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	Voudoun
		Voudoun (known by its slang name of voodoo or hoodoo) took the basic cosmology of its African roots and added a lot of "ways to stick it to the Man," a goal for which it proved extraordinarily effective.
		Voudoun also traveled with the French slave force to New Orleans, but the (slightly) less repressive conditions there allowed the practice to integrate more smoothly with the society, thus bypassing that particular revolution (in favor of a civil war later).
		Voudoun has a complex cosmology that deals with the workings of the universe, but for some reason, people are always more interested in the sticking pins in dolls part.
	www.rotten.com /library/religion/voudoun (1497 words)

	Voodoo Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		The sacred rattle of Voudoun, its typical components being a calabash and snake vertebrae.
		One of the revered Serpent-Deities of Rada Voudoun, who represent the sky powers; the rainbow is her symbol, and as wife of Damballah she shares his function as cosmic protector and giver of blessing.
		A fully initiated priest of Voudoun, one who has "received the asson." The basis of this title is the African "Nganga," a chief priest; it is prefixed with the Fon word "Houn," meaning spirit.
	www.folkart.com /voodooshop/glossary.htm (2974 words)

	Voodoo Authentica
		An historic city of Nigeria: the spiritual destination to which the Voudoun drums are consigned for the renewal of their energies.
		A Voudoun diety: that is, the power of a divine archetype working through a congenial personality built up for it by human worship and invocation in Voudoun.
		A favorite Voudoun dance; the name means "supplication." The dance is characterized by the hands being placed on knees or thighs, and has several main variations: Yanvalou debut (upright), Yanvalou dos bas (crouching), Yanvalou z'epaules (a "shoulder dance"), etc.
	www.voodooshop.com /voodoo/glossary.html (3061 words)

	Isis Metaphysical Books Article: An Introduction Into Voodoo
		Voudoun is a syncrestic religion, a blend of many African religions which came together in the New World when their practitioners were forcibly migrated here as part of the slave trade.
		Voudoun is one of the most politically visible earth religions.
		Voudoun is currently practiced in the Caribbean, and in major cities and small towns throughout the United States.
	www.isisbooks.com /voodoo.asp (1155 words)

	The Ghost in the Machine
		Eventually, we come to realize that after the fracturing of the AI Wintermute, who tried to unite the Matrix, the unified being split into several entities which took on the character of the various Haitian loa, for reasons that are never made clear.
		It may be simply more the case that, like the ancient Druids, Voudoun practicioners learn much of their herbal and healing wisdom orally, and in a heightened level of awareness and memory functioing brought about through various ASC techniques.
		Voudoun is a religion that deals intimately with consciousness.
	www.voidspace.org.uk /cyberpunk/gibson_voodoo.shtml (2923 words)

	Operation Sandman/Briefing Update
		Voudoun (voudun, vodun, voodoo) is a syncretic belief system combining West African spiritualism with elements of Roman Catholocism.
		Voudoun can also be found extensively in Jamaica and, in a distinct pattern called Santeria, in Brazil; it is also prominent in American cities with large Haitian, Jamaican, and Afro-Brazilian populations, such as New York City and Miami.
		The essence of voudoun is interaction with spirits (loa), who are called upon for worship and to seek guidance and assistance.
	www.delta-green.com /opint/debriefing/sandman/info_1.htm (940 words)

	Voodoo and Voudoun - Pagan
		The religious practice known as Voudoun, and spelt alternately as Voodoo, Vodoun, and Vodun, has name roots in an ancient African Yoruban word for “spirit.” African people transplanted to the Caribbean in the 18th and 19th centuries brought their own religions beliefs with them.
		Many Voudoun altars have images of saints as part of their assembly or decor along with items like pictorial votive candles.
		In Voudoun ritual, the purpose is for the participant to make contact with the spirit energies, to gain their favor by offering gifts and making sacrifices.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art25544.asp (485 words)

