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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]
Mama Lola became a public face of Haitian Vodou in New Orleans through additional relationships Voodoo Authentica had cultivated and sustained over the years. [73] For example, Mama Lola presided over services to the lwa, sacred singing, and a panel on the connections between Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo with manbos from New York and ...
Haitian Vodou [a] (/ ˈ v oʊ d uː /) is an African diasporic religion that developed in Haiti between the 16th and 19th centuries. It arose through a process of syncretism between several traditional religions of West and Central Africa and Roman Catholicism. There is no central authority in control of the religion and much diversity exists ...
Houngan (Vodou Priest), Sèvitè (servant) Sèvitè Jean-Daniel Lafontant is a Houngan or Haitian Vodou priest and guardian of Temple Na-Ri-VéH 777 . In addition to his Vodou practice, he has also worked in marketing, nonprofits, and education, and has been one of the leading public voices for Haitian Vodou in United States media.
“(Vodou) seems dark because people don’t understand it. But at some point, all religions were dark until someone said that they weren’t.”
Fabre-Jeune is the first African American to become bishop of Charleston and the first Haitian-American to head a diocese. Since becoming a priest with the Scalabrinians in 1986, Fabre-Jeune has worked in Florida and Georgia, the Dominican Republic, and briefly at a refugee camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
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 ...
During the closing decades of the 20th century, attempts were made to revive Louisiana Voodoo, often by individuals drawing heavily on Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santería in doing so. [98] Among those drawing on both Vodou lwa and Santería oricha to create a new Voodoo was the African American Miriam Chamani , who established the Voodoo ...