3/24/2024 0 Comments Saint lazarus vs papa legba![]() ![]() This ultimate one great God is distant and does not really interact with his Creation, so if one wants intereaction and assistance, one must turn to the saints and angels… the spirits under Bondje, the Loa (Iwa). ![]() ![]() Bondje is taken from the french Bon Dieu, or Good God. In Vodou, there is one father God, Bondje, above all else. This was just like the Loa spirits and many saints became stand ins for African Loa. For instance, Catholics saints each had particular attributes and were prayed to in hopes they’d intervene. The slaves captured and sent across the sea pooled together their religous knowledge, gods, spirits and ritual to create Vodou.Īs Catholicism was forced onto the slaves, numerous similarities were found between Christianity and their ancient African heritage, and these were combined. Vodou is an African religion that is actually a hodgpodge of West and Central African religious worship interlaced with Catholicism. (This includes steampunk itself, the weimar era, etc.) Although it’s the drumming that interests me the most, educating myself in all apsects of the various tangents that pop up in writing this show has been a huge joy and the main purpose of this blog. I assure you, 90% of my posts here are on topics i knew nothing about prior to writing the show and blog. As long as we’re using aspects of Haitian Vodou and drumming for inspiration on a music and plot idea, we might as well do some research and learn some stuff. ![]()
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