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Male priests are referred to as an oungan, alternatively spelled houngan or hungan, [216] or a prèt Vodou ("Vodou priest"). [217] Priestesses are termed manbo, alternatively spelled mambo. [218] Oungan numerically dominate in rural Haiti, while there is a more equitable balance of priests and priestesses in urban areas. [219]
Oungan (also written as houngan) is the term for a male priest in Haitian Vodou (a female priest is known as a mambo). [1] The term is derived from Gbe languages (Fon, Ewe, Adja, Phla, Gen, Maxi and Gun). The word hounnongan means chief priest. Hounnongan or oungans are also known as makandals. [2]
A manbo (also written as mambo) is a priestess (as opposed to a oungan, a male priest) in the Haitian Vodou religion. [1] [2] Haitian Vodou's conceptions of priesthood stem from the religious traditions of enslaved people from Dahomey, in what is today Benin. [3]
Practitioners and adherents of Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, and West African Vodun. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. A.
A Vodun priest in Benin photographed in 2018. Vodún is a religion. [1] The anthropologist Timothy R. Landry noted that, although the term Vodún is commonly used, a more accurate name for the religion was vodúnsínsen, meaning "spirit worship". [2]
An oungan (priest) or manbo (priestess) will also organize an annual feast for their congregation in which animal sacrifices to various lwa will be made. [56] The choice of food and drink offered varies depending on the lwa in question, with different lwa believed to favour different foodstuffs. [ 57 ]
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's voodoo leaders have trained priests of the Afro Caribbean religion to concoct a secret remedy for the novel coronavirus and to prepare the sacred initiation ...
Baron Samedi is the leader of the Gede, loa with particular links to magic, ancestor worship and death. [6] These lesser spirits are dressed like The Baron and are as rude and crude but not nearly as charming as their master.