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	Voodoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based spiritist-animist religious tradition.
		Besides Benin, African Vodun and its descendant practices may be found in the Togo, Ghana, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, Haiti and Cape Verde.
		As already stated, Vodun is a theistic and magical form of animism that developed among West African tribes predating historical times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vodun (2713 words)

	VodunHistory
		Vodun's roots go back to the Ewe, Fon, Mina and several other groups who are all descendants of the Adja-Tado region (predecessor to the 18th and 19th century Dahomey).
		Vodun, although still demonized by the West, continued to be the dominant religion in Haiti.
		Vodun was formally recognized by the Government of Benin in 1996.
	www.nguni.com /culture/Vodunhist.html (700 words)

	Vodun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vodun (aka Vodoun, Voudou, Voodoo, Sevi Lwa) is a syncretist religion that originates in West Africa with the Fon and Yoruba people.
		A male Vodun priest is called a houngan (alternate spellings: hougan, hungan); a female one is a mambo.
		What is often referred to as Voodoo cult is based on Vodun, but it is uncertain how much of the "dark magic" (including zombies and voodoo dolls) is based on Christian propaganda during colonial times, on movies and stories, and how much of it is actually practised by the "priests".
	www.theezine.net /v/vodun.html (598 words)

	MSN Encarta - Voodoo
		Vodun or Vodou, religion of Haiti, also practiced in Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil, and the southern United States, especially Louisiana.
		Vodun is commonly called voodoo, a term that carries derogatory and inaccurate associations, according to many scholars today.
		The rituals of Vodun are often led by a priest, called a houngan, or a priestess, called a mambo.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761552787 (223 words)

	Voodoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based Theist-Animist religious tradition.
		Besides Benin, African Vodun and its descendent practices may be found in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, Ghana, Haiti and Togo.
		Totalitarian regimes in West Africa tried to suppress Vodun as well as other forms of religiosity, but today they are flourishing again and Vodun is practised by over 30 million people in the area.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Voodoo (2932 words)

	African Vodun
		Vodun is only one of the African traditional religions that accompanied Africa's enslaved throughout the Diaspora where numerous sects of Vodun continue to thrive.
		The ritual conquering of death in initiation is the seed of empowerment meticulously planted in the sacred terrain of Vodun.
		Vodun spirituality is concerned with the development of the internal aspect of the self in preparation for evolution.
	www.africanvodun.com /pages/essence.html (610 words)

	The Temple Of Mirrors
		Vodun's can be directly traced to the West African Yoruba people who lived in 18th and 19th century Dahomey.
		Vodun was again suppressed during the Marxist regime.
		Vodun was formally recognized as Benin's official religion in 1996-FEB. It is also followed by most of the adults in Haiti.
	groups.msn.com /TheTempleOfMirrors/vodunvoodoo.msnw (1016 words)

	Vodun
		Vodun's roots go back to the West African Yoruba people who lived in 18th and 19th century Dahomey.
		Followers of Vodun believe that each person has a soul which is composed of two parts: a gros bon ange or "big guardian angel", and a ti bon ange or "little guardian angel".
		Rituals are held to celebrate lucky events, to attempt to escape a run of bad fortune, to celebrate a seasonal day of celebration associated with a Loa, for healing, at birth, marriage and death.
	www.mindspring.com /~cronemother/Vodun.html (863 words)

	TRADITIONAL RELIGION IN AFRICA: The Vodun phenomenon in Benin
		Ethnic Vodun(s): Akovodun (Agasu for the Houégbajavi of Abomey).
		By identifying Vodun as an idolatrous fetishism or a superstitious animism, certain ethnologists came to the conclusion that the Vodun cult is the perfect illustration of polytheism.
		The Vodun rules establish a life of solidarity among these individuals: quarrels between followers of the same Vodun are generally settled at the convent or at the Vodunun’s house.
	www.afrikaworld.net /afrel/zinzindohoue.htm (7471 words)

