#voudoun

[harpagornis]

Fright Krewe review

Fright Krewe is one of Dreamworks' less talked about shows and it's a damn shame. Taking a page from Goosebumps and other horror aimed at children, ths show is atmospheric, creepy and not afraid to show blood and violence, while still remaining sufficiently light-hearted. It really feels like a young adult novel being translated into animation, barring some of the more childish dialogue from Stanley.

The show is truly an homage to New Orleans folklore and to Voudoun religion. The idea of the protagonists having powers granted from the loa isn't just a gimmick; there are episodes where actual religious practises are on display to call upon their powers. And of course there are a ton of obscure monsters that don't even have wiki pages.

Overall a fun ride across two seasons

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Melita Denning & Osborne Phillips - Voudoun Fire - LLewellyn - 1979 (photography by Gloria Rudolph)

[reasoningdaily]

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Outside of Cuba, Palo is generally called Palo Mayombe ; however, this is a misnomer since not all lineages and houses are truly Mayombe – in fact, most are not. To my knowledge there is only one (perhaps a couple) Munanzo outside of Cuba that are accepted as a true Mayombe houses amongst the elders on the Island.

In Cuba, “Palo Monte” is used far more frequently to speak to the entire body of Regla-Kongo Palo tradition. Other terms such as Palo Cruzado (‘crossed palo’, denoting heavy syncretization with other religions), Palo Cristiano (‘Christian palo’) and Palo Judio (‘Jewish palo’, not actually jewish, but simply non-Christian) deserve a brief mention. However, these are not specific ramas of Palo, but rather terms that are used to denote the degree of syncretism and mixing in individual lineages and practices.

There are many houses (munansos) and foundational lineages (ramas) of Palo Monte, but commonly they are understood to fit within three major  forms or sub ‘reglas’ within the greater Regla-Kongo:

Mayombe

Biyumba (Vrillumba o Brillumba)

Kimbiza

Palo Mayombe is the oldest and most orthodox form of Palo. The origins trace back to a specific Nkisi cult in the Mayombe region of Cabinda (NW Congo) from where it gets its name and the tradition came into its own in the caves and wilderness of the Pinar del Rio highlands of Cuba. Mayomberos typically shun away from syncretism and are extremely orthodox in our practices. The most well known of the Mayombe houses are the houses of “Batalla Saca Empeño” and “Bejuco Nfinda”.

Palo Biyumba developed out of Palo Mayombe and rose in popularity during Cuba’s war of Independence. It was the first regla to initiate people of non-Bantu ancestry and frequently worked with and developed pacts with dead spirits of no particular blood or spiritual lineage (often times to send them out for warring intentions). It is a vast regla and has many ramas and sub-lineages. Indeed, a great number of houses today are some offshoot of Biyumba. Broadly speaking, Palo Biyumba is more oriented toward the various mpungos and over time some lineages have introduced a degree of syncretization with elements of Ocha and Catholicism.

Palo Kimbisa was popular on the eastern side of the Cuban island and has absorbed many influences from Catholicism to Freemasonry to Haitian Vodou. Kimbisa likely originated within an already syncretized Catholic-Kongo religious tradition from the Kingdom of Kongo following Kimpa Vita’s Christian reform in the 18th C. In Kimbisa the mpungos are paramount and are seen as divinities and saints. Thus, Kimbiseros will venerate the mpungos and focus much of their work calling upon them, instead of upon the dead. The most well known Kimbisa rama is Andrés Petit’s La Regla Kimbisa de Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje.

The Kimbisa prendas/ngangas I have seen also tend to be huge in comparison to Mayombe. Although my elders have reassured me that there are Kimbisa prendas that are built almost identical to Mayombe as there is more variance per house/lineage than across the greater sub-reglas. It is also common to see Kimbisa (as well as Briyumba) prendas with crucifixes. Moreover, many Kimbiseros and Biymberos will make a distinction between prendas judias or prendas ndoki(those without crucifixes and containing the bones of non-baptized individuals) used to curse, kill, and other malefica; and prendas cristianas (with cross and baptized nfumbe) used to heal and general benefica. This distinction does not appear in Mayombe.

