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In English, Vodou's practitioners are termed Vodouists; [46] in French and Haitian Creole, they are called Vodouisants [47] or Vodouyizan. [48] Another term for adherents is sèvitè (serviteurs, "devotees"), [49] reflecting their self-description as people who sèvi lwa ("serve the lwa "), the supernatural beings that play a central role in Vodou.
Over the centuries, Vodou was shaped into the wide-reaching and unique religion that it is today. [ 12 ] Some practices of Haitian Vodou are a result of the syncretism that occurred when the French colonizers forcibly converted West African slaves in the West Indies colonies to Christianity.
Slave owners threatened to baptize the slaves if they did not stop worshiping Vodou. Due to these threats, slaves practiced Vodou in private while incorporating Catholic traditions into them. They incorporated hymns and prayers, which are still seen in modern day Vodou. [1] Vodou became "Voodoo" once it was brought to New Orleans' French Quarter.
“(Vodou) seems dark because people don’t understand it. But at some point, all religions were dark until someone said that they weren’t.” KC’s growing Vodou community emerges from ...
A common syncretic religion is Vodou, which combined the Yoruba religion of enslaved Africans with Catholicism and some Native American strands; it shows similarities, and shares many deity-saints, with Cuban Santería and Brazilian Candomblé. The constitution of Haiti establishes the freedom of religion and does not establish a state religion ...
In Haiti, this took the form of Haitian Vodou. [2] This religion was primarily influenced by the traditional religions of the Fon and Bakongo peoples, [3] but also absorbed the iconography of European-derived traditions such as Roman Catholicism and Freemasonry. [4] These elements combined into the form of Vodou around the mid-18th century. [5]
Haitian mythology consists of many folklore stories from different time periods, involving sacred dance and deities, all the way to Vodou.Haitian Vodou is a syncretic mixture of Roman Catholic rituals developed during the French colonial period, based on traditional African beliefs, with roots in Dahomey, Kongo and Yoruba traditions, and folkloric influence from the indigenous Taino peoples of ...
African diaspora religions, a list of related religions sometimes called Vodou/Voodoo Candomblé Jejé, also known as Brazilian Vodum, one of the major branches (nations) of Candomblé Tambor de Mina, a syncretic religion that developed in northern Brazil; Dominican Vudú, a syncretic religion that developed in the Spanish Empire