	Big Bad Voodoo Mommy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vodun is actually the official religion of the country of Benin.
		Vodun is based on a belief system that includes multiple gods and spirits, known collectively as the "Loa." The chief god of Vodun is Olorun, who is very mysterious and never takes part in worldly affairs.
		Vodun ceremonies and rituals are presided over by a Vodun priest, who can be male ("houngan") or female ("mambo").
	www.kinmoku.net /pops/harmony/halloween/voodoo.html (971 words)

	FCA - Foundation for Contemporary Art - Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The contemporary Vodun arts of the city of Ouidah in the Republic of Benin are a testament to the strength and flexibility of a belief system that is perpetually inventing, reinventing, and modifying itself.
		Around the corner and past a shrine to Gu, the Vodun spirit of iron, warfare, and technology, located in the middle of the main courtyard, is another of the artist's paintings, this one representing the Supreme Chief in his ancestral vodun setting, the sea (hou).
		Vodun practitioners, however, are very open to syncretism, and claim that Beninese Catholics and Muslims blend their foreign faiths with Vodun.
	www.fcaghana.org /index.php?page=articles&link=article7 (8276 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: African Vodun : Art, Psychology, and Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Her thorough analysis begins with an extended discussion of the philosophy of vodun that includes an intriguing set of possible etymologies of the word itself.
		The upshot is that vodun teaches "patience, calmness, respect, and order"--acceptance, that is, of what life brings--but it is not fatalistic.
		Vodun sculptures fall into two categories: the bochio, which are figurative, and the bo, which are objects, sometimes called fetishes or gris-gris.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226058581?v=glance (875 words)

	The mysteries of Vodun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vodun is a religion that is prevalent in different parts of the world.
		In other words, vodun and voodoo is the same thing, if you don’t mix it up with the “Hollywood-voodoo”.
		centres in vodun ceremonies are sacrifices of animals, and this is an other thing that characterizes the voudon religion.
	www.nesodden.vgs.no /Prosjekter/south_africa/vodun.htm (695 words)

	Voodoo
		It described Vodun as a profoundly evil religion, and included lurid descriptions of human sacrifice, cannibalism, etc., some of which had been extracted from Vodun priests by torture.
		Followers of Vodun believe that each person has a met tet (master of the head) which corresponds to a Christian's patron saint.
		A Web page titled "Vodun Culture" has a glossary of Vodun terms, descriptions of songs and dances, and a list of Vodun loa with their corresponding duties, colors and symbols.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Voodoo/voodoo.htm (1624 words)

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		Vodun or Sevi Lwa is commonly called Voodoo or Voudou by the public.
		Vodun was formally recognized by the Government of Benin in 1996-FEB. It is also followed by most of the adults in Haiti.
		Vodun, like Christianity, is a religion of many sects.
	www.geocities.com /SouthBeach/Lights/5682/vodunadd.html (1611 words)

	PSY 201 Health Psychology Spring 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During this time period there were a number of voodoo induced slave revolts in Haiti and many French slave owners were forced to flee to the southern United States with their slaves in what is now New Orleans.
		The followers of Vodun perform many rituals to gain favor with their gods to gain favors in love, money, and health.
		These beliefs of Vodun and its spells are based firmly in society through the influence of Christianity on the African slaves.
	www.augsburg.edu /psych/vml/vodoun.html (1454 words)

	WEBSITE EVALUATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vodun, by contrast, is the primary religion of the island and has roots in several other Caribbean nations such as Benin and the Dominican Republic.
		The word "vodun" is traced from an African word for "spirit." Vodun weaves together different strands of Roman Catholicism, Dahomey, Yoruba and Kongoese religious beliefs.
		Vodun consists of many elaborate ceremonies and rituals, several of which involve blood sacrifice.
	dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu /diaspora/caribe.html (1005 words)

	VODUN: Misconceptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The evil eye or sticking needles in dolls, those are among the images that we Westerners commonly associate with Vodun, or Voodoo, as it is sometimes known, a longtime subject of low-grade horror films and campfire tales.
		There was also a long-standing tradition in America of making illegal the practice of African ceremonies because they were viewed as somewhat analogous, let's say, to sorcery: a type of religion which only had a negative part.
		Vodun at its base is as much a philosophy as a religion which is grounded on this idea of good acts, of respect, of calmness in the face of danger.
	www.pulseplanet.com /archive/Oct98/1739.html (285 words)