Assortment of now defunct/dormant Briyumba Ngangas on display in the Museo Municipal de Regla

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[orionali]

my updated take/design on arguably voudoun's most well-known loa: Baron Samedi (sans his top hat since I wanted to showcase his makeup)

he's a major supporting character in my story

[underground-hip-hop-affiliated]

Bobby Hemmitt | Initiation into Voudoun (Aug00), Detroit, Excerpt

[lesparis83]

also the one thing I appreciated from my brief tma hyperfixation that is sadly absent from my current special interests is that Jonathan Sims doesn’t have any official art, so I came up with an entire backstory about him being Haitian and like my friend drew me Haitian Jon and all this stuff. unfortunately I’m now back to being obsessed w a bunch of white men so I can’t force any of those characters to be Caribbean like me

[cosmicanger]

From the book “Spirit Desire, Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Voudoun” by Sokari Ekine

[blacksapphrodite]

Including Gods in Your Witchcraft

Today, I’m going to talk about something a little different. This topic is something that I tend to consider more in private, and it took me a bit to decide how I wanted to talk about it. The topic? Including gods in your witchcraft, spells, etc. If you’ve flipped through any spellbooks for sale nowadays, or visited any site--including my own--you’ve probably at least seen in mentioned in passing. “Invoke any gods you work with,” or “Call on X”, or “Invoke Y”. Yes, many of these spells might even give you a specific god to work with, and to be honest, that’s something I take a bit of issue with for a number of reasons. 

Now, I’m certainly not going to call myself an expert in this area. I’ve only been working with one goddess--Lady Aphrodite--for a few years off and on, and I’m learning more each day. But my experiences over these few years have certainly led me to form some opinions, and those are what I’m going to share with you today. Working with Lady Aphrodite has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done, and as I dip into the rest of the Hellenic pantheon, I’m excited--but nervous--to share some of my thoughts with you. 

I took my dive into witchcraft when I was in college, so about 9-10 years ago (yikes). When I started looking up spells to try, I was surprised to find that so many spells mentioned call upon some god or another in order to complete the spell. Now, this shouldn’t have been very surprising--a lot of witches are Wiccan, and it makes sense for them to include such things in their spellcraft. This was a bit of a turn off for me, until I learned that witchcraft could be as secular as it is religious to some folks. As someone who was raised in a Black, Christian environment, that made dipping my toes in a little easier. Spells would note that you could take out the invocation or switch out gods to suit your personal taste, and often I would do just that. 

As noted, I started working with Lady Aphrodite a few years ago. I consider my work with her and my exploring Hellenism to be separate from my witchcraft, but sometimes I combine the two. And as I continued to work and learn, it concerned me that some people would mention the invocation of specific gods in spells, almost haphazardly. Why would you instruct someone--especially someone who is probably newish to witchcraft--to call upon a god they likely know nothing about? 

And therein lies my issue. Working with gods is an amazing and humbling experience--your relationship to them might be casual or passing, and it might be deep and personal. But regardless, these are gods. We need to be respectful when approaching them--introductions and offerings are almost a prerequisite in my book. But more importantly, before even that, we need to know who exactly it is we’re calling upon. Gods are not a monolith. They have personalities, likes and dislikes, levels of decorum they expect, and so on. They have eons of history behind them. These are all things we need to take note of before calling upon someone we know nothing about, with no prep work done beforehand. Some gods may be fine with this--many others may not be. Some gods are more dangerous than others. The very least we can do before approaching and invoking a god we know little about is to read about them, properly introduce ourselves, and offer a prayer before asking for their assistance in a spell. 

We also need to note whether or not this is a god/pantheon that’s open to us to begin with. Many religions--such as Voudoun--are closed to outsiders, and yet their gods are thrown around willy nilly as if  they’re open to approach from anyone. This could lead to as small an issue as the spell not working, or as disastrous an issue as offending the god. This isn’t to discourage anyone from including gods in their witchcraft, just an urging to do your research beforehand. Casting a spell isn’t as simple as finding the spell online and following the directions--you need to do some preparation and reading beforehand, to make sure you’re doing it correctly. 

All that being said, gods can be a great aid to spellwork when all the correct steps are taken. There’s certainly nothing wrong with having a god on your side pushing your spell to work for you--though let’s be real, they can be rather unpredictable with the outcomes. :) If you’re considering including gods in your witchcraft, there are a couple of steps you can take: 

If this isn’t a god you work with regularly, do some reading on them. Glance at their wikipedia page, check out some books if you’re able, read articles on them, get to know their history and their stories. 

