12 posts tagged vodou
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(Pagan) News of Note
http://www.wildhunt.org/ 2008/ 05/ pagan-news-of-note_09.htmlMy semi-regular round-up of articles, essays, and opinions of note for discerning Pagans and Heathens. DVD Talk reviews the documentary series "Women and Spirituality", which was recently released in the DVD format. "There's little doubt that goddess worship has actually picked up significant cultural steam since the original release of these pieces close to 20 years ago.
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Purification by Fire Using the Hebrew Letter Shin
http://www.dadamancer.com/ site/ 2008-05-06/ purification-by-fire-using-the-hebr…Purification by Fire Using the Hebrew Letter Shin May 6th, 2008 | Demian Clearing a blocked charka can be a complex and laborious practice. Clearing long term blocks often requires long periods of self-analysis, willed change and the revealing and letting go of suppressed emotions.
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Eric Vodou / The Murder House Sleep Dictations
http://www.weblog.unblinding.com/ ?p=5Excerpt from “The Murder House Sleep Dictations”, debut EP by Eric Vodou, dark half and alter-ego of Toby Morgan. Released May 30th 2008 as a prelude to the album “Elder Jackal Offspring”. Both will be available for download/mail-order from Unblinding.
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Chapter 5
http://atmanthepsychicvampire.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 04/ 12/ chapter-5/Johann “Adam” Lemp was born in 1798 in Germany. He arrived in the United States in 1836 and settled in St. Louis in 1838, opening a grocery store in downtown St. Louis. Besides typical groceries, Lemp also made his own beer, and by 1840 he focused solely on the brewing and sale of the beer, forming a company he named Western Brewery.
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Chapter 4
http://atmanthepsychicvampire.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 04/ 11/ chapter-4/The lullaby rocking of the train soothed Atman, but he could not sleep. He had not said good-bye to his father. Neither of them had told their families they were leaving. Atman knew they would easily be adopted into P.T.’s Traveling Circus. Phineas would be happy to hear he had accumulated two performers from his competition.
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Chapter 3
http://atmanthepsychicvampire.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 04/ 11/ chapter-3/Sitting in the car outside the mansion, Atman fingered the talisman, safely tucked under his ascot around his neck. His eyes were clinched shut. He would not let his eyes take him to those days spent with Phillipe. His mind constantly conjured up thoughts of Phillipe, but he only wanted to relive them as a memory in his head.
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Capturing the Living Gods
http://www.wildhunt.org/ 2008/ 04/ capturing-living-gods.htmlThe Independent Weekly profiles a new book by Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh entitled "Crossing the Water: A Photographic Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World". The two photographer's "visual ethnography" follows Santiago Castaneda Vera, a veteran practitioner of several strains of African diasporic religion, through several rites and ceremonies.
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Haitian Vodou's Supreme Chief
http://www.wildhunt.org/ 2008/ 04/ haitian-vodous-supreme-chief.htmlIf one looks at the practice of Haitian Vodou, you can't separate the political unrest and desperate poverty from the ancestral faith of the island. So it is in this light that we must consider the news that a coalition of houngans (priests) have named Max Beauvoir the "supreme master" of Haitian Vodou.
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Native Representatives Invited for Historic Haitian Ceremony
http://uctp.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 03/ native-representatives-invited-for.htmlHaiti - In an historic first since the earliest European trafficking of Africans to the Western Hemisphere for enslavement, the African derived Indigenous religions in Haiti have been united under one Spiritual leader.
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Yoruba Sacred Texts
http://www.wildhunt.org/ 2008/ 01/ yoruba-sacred-texts.htmlIn a recent post I mentioned that two copies of a rare book about the Yoruba religion were donated to Florida International University. "The text, The Book of Diagnosis in Ifa Divination, was drawn from the religion's oral tradition and first published in the 1940s.
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