Monday, 06. June 2005
Voodoo - Vodou - Vodun

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General background:

Vodun (a.k.a. Vodoun, Voudou, Voodoo, Sevi Lwa) is commonly called Voodoo by the public. The name is traceable to an African word for "spirit". Vodun's can be directly traced to the West African Yoruba people who lived in 18th and 19th century Dahomey. Its roots may go back 6,000 years in Africa. That country occupied parts of today's Togo, Benin and Nigeria. Slaves brought their religion with them when they were forcibly shipped to Haiti and other islands in the West Indies.

An introduction to Voudun by ReligiousTolerance (English)


A historical view: Calling on the Gods - The Story of Haitian Vodou

These Vodou Lessons will teach you about Vodou, how the religion is structured, it's history, it's spiritual entities, and what it means to Vodou believers. You will learn how to begin your own Vodou practice and perform a ceremony of ancestor reverence.

Vodou Lessons by Mambo Racine Sans Bout. (English)

Vodoun is the heritage of the ancient africans nations that were exiled in the new world. Its ways have been born throughout the darkest times by our forefathers in order to teach us how to live today and tomorrow.
Vodoun is more than one thing, it is medecine, justice, police, it is art, dance, music as well as religious ritual. It is the common ground upon which we, the children of the african new world diaspora, stand together.

Haitian Vodoun Culture by Estelle Manuel. Vevers, langaj. With samples of drum rhythms, and a catalogue of over 2000 songs. (English)

A presentation of the Vodoun Medecine: The Temple of Yehwe by Max-G. Beauvoir (English)

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At the outset, it must be stated that, in spite of the grievous oversight by many Western historians, & scholars etc., in mistakenly crediting Vodoun's development to Haiti, Vodoun is first, foremost and at its cosmological core, an ancestral religion that some anthropologists have dated to be at least 10,000 years old.
All of the Vodoun practiced in the New World have their ancestral and spiritual roots in Dahomey, including Haitian Vodou, (which [Haiti] has only been an independant republic since 1804). Dahomean Vodoun is the oldest of these Vodoun religions, and as it is today,was a fully developed and complex system of ritual, theology and worhsip long before it arrived in the New World.

Priestess Mamaissii Vivian Odelelasi Dansi Hounon - A vast website about Dahomean (West African) Vodoun.

Voodoo ist primär eine Religion. Aber Voodoo beinhaltet mehr mystische und magische Bestandteile, als die meisten Religionen.
Allerdings sind im Voodoo, im Gegensatz zu anderen Religionen, die Götter zum anfassen. Dies bedeutet aber nicht, daß die Götter über eine fixe Form oder Gestalt verfügen. Sie ergreifen von Freiwilligen Besitz.
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Der Skeptiker möge nun sagen, daß dies nur eine Entrückung während eines Trancezustandes ist. Dem widerspricht allerdings, daß 2 verschiedene Menschen, die sich niemals im Leben begegnet sind oder dies werden, noch sich in irgendeiner Art kennen, das selbe Wissen teilen. Sprich man kann mit dem Einen, an einem Ende Haitis ein Gespräch beginnen, und mit dem Anderen, am anderen Ende Haitis, dieses Gespräch fortsetzen.

Papa Nemo´s Voodoo-Seite (German)

Auch wenn die Webseite "lustig" heisst - der Inhalt ist TOP!

Informieren Sie sich über Anwendung und Hintergründe magischer Traditionen. Nutzen Sie das überlieferte Wissen, denn es wird seit vielen Generationen und in vielen Kulturen erfolgreich angewendet! Voodoo.de (German)
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