Introduce yourself! You wouldn’t like it if a stranger on the street came up to you and asked for your help and time with something completely random with no hello or thanks, would you? 

Make an offering as part of your spell, or before your spell--this is why it’s important to read. Find out what they like and how they like it. 

Always say thank you afterwards. 

Depending on how your spell/introductions went, consider working with them more regularly! There could be a relationship there to work on and develop. 

Always be cautious with your spellwork, and respectful in approaching deities--that’s what most of this boils down to. In our rush and excitement to start casting spells or working with gods, we can get careless, and carelessness is dangerous. Better to be knowledgeable and prepared, even if it means slowing down. This is something I wish I’d known more about when I started looking into spellcasting and witchcraft as a whole, so now I’m passing that information down to all of you! I hope this helps, and isn’t too much of a turnoff. It helps to know that witchcraft is just as much studying as it is spellcasting. ;) 

I’ll be doing a lot more posts on deities in the future if I can help it, and with February coming up I plan to try and do some posts on lovely Lady Aphrodite, so keep an eye out for those, and thank you for reading! 

(I'm cleaning up my blog and reposting some of my spells/etc that were once hosted on my website.💕)

[rozieramati]

From the book “Spirit Desire, Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Voudoun” by Sokari Ekine 

[kimyoonmiauthor]

I thought it might be fun to list "Best cultures for", imo, BTW, doesn't include SK in most cases.

So using my Anthro degree for something. This is Academic interest. I'm only giving the loose reasons why. I'm not particularly promoting fetishization here. I'm saying, do the research into this specific culture for this specific cultural aspect. rather than blind worship.

Agriculture

Of the three major regions, (West Asia, Southern China-ish, Meso America/Northern South America) hands down, The Americas.

I mean, if you look at the genetics and origin of the potato, that itself is super impressive. Through domestication alone, they managed to make the potato grow in all environments, AND changed the amount of genes the potato has. !@#$ What? Really? And then you have things like Amaranth, corn, squash, beans of different kinds, quinoa, tomatoes which is related to nightshade, which is used more than eggplant worldwide, and Sweet Potatoes which they gave to Polynesians. Also single handedly through the Potato and Sweet Potato saved China, Korea, Ireland, and several other places from famine, thus also helping to end the slavery cycle in Korea, China and Japan. I mean... who are you going to rank the highest in that case?

Second place ranking I have to give to Western Asia. Daaaaamn, you have wheat, oats, barley, sheep, goats, cows, horses (supposedly), pigs. That's pretty impressive.

Third place Southern China—rice production, most of the world's commercial flowers, soybeans, a lot of the fruits including citrus. You also get honey.

Honorable mention to South Asia for Chickens. (Indonesia and India specifically)

Despite this, apples are my favorite fruit. lol I need to eat a Courtland apple please. I can eat them by the bushel.

Sea navigation

Hands down, Polynesians, beats the pants off of everyone else by a nautical league. When you can feel sea currents with your hands, be able to get your people first to the South Pacific from China, and then navigate ALLLLL the way to the Americas and beat Europeans, Yes, definitely they get the crown several times over. I mean... think hard about it. When you memorize stick charts, casually and then don't have them at sea and sometimes your tattoos are only brief reminders, FLOORED.

Make Europeans in the same time period look terrible.

House design

I'm looking at passive solar, specifically rather than aesthetics. For me, this is kinda toss up. Indigenous peoples rocked it pretty hard, especially in the South West US into Mexico region. They were exceptionally good at regulating air flow. But Koreans invented underfloor heating. And Chinese figured out Feng Shui which is just Passive solar+ a bunch of other stuff that's practical. (Such as your bathroom shouldn't be above your kitchen). But I have to admit I also admire some of the Indian Passive solar efforts (subcontinent). This one is hard to decide. But if you're researching, I'd look there.

Gender

My favorite to point to is Bugis people of Indonesia. 5 different genders. Freaking awesome. Of course it's a bit disciplined these days by the government, but it's worth investigating.

As I wrote before East Asian gender systems of the past were often more fluid and flexible and still are compared to European ideologues.

Clothing?

No one has impressed me that much, tbh. It's a pick and choose. I can choose the most impractical, but not the one that wins my heart for inventiveness.

Crakows, though, crack me up every single last time. Especially for the Phallic nature and that they were associated with men. But that's on the impractical list. That's also why I submitted it for review on History Hit's fashion list. I haven't gotten over it since I first saw it, I think it was on a Dan Snow documentary about British kings. I mean look at them and resist laughing your butt off.

