#vodoun

[haitianartlover]

STIVENSON MAGLOIRE (HAITIAN, 1963-1994)

[unbfacts]

[hecatesdelights]

Papa Legba, god of crossroads in Vodou, and emissary between the gods and man, he is also guardian of the poto mitan, the central pole in the place of worship, which acts as a channel through which the gods may descend and temporarily possess the faithful during ceremonies.

[moonfirebrides]

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

Dan Stevens

[aearthwise]

Mami Wata Sculpture by Artist Ismaila Putuenchi

[vale-priestess]

From @publicdomainreview ~ Born in Five Points, Manhattan to a Black mother and a white father who left soon after his birth, Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825–1875) grew up in poverty that deepened after his mother died of cholera when he was six. After a difficult, itinerant childhood, he recounts working on ships sailing between New England, Cuba, and Britain, before beginning to lecture on spiritualism and perform as a trance medium. In 1858, however, he publicly broke with the spiritualists, citing their racism, the hypocrisy of their radicalism, and their narrow view of the immaterial world. In a series of lectures, he attacked the characters of leading spiritualists, ridiculed their trances as “jugglery” (or worse, demon possession), dismissed their “business of world-bettering” as hypocrisy, and railed against some of their central tenets, such as the belief popularized by Andrew Jackson Davis that only select souls are immortal and thus all spirits are good. He concludes, “My crime was rete mucosmal”, residing in the color of his skin. Randolph relates that after a harrowing suicide attempt (or, as he explained it elsewhere, a transformative experience with Egyptian hashish), he finally left spiritualism behind. While Western occultists balked at a “tawny student of Esoterics” like Randolph, they often invested their knowledge with power by racializing it, attributing its secrets to Oriental, Chaldaic, Persian, Egyptian, Asiatic, or Arab sources. Randolph trafficked in this manufactured exoticism too, but also developed a philosophically and politically complicated theory of the occult anchored in his own racialized identity. “I owe my successes,—mental,—to my conglomerate blood; my troubles and poverty to the same source”. He spent two of his most productive writing years in Louisiana, where he encountered the area’s rich African diasporic religious life. Although in one of his lectures he boasts of exposing “the whole tribe of voudeaux in New Orleans”, he also concedes “it was from one of the voudeaux queens . . . that I gained much of my knowledge”, and elsewhere he cites hoodoo and obeah practices and flaunts the secrets he learned from “the quadroons of Louisiana”. His self-identification as a “sang mêlée” — Randolph’s curiously feminized form of the colonial intellectual Moreau de Saint-Méry’s term for people with the smallest fraction of African ancestry — afforded him “peculiar mental power and almost marvelous versatility”. Because he already channeled multiple racial identities within his body, Randolph reasoned, he was predisposed to channel other identities, not of this world. [More at link.]

[orphic-muse]

Vodoun Gambada

As a protector, Gambada devours and returns to sender the evil eye, negative entities, witchcraft and sorcery sent to their adeptes. It is said that those who harbor ill intention or seek to destroy an adepte of Gambada, seek their own death.

Gambada unobstructs obstacles and delivers abundance swiftly while protecting the receiver of these graces.

Cults of Gambada are found among the Ewe and Fon across Bénin, Togo and Ghana.

[iartsysam]

In the garden: Azaka Mede, Kouzen Zaka, Oko

Agriculture is the source of our food supply.

Arguably the most crucial aspect of agriculture is that it's the source of the world's food supply.

No matter where or what you are eating, the ingredients in your meals come from somewhere. All roads lead to agriculture.

Good farmers produce an abundance of healthy food and many other valuable goods.

Farmers take care of the soil, conserve water resources and wildlife, and they're the caretakers of mother nature.

Farmers play a significant role in community life.

Minis Azaka (Minister of Agriculture) is a praise name and aspect of the Lwa (Vodou spirit/energy) Azaka Mede, an agricultural spirit known for his folk wisdom and "country" dialect.

Very popular throughout Haiti, Kouzen Zaka, or Azaka, is the lwa of harvest and agriculture.

He is responsible for protecting the fields and the work there and promoting harvests and livestock.

He is a very good-natured man in the mountains, gentle and respected by all for being a hard worker; he enjoys the most simple things in life.

Kouzen Zaka is a master in treating diseases with leaves and herbs and is known for keeping his most essential herbs in his djakout (straw bag).

In some ways, he is also the living memory of Haiti; he carries the weight and knowledge of subsistence farming and how to survive with very little.

He is the reminder of where many Haitians come from and what Haiti used to be: a more rural island where farming and agriculture ruled over most other businesses.

He is often referred to as a lwa travay/work lwa for his unwavering work ethic.

Kouzen knows what it is to be hungry and to suffer, so he works all the time to make sure he never has to suffer again and that his family and those that he loves don’t suffer either.

[ryanazayku]

Making oils and potions

[haitianartlover]

Frantz Zephirin

[queenofallwitches]

2 hour Sunday spiritism & sanse ceremony… spiritual work of that magnitude always take a lot out of me. But after I eat and drink and lay down to sleep, I feel energised and invigorated. Pulses of pure creative inspiration pour through my attempts to surrender into sleep. I love my protective patron spirits 💕✨ #altar #magick #spiritism #mamiwata #witchcraft #voudou #sanse #lasirena #spiritist #stmartha #santamarta #ayidawedo #21commissions #haitianvodou #lwa #dominadora #goddessspirituality ##vodoun spiritualpath #priestessofthesea #priestess #highpriestess #witchesofinstagram #goddessenergy #divinefeminine #templeofrebellion https://www.instagram.com/p/CkVwad0SOHf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[luckyme713]

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[jamieandgeorgedashigz]

Krystal adore danser élégamment à n'importe quelle danse, y compris une danse vaudoun pendant la Fête nationale du Vaudoun, un jour férié au Bénin, en Afrique de l'Ouest.

-Jamie

[emperornorton47]

Me as Baron Samedi