Merry Meet To All,
Let me start by giving a short introduction about Voodoo.
What is Voodoo, Voudou, Vodu, Vodun?
The Magick performed based on an Ancient Religion from a distant
land. What we today call Voodoo and think of as mere superstition
was actually an animist religion called Vodu or Voudou, originating
in West Africa with the Yoruba tribe and on the Caribbean island
Saint Domingue. It had arrived in New Orleans during the French
colonial period with the slave trade. In 1718, Nouvelle Orleans was
founded by the Quebecois explorer Bienville, and from those early
days this belief in spirits and the power of nature had been the
strength of the enslaved. Eventually, even the Europeans and the
Creoles in New Orleans (natives of European origin, French and
Spanish) came to fear Voodoo. The leaders in Voodoo were the male
doctors (like Dr. John) and the female queens(like Marie Laveau)
who eventually reigned supreme in New Orleans.
All Voodoo is said to have roots in the West African spirit-based,
snake-worshiping, animist faith called "Vodu" (possibly from the
Dahomey tribe); Vodu was a term which meant "the gods." Animism was
a belief in spirits who lived in nature and resided in natural
objects, such as in trees.
Blessed Be,
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