Religion

I personally think that real Voudoun is much cooler than what's in the movies, which is really racist 98% of the time. It is a Synchronized religion, and it is Christian-based in some ways, but c'mon, look it up and be impressed.

BTW, I really dislike the conflation of zombies with Voudou, granted as an outsider, since it belongs to Bokor and is a warning against *becoming a slave* not about white people trying to shoot zombies with grey and darker faces because OMG, slave uprising psychology.

Zonbis, are cooler than zombies since it's about overcoming and resisting masters, rather than about masters mass killing their slaves, which is what the later meaning seems to say. Ad Zombie movies are at their best when they symbolically get the original concept and meaning. So like becoming a work drone.

^^ I still have a soft spot for Muism as a Korean, but ya know, Korean. I lean towards liking shamanism, probably because of the historical acceptance of LGBTQIA and disability.

Shamanism is also appealing in some ways because often shamanism says that if everything in your life is going wrong, then that might be a sign of powers or spirits calling to you, rather than saying in the old Christian ideology that you've sinned deeply, so you need to repent.

But this is usually not what people are asking about when they are thinking about religions. They usually want the polytheistic, Jade Emperor, Greek, Roman, Egyptians, Norse route. Or Monotheism. Kinda dull, really. Where are the other types in fiction. I mean, Druids?

Give me some totemism for once.

Government System

Look up Wigan Council. I might also be biased towards it because of Gaya, but it's a way to play with things and also allow for more LGBTQIA royalty. Royalty without autocracy?

Inventions?

Hands down, no doubt, Islamic Empire. I mean, when you have Automatons without electricity, you're winning without question. When your people are inventing surgery, calculating the size of the Earth, allowing women to read, learn and write, inventing the lens, which is the cornerstone of so many inventions, and you got Europe's Bacon by inventing the Scientific Method first, historical crush does't cut it. I mean, when you can calculate a pointed arch, do geometric mosaics with mathematical principles, I am floored beyond reason.

Conclusion

This isn't to say I'm not impressed by specific things from other cultures as well, but this is broad strokes. Vedanta Hinduism, for me, is impressive from India. And I really like the practicality of Hanbok. (Why hanbok over hanfu is a long, long post) And I've raved over kimchi before multiple, multiple times, more than you know (quora... I think I have the most answers and I also answer with the food science of Kimchi down to the bacteria.) BTW, dumplings are damned clever.

What are your favorite culture for specific things from those cultures? Would you choose different cultures for each of these things? If so, why? What impressive things have I missed that have floored you?

[cain-sawyer-son-of-the-saw]

@puppet200

I don’t know if I ever explained Rosette’s backstory in detail for ya…??? My memory can be terrible sometimes. Fair warning, it’s GRAPHIC. But it’s also a musical in my mind! So I’ll try to include the songs.

The intro:

Rosette went on a road trip to New Orleans, Louisiana with some friends in June of 1974.

They wanted to go to a Voudoun event, to see some of the artifacts and hear about some curses. Unfortunately, one of the group is framed for stealing a very important token that is on display, angering a priestess.

The item gets broken in the scuffle, releasing the curse it contains on one of the group but they don’t know who. And after the priestess takes the life of one of the group to repair the token, Rosette and her remaining friends flee back into Texas. In their fear, they don’t realize one of the tires is getting low. It finally blows out in Newt County, in front of the Sawyer house, forcing them to ask for help. Rosette stays with the vehicle, grappling with her fear and grief.

While she stays with her car, Rosette soon hears her friends’ terrified screams and goes on her own to investigate. She discovers a mess of blood and various scraps, leading her to assume that her friends are both dead, just before the Sawyers sneak up on her. After a brief scuffle in which Rosette gets hacked at with the chainsaw, Rosette is hauled off. It’s quickly discovered that her limbs grow back (the curse) once cut off. Drayton sees this as their new way to survive, has her chained up in the barn and orders Bubba to look after her. When Rosette comes to, Bubba is very gently cleaning her up and she freaks out, despite this, making Bubba flee. However, Bubba is already starting to feel something for her and when Drayton orders him to cut her up again, he is reluctant…

A few weeks pass, in which Rosette starts to realize that Bubba doesn’t *want* to hurt her. She learns that he just wants to please his family and be loved and it starts to change her view of him. Things even get a little NSFW “off camera”. And Nubbins finds out and tells Drayton, leading them to try to corner Bubba.

