Saturday March 15th, 2008
This week Whitley Strieber takes us on a fascinating adventure into the unknown realm of Vodou. We are guided by Kenaz Filan, an initiate of the Societe la Belle Venus and the author of the Haitian Vodou Handbook, who explains Vodou ritual and tells us about his experiences with the Vodou lwa, or spirits honored in Haitain practice. He also discusses the controversial relationship between Catholicism and Vodou, and the current state of Vodou practice in Haiti and elsewhere. Then Linda Howe updates us on another fascinating reality: water on Mars.
Just noting.
Also see: Haitian art; Zombie Quiz; Ontological catfights between bawdy Lwas and fat Baptists; Brief History of Voodoo; Brief History of Marie Laveau.
Got a buddy that runs with a Shiva sect that's been having some unhappy run-ins with Voodouns in the last few years... But Papa Legba has always been kind to me, and I still say Jah Respeck! to the old man, me.
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