	SCIFI.COM \| Exclusive Chats
		IyaTashia: GA IyaTashia: I began to study more about the African traditions and found out that most of the African traditions, particularly voudoun, candomble and santeria were enshrouded in religions that the african slaves were forced by their enslavers to practice.
		Voudoun emanated specifically from the Yoruba tribe, a tribe in which I was able to trace my ancestry back to.
		IyaTashia: Agwe is the sea Goddess in Voudoun, in Ifa she is Yemoja, in Candomble she is Iemanya, in Santeria, Yemaya, but again, this diety represents motherhood, marriage, childbirth, prosperity, sexuality and relationships.
	www.scifi.com /transcripts/2004/itashia3.2.html (2167 words)

	Maya Deren Films by Mystic Fire Video
		This revealing and stunningly photographed documentary, "Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti," is perhaps at the center of the Deren legend: the legend of Deren the Voodoo Priestess.
		It is a film that conveys, perhaps for the first time, the power and beauty of the Voudoun rites free of both the false fantasies of Hollywood and the desensualizing distance of ethnographers.
		It is a picture of Voudoun viewed by an artist, and one privileged to conduct a study of emotional and psychological perceptions on an intimate and subjective level.
	www.mysticfire.com /ntsc/archives/bios/NIDeren.html (1189 words)

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		Once there, Deren realized that in Voudoun culture dance and prayer were one and the same, and her focus shifted to the Haitian rituals.
		This film includes footage of both the secular and religious dances of the Congo and Yoruba cults and is an excellent introduction to the Voudoun religion of Haiti.
		The Voudoun ritual is re-created in the encounter between the ritual, the artist and the medium.
	www.lycos.com /info/maya-deren--haiti-deren.html (518 words)

	RITUAL OF ABANDONMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		When I was preparing to exhibit pieces from Ritual of Abandonment for the first time, I wanted to find an image that would represent a distillation of all the feelings that this work had come to represent for me. This image would become the icon for the series.
		"...Voudoun has given woman, in the figure of Erzulie, exclusive title to that which distinguishes humans from all other life forms: their capacity to conceive beyond reality, to desire beyond adequacy, to create beyond need.
		It has denied her emphasis as mother of life and of men in order to regard her (like Mary, with whom Erzulie is identified) as mother of man's myth of life--its meaning.
	www.art.net /Studios/Visual/Fenster/ritofab_Home/symbolism.html (267 words)

	Possession
		William Sargant gives an account of a Voudoun ceremony he witnessed in Haiti, where two girls became simultaneously possessed by Ghede, a loa who is known to be particularly sexually active: "They half stripped each other and one girl symbolically raped the other with a masculine type of pelvic approximation.
		It ended with the total emotional collapse of both participants." Sargant goes on to say that the group was somewhat amused by this episode, and that the girls, who were normally restrained and quiet, had no memory of what they had done.
		In contemporary magick, the vehicle for possession by a particular god tends to be chosen before the ritual proceeds, rather than, as in Voudoun, spontaneously ridden by the loa.
	www.chaosmatrix.org /library/chaos/texts/possess.html (3656 words)

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		The Ghost in the Machine: Haitian Voudoun and the Matrix William Gibson's Count Zero It would seem that there are no two things more distinct than the primal, mystic, organic world of Haitian Voudoun, and the detached, cool, mechanical world of the high-tech future.
		What it's about is getting things done." Eventually, we come to realize that after the fracturing of the AI Wintermute, who tried to unite the Matrix, the unified being split into several entities which took on the character of the various Haitian loa, for reasons that are never made clear.
		After all, this might be the best way for people to relate to them, to erect a 'technology of the sacred.' Count Zero shows a different path for the vector of technology - toward the 'Heart of Darkness' of Africa, the lunar continent, instead of into the 'Rising Sun' of Japan.
	www.eff.org /Net_culture/Cyberpunk/ghost_in_machine.paper (2797 words)

	VUDU,MAGIA VUDU,DICCIONARIO VUDU
		El traqueteo sagrado de Voudoun, sus componentes típicos que son un calabash y vértebras de la serpiente.
		Voudoun, que representa el cielo; el arco iris es su símbolo, y como esposa de Damballah ella comparte su función como protector y donante cósmicos de la bendición.
		Un sacerdote completamente iniciado de Voudoun, uno quién tiene "recibió el asson."la base de este título es" el Nganga africano,"un principal sacerdote; se prefija con la palabra "Houn de Fon,"alcohol del significado.
	www.angelfire.com /magic2/vudu/index2.html (1836 words)

