I am interested in connecting with an ougan or mambo in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area for spiritual cleansing and to determine which lwa walks with me. I know there are plenty of other Vodouisants in Miami since there's a large Haitian community, but I don't know anyone personally. Does anyone know someone I can contact? submitted by /u/SpiritualDivide777 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

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A well known curator contacted me and Purchased Exclusive Rights for Original Non AI Generated artwork for a Calendar (Merchandise etc) Exhibiting Hindu Imagery used in African and Diasporic Traditions with emphasis on Mami Wata Complex and other water spirits. Very Excited submitted by /u/Sikhdiviner [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

My Pai de Santo in Bahia made me This Horned brass Dan bracelet for the Vodun of my Ese (Se). submitted by /u/Sikhdiviner [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

It’s always interesting to find work you did fresh out of kanzo asogwe in Florida years later on some Manbo/Author’s Patreon. I was more eager to share back then. It’s normal to learn, grow, evolve, aesthetics change (at least I did) and yet people use my old stuff to get clients and teach. Interesting submitted by /u/Sikhdiviner [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Bossou is a often overlooked and under spoken about, whose symbolic depiction often overwrites its internal meaning. Bossou - from the name Tegbossou -A king of Dahomey, whose father Akbadja, is memorialized in the name Kadja as is found in the facet of Bossou called Kadja Bossou. Akbadja holds the fame of being the opener of the beginning of the slave trade, across the Atlantic Ocean to the new European holdings on stolen land. But who is Bossou? What is Bossou? To understand this we must first understand what is Kingship in Dahomey. Firstly the Kings of Dahomey were said to have descended f ..read more

Its often regurgitated that Oungan/Houngan root is found in the kikongo word “Ganga” meaning healer, this word is seen in Haiti and the D.R , I have seen the etymology that I put forth here as well. It seems to be that the origin of the term houngan/Oungan comes from hounnongan, from the Gbe Family of languages including Fon, Ewe, Adja, and others that would have impacted Dahomey, and thus impacted Vodou as practiced in Haiti. The word hounnongan means chief priest. Or a priest who has a shrine or maintains the shrine within the home/familial compound also looking at the Gbe family of languag ..read more

some of these ideas spring from my personal studies and Benjamin Hebblethwaite's "Historical Linguistic Dimensions of Spirit Migration in Haitian Vodou" it's not gospel, and so I'd really like some opinions, thoughts and ideas. There are a lot of manifestations of Papa Loko, many of them are from a lesser discussed form of syncretization, that being intercultural adaptation, Rada to Petwo, Ibo, Nago, Etc, as for many of these ethnic groups it was perhaps not the first time, of cultural diffusion, but for sure was a time of more direct cultural melding, as well as deeper and less surface level ..read more

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