Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : DJAB DJAB Although the word “djab” is derived from the French word “diable” (devil), djabs are personal spirits that belong to a specific person and not akin to the devil in the Christian sense of the word. Often the relationship between the djab and the person is in the form of a magickal [...]
SOURCE : Zombie – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being controlled as workers by a powerful sorcerer. Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of [...]
SOURCE : Djabs – 21 Division – tribe.net I don´t really know how you identify djabs, because that´s a name used for strong loas, that represent elemental forces of nature very, very strong, like thunderbolt, lighning, fierce, earthquakes, storms, and things like that. So they are not usually seen as “good loas” because the havoc [...]
SOURCE : Gnawa – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Many modern Western scholars see parallels between African American music such as the blues, that is rooted in Black American slave songs, and Gnawa music as well as Sufi tariqa. This influence also resonates from other spiritual sub-Saharan black groups such as the Bori in Nigeria, the [...]
SOURCE : African Religions Attracting Americans Philadelphia – Voodoo, Santeria and other religions with African roots are drawing followers in the United States among immigrants and black Americans interested in their ancestry, their leaders say. But their practice can result in clashes with neighbors and police over rituals such as animal sacrifices and sacred drumming [...]
SOURCE : Bloodsuckers and Burning Love, Part 5 « Papers Falling from an Attic Window in the center of this packet a lock of hair was found. Hair, nail clippings, and other parts of the body are often included in magical operations, the most famous of which is the misnamed “voodoo doll.” (The most distinguished [...]
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SOURCE : The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Woman arrested at airport with human skull in her carry-on Martinez said that in Vodou, it is common for practitioners to put a human skull on an altar in the home dedicated to spirits of the dead known as gede. The spirits contained in that skull are [...]
SOURCE : Voodoo Today, there are two virtually unrelated forms of the religion: the actual religion, Vodun practiced in Benin, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Haiti, Togo and various centers in the US – largely where Haitian refuges have settled. an evil, imaginary religion, which we will call Voodoo. It has been created for Hollywood movies, complete [...]
SOURCE : Vodou, voodoo, and western cultural anxieties rather than regarding the Voodoo Construct as deliberate denigration, distortion and/or demonisation of a particular religious tradition I argue instead that it owes it’s longevity and ubiquity to a range of deep-seated anxieties which are peculiar to western culture. These psycho-social anxieties are concerned precisely with epistemology [...]