	Vodun - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		nl:Voodoo de:Voodoo Vodun (aka Vodoun, Voudou, Vodou, Voodoo, Sevi Lwa) is an animist, or nature-based religion that originated in West Africa with the Fon and Yoruba people.
		The survival of the belief system in the New World is remarkable, although the traditions have changed with time.
		Some might be uncertain how much of the "dark magic" (including zombies and voodoo dolls) is based on Christian propaganda during the colonial era, on Hollywood movies and folk stories, and how much of it is actually practised by the "priests".
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Vodou (654 words)

	African Arts: Contemporary Vodun arts of Ouidah, Benin
		In the constant negotiation between ideologies that are old and new, local and distant, the artificial boundaries between "traditional" and "contemporary" Vodun arts are dissolved, merged, and transcended.
		Based on the premise of a reunion of Africa and the African Diaspora through the commonalities of Vodun and Vodun-derived religious systems, this international collaboration was successful not merely in authenticating Benin's new political and religious freedom but in demonstrating it at a global level.
		At the beginning of the festival, Vodun spirits were propitiated to ensure its success, as they are for almost every endeavor in Ouidah.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0438/is_4_34/ai_85031229 (1336 words)

	haitianvodou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The vodun are defined variously as forces which act as intermediaries between the omnipotent god above everything and human beings, as any manifestation of power which cannot be explained, as mysterious phenomena, as natural powers existing in the earth and in nature.
		Human death is associated with the vodun, and objects (art works) associated with ancestors are likewise associated with the vodun (it becomes a place where the vodun can be contacted).
		The vodun who are more specifically identified as gods are visualized in human form, with human qualities-good and bad; they are associated with occupations and they are given food and drink.
	www.ux1.eiu.edu /~cfrb/haitianvodou.htm (4352 words)

	Vodun - VODUN: Misconceptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Religions related to Vodun are: Candomble, Lucumi, Macumba, and Yoruba) Vodun (aka Vodoun, Voudou, Voodoo, Sevi Lwa) is commonly called Voodoo by the
		in Vodun between the gods, the Earth and the materials of everyday life.
		We're listening to the drums and singing of a West African Vodun ceremony.
	publicwindow.com /pw/vodun.html (215 words)

	Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: African: Diasporic: Vodou, Vodun, Voodoo
		Sevi Lwa is also called Vodun, Voodoo, Woodoo, Voudou, or Budu -- names that come from an African word for "spirit." Vodun's diaspora roots go back to the West African people who brought their religion with them when they were forcibly enslaved in Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, and other islands in the West Indies.
		The traditional religion of Vodun (Voodoo) in Haiti · cached · Collection of scholarly and informative documents, by various authors, on the history and practice of Vodun (Voodoo) in Haiti; part of an even larger site on Haitian history in general.
		The Vodou Forum · The Vodou Forum is a teaching forum for the discussion of Vodou, herbal magic and healing, and Makaya, Santeria/Lucumi, Palo, Jamaican obeah, etc. Teaching units focus on various "lwa", or spiritual entities, and various concepts in Vodou practice.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=473875 (1382 words)

	VODUN (a.k.a. Voodoo)
		Baron Samedi: guardian of the grave: serpent spirit Erinle: spirit of the forests: female spirit of loveMawu Lisa: spirit of creationOgou Balanjo: spirit of healing Ogun (or Ogu Bodagris): spirit of war Osun: spirit of healing streamsSango (or Shango): spirit of stormsYemanja: female spirit of waters Zaka (or Oko): spirit of agriculture
		There are a number of points of similarity between Roman Catholicism and Vodun: both believe in a supreme being the Loa resemble Christian Saints, in that they were once people who led exceptional lives, and are usually given a single responsibility or special attribute.
		Both believe in an afterlife, both have as the centerpoint of their ceremony a ritual sacrifice and consumption of flesh and blood, both believe in the existence of invisible evil spirits or demons, followers of Vodun believe that each person has a met tet (master of the head) which corresponds to a Christian's patron saint.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/spamedham/voodoo.htm (1188 words)

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