a voodoo priest serves to contact the invoked praise, talking loa through it, so the priests is attributed great power, and generically called houngan, or whether it is a woman, mambo. The term Bokor is reserved for houngan using his power for evil, it would be assimilated to the word witch.
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