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| Francois’ son, exiled to France in 1786 |
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| • Francois Papa Doc Duvalier. |
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| Lorded over Spanish western portion of hispanola called saint domingue |
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| haitian slave, from africa. Knowledgeable in vodou and medicine helped to spark the hatian revolution |
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| Slave who swam from the caribbean to Haiti, he was mythical but united vodou with a martyr story |
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| Leadere of the Haitian Revolution |
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| First Democratically elect leader of Haiti in 91. Catholic priest |
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| Francis Duvalier used Vodou to gain support and fear by dressing as a spirit and presenting his self as a houngan or vodou priest |
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| supreme being, too big for people to understand. LWA are manifestations of his charactaristics |
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| Animating energy force, causes some sort of danger of attack from negative spirits |
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| where the spirit and physical realms come together, must be channeled for any vodou ceremony |
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| Banners with an image associated with the Lwa. when summoning the Lwa, this comes out for encouragement |
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| Fiery, violent family of spirits, emerged in slavery during the hatian revolution |
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| Ancient Benevolent spirits, from africa |
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| sacred rattle of the oungan |
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| Personal Lwa, master of the head. You are born with a met tet, you don't get to decide, associated with your personality. |
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| personal soul that animates the body and eventually becomes the ancestral spirit. Can get angry, the ancester spirit after you pass. |
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| Your soul, essential life force which resides within you - little good angel who returns to bondai |
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| center post, gateway between spirit and physical world |
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| washing of the head, vodou baptism, welcomes one into a vodou family or priesthood, held after first time being mounted |
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| graded initiation into vodou, required for priesthood. turns suffering into power. hold boiled dumplings in hands or on feet |
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| taking of the sacred rattle, final step in initiation into vodou |
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| part of the initiation ceremony where initiates are taken to ceremonial area to learn special secrets. Recieve strong lwa forming bonds, kind of a rebirth |
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| Leaf doctors of Haiti, people who know how to talk to the Lwa and utilize leafs and herbs as medecine |
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| spiritual insight - openness to communication with Lwas, knowing ritual, wisdom |
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| Spiritual manifestation of bondeye's charactaristics, each has a specific realm of influence and charactaristics, known by people |
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| serve the spirits in ceremony |
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| uninitiated people who participate in vodou ceremony |
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| assit in ceremony - commitment of service is lifelong |
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| purhased powere, picking up wandering spirits - power purchase |
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| stand in to hold baptisms instead of a catholic priest |
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| object imbued with negative magical attributes |
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| first and last spirit called in ceremony, speaks all languages to assist humans in communication with lwa |
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| not a healer spirit, ancient and highley respected - knowledge and wisdom. When mounted, people slither like a snake and hiss. likes eggs, sugar, flour - pure white food. Family lineage spirit |
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| Fertility, rainbows and snakes, wife of danbala |
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| Associated with metal smithing and computers. Turn to him with new experiences - immigrants. war power figure, petwo. Wreckless |
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| Rural peasant man who loves to eat, rada spirit |
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| thunder and agriculture, also rada spirit |
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| Femenine rada spirit of love and desire, all types of desire anyrhing fine in life and pleasureable, never fulfilled and highley insecure |
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| petwo mother spirit, tempermental and fiery - fights for children. Tongue cut out. Virtue model of single mothers. shows intergender relationships are male dominated. Most like mama lola |
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| Rada Spirit, female water spirit associated with healing, wife of agwe, rada spirit |
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| Center of many webs of relationship. Focuses on life and death, found in cemetaries. Coffin, grave, and cross are symbols. Sensuality and children associated. Inevitability of death juxaposed with pleasures of life. Trixter. |
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