Bubba feels pressured after this and is distraught. Meanwhile, Rosette contemplates all the subtle signs she’s been picking up from him and starts to realize that her feelings run much deeper now than she had anticipated.

Soon, Bubba shows up distraught about what Drayton has asked of him. Rosette is quick to pick up on this as well and gives him a push in a better direction by admitting her love for him… and he admits it back, deciding to stand by her and their future child.

But it’s not a happy ending just yet. It turns out, Rosette’s best friend survived and returned to search for her as soon as she could get the resources to do so.

Rosette has to face off with her now ex-BFF in order to save herself, her child and her lover. The other Sawyers are drawn to the chaos and witness the outcome. Impressed with Rosette’s willingness to defend Bubba and their unborn baby, Drayton decides to officially welcome her as part of the family, as Bubba’s wife.

I think this might be my first time releasing the full musical soundtrack.

[strangeauthor]

i remember when lily orchard said "oh the voudoun butchering is fake! they're lying to shit on women" and everyone in the fandom believed it solely on her word alone

the last person you should EVER listen to is lily fucking orchard lol

[lightdancer1]

Nanny was Cudjoe's sister and the first civilian Black leader in this hemisphere:

Nanny, Cudjoe, Quaio, and their other brother were all a group of Ashanti who were taken on the hellbound ships to Jamaica. They were also the group of siblings who led the first large Maroon war against the British Empire, founded independent cities and sought to govern them, with Nanny the first civilian Black leader in this hemisphere and one of the first examples of Black women's excellence in this. Beyond this, Nanny was a sorceress in the tradition of Obeah, which unlike Voudoun and Santeria and Candomble lacks the Yoruba influence (as indeed she was not, in fact, Yoruba) and is a very specifically *African* Black resistance leader who kept to her people's ways, their languages, and refused to yield to tyranny.

In her lifetime her personal achievements independent of her three brothers are said to have led 1,000 people to freedom.

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

what are your influences/inspirations for your art!! like, stylistically or thematically!

visual art, stylistically:

the Borderlands artstyle obviously. cel shading and outlines my fucking beloved. I am so fucking sad that gbx themselves is kinda toning down on it and that they didn't implement the crosshatch shader they put in teasers for bl3. come the fuck on

the Psychonauts artstyle. even if I do no longer draw in the hyperdeformed style I took from that game I still often deform characters and exagerrate their main features in order to make them more distinct. it also kinda made me addicted to shape language lolmao

Team Fortress 2. I am fucking serious btw. blame that one youtube video on its artstyle. it's been a formative experience for me when I watched it and it stuck itself in my brain. it made me appreciate blockiness/solidity/stockiness in art, as well as teaching me how to limit color palettes and how to draw attention to the important parts of the character by using color contrast.

as for actual artists and not. Video Games. I have been eyeing cubists and futurists recently (even went to a gallery with some of Picasso's earlier works) but it's nothing too substantial as of rn

visual art, thematically:

most of what I draw is characters & fanart so. yeah .

however one thing I've been enjoying recently is redrawing paintings or old photos. usually replacing the ppl in them with my fave old man yaoi. maybe it's cringe but they are a very "love in every time" sort of couple to me so :shrug:

literary art, stylistically:

positivist writing, particularly Lalka by Bolesław Prus. perhaps it's because I consider myself academically inclined, perhaps it's because naturalistic descriptions pander to my Biology Autism, perhaps it's bc of smth else idk

impressionism except not really bc im autistic and thus sensory descriptions come to me naturally

Terry. Pratchett. comparisons in my fics are often snappy(tm) as all fuck because they're, well, Borderlands fics, and to me a Borderlands novel should be Discworld-like. also because Discworld itself slaps

the work of Alexis Kennedy: the guy who wrote a lot of Fallen London, Cultist Simulator and also the Horizon Signal dlc for Stellaris. which is all shit im into. and good lird . its hard to describe you have to read this stuff for yourself

literary art, thematically:

again see the visual art section but largely my fics if they aren't self indulgent fluff are just. taken from my brain tee em because I cover topics or angles that the rest of the fandom wouldn't even think of

Alexis Kennedy again bc he writes gothic/cosmic horror. especially the latter. hoo doggy

other things that in general inspire me:

Darkest Dungeon. both the artstyle and the story have been big influences on me even tho I only played the game once and know everything abt it by watching youtube and bingereading wikis

the legacy of H. P. "Racist" Lovecraft. I guess. what can I say I am a sucker (haha) for those tentacles. except I do everything he ever did sexier and cooler and also he can go roll in his grave

legends, folklore, mythology and occultism. Hellenic of course since that's a big part of Borderlands symbolism but I ain't a coward I throw all that shit in there. slavic (creator bias lollll), norse, japanese, a bit of voudoun, biblical tradition, alchemy, tarot, et cetera. of course I usually don't talk about all the symbols that go into my Everything bc there's a crapton and everyone is entitled to their own interpretations but. yknow! and thats not even accounting for my love of assigning complex motifs to things

[lazyscience]

So just knocked out Castlevania: Nocturne.

Beyond the readmore there be spoilers. You have been warned. Opinions forward from someone who has just watched the series, not played the games.

I cannot WAIT to see Olrox and Alucard politely bitchfighting over who's the prettiest. Especially if Mizrak is involved somehow.

Frustratingly, my least favorite characters this time around are the Belmonts. They are just not that interesting compared to Annette, Edouard, Mizrak, Olrox, Tera or even Marie.

Juste Belmont - what the fuck, Netflix, that big dramatic Grandpa Belmont reveal just to have him completely disappear again? I mean, I suppose what must have happened is as soon as Richter's magic woke up and he made his big Martyrdom Declaration, Juste beat feet to Wallachia to wake up Alucard. He's the only one who would have known where to find him (I am going to be disappointed, Netflix, if this is not the case. Not because I particularly love him per se, but because it's terrible storytelling to show him then just ditch him like that)

Did I say the Belmonts were my least favorite? I meant Erzsebet. Horrible job on the villains this time around, Castlevania. Only Olrox is interesting (and it's questionable if you can even call him a villain based on what we've seen so far, his Belmont issues notwithstanding). Erzsebet, Drolta and Vaublanc are cartoon evil cutouts with no ambiguities or contradictions to make them interesting. Fuck, even Godbrand had more characterization as far as who he was and why he was that way than these two. The random Egyptian myth butchery is confusing af, what does Egypt have to do with Hungary?* And the Abbott is even more terminally simple than Hector for thinking he could bargain with these insane bitches. Maybe Tera will be corrupted enough to be both villainous AND have a personality? I live in hope.

Edouard - I am very interested to see how that ends up playing out. It's like a more refined version of the Isaac storyline from the first series, expanding on exactly what night creatures are and what they can become.

Olrox - I really want to see how his storyline plays out because he's both involved and a wild card.

Annette - She's amazing and I love everything about her.** I don't love that they're lampshading a Belmont romance from the game there because the show has a LOT of storytelling to go before they've built a relationship as good as Trevor and Sypha. Right now, they're BARELY comrades in arms. I don't want to see blushing or awkwardness, Richter hasn't earned it.

Maria - I like her, but WTF with the going to warn the abbott? He didn't earn that. and they didn't foreshadow anything about her and angst about a missing father figure. It's not THE worst choice, but. I feel like it's unlikely given his well established antagonist credentials, and even for an established idealist a VERY naive choice.

Overall, it's uneven but I'm intrigued. It'll be interesting to see what happens next, and hopefully the next season won't take 2 more years...

*i will give a tiny bit of credit that Sekhmet was the goddess of pharaonic authority and putting down rebellion. someone gets a gold star for that. if I thought someone actually did that on purpose.

**I am withholding my judgement on how they're handling the Yoruban gods/voudoun because that's a closed practice and I don't know enough to say what they're doing wrong. Although if they're doing the same horseshit job as they are with the Egyptian ones I wish they'd stop.

[zooterchet]

The O'Neills, by myth, are Irish Kings, Queens of the Wood, Pagan Princes, or Devil Voudoun Men.

We've taken all these roles, and more, but we could care less for them.

Power isn't what matters to us.

We serve the Papacy, since before its inception at St. Sylvester, the first Pope; back in the days of Pontifex, an office once served by Julius Caesar, before his adventuring days in the Roman Army in Gaul and Breton.

Wherever there's an injustice, against the disadvantaged, we appear, to assist others, by sharing their lot.

We don't' care about rich or poor, black or white; only "gay", a bully, existing outside of law; law being economics, the common good.