	The Tulane University Lecture about Voodoo
		Voudoun is the tribal religion of Africa, but the name Voudoun is actually a banner heading under which resides an entire body of different belief systems.
		During a Voudoun ceremony, celebrants are possessed by the Loa.
		Voudoun temples are called hounfours, their priests houngan or bokors, their priestesses, Mamaloa.
	gabrielknight.bravehost.com /GK1_Documents_Lecture.html (643 words)

	Anagram of the Ideas
		A creative work was the sum of its parts where in assemblage something new was formed making it a "volatile whole", the foundation of Deren's film work until she arrived in Haiti.
		Deren's ethnographic contributions to the study of Haitian Voudoun include not only 20.000 feet of ceremony but recordings of rituals and folk music, a mythological study of the religion--"Divine Horsemen", articles, lectures and television and radio appearances.
		In field studies she noted the articulations of a mythical discipline which infused matter with spirit and in order to respect the "ceremonial logic" in representation, abandoned her "cinepoem".
	www.algonet.se /~mjsull/anagram.html (1402 words)

	Voudoun
		Men voudoun är mer än bara svart, eller ond, magi.
		I sin ursprungliga form fördes voudoun på 1500-talet till Haiti i Karibiska havet av afrikanska slavar.
		Liksom i många religioner med orientering mot det magiska är den centrala föreställningen inom voudoun att verkligheten är en sorts fasad bakom vilken andliga krafter av mycket större betydelse verkar.
	paranormal.se /topic/voudoun.html (381 words)

	Grey Lodge Occult Review :: Issue #17 :: Divine Horsemen ::
		One of the most frustrating setbacks of Deren's career was her failure to release the footage and she tried countless times to have it accepted for anthropological use--and denied because she was an outsider to the field.
		Focus is on the different loa, or gods and goddesses in Voudoun ceremony including Legba, Ogun, Ghede, Erzulie, Damballah and Azacca and Agwe--with animation of the particular vevers.
		Some use of corresponding movement is used such as Jacques and the baton twirlers and the pelvic movement of a woman possessed by Ghede with the pelvic movements of baton twirlers at Mardi-Gras.
	www.greylodge.org /occultreview/glor_017/divine_horsemen.htm (2671 words)

	Benin Guide - Places To Go - Benin, West Africa
		There is a really interesting Voudoun (voodoo) section with creepy dried animals, charms, snakes, etc. I've found the men there to be really friendly and interesting.
		It is known for it's resorts and its voudoun traditions.
		These are where voudoun practitioners are living and selling their services.
	www.bootsnall.com /articles/node/4620/print (1647 words)

	COV Community Site
		Upon accepting her power, Tee-do’s grandmother was believed to have transformed into the corporeal manifestation of the voudoun guardian of graves.
		With this blood in her veins, the entire village believed Tee-do had the ability to become the most powerful voudoun priestess ever known.
		Fearful that it would expose her voudoun roots, she desperately tied to avoid using this subtle but dangerous ability.
	www.cityofvillains.com /gameinfo/archetypes_mastermind.html (873 words)

	Chapter 16: The New Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		He called a secretary to attend him and dictated a decree forbidding the voudoun dances and all other African fetishes, practices and superstitions.
		But now the voudoun divided the island, inspired indolence and licentiousness in the workers and prevented the fls from civilizing themselves.
		He knew well enough the power of the voudoun on the imagination, but he was a Christian.
	www.towson.edu /~richard/chap16.html (2832 words)

	WLU Film & Video Collection - V0351 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		A journey into the fascinating world of the Voudoun religion of Haiti filmed by Maya Deren during 1947-1951, and edited posthumously by Teiji and Cherel Ito.
		The Voudoun pantheon of deities, or Ioa are introduced as living gods, actually taking possession of their devotees.
		Although best-known as a pioneer of the independent experimental cinema, Maya Deren was also a Voudoun initiate, and hence able to take her camera and recorder where few have gone before or since.
	info.wlu.ca /mtr/MediaCollection/D/v351.shtml (124 words)

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		In Europe a similar attempt is being made at recovering old pre-Christian ways, but since the old European shamanism is by and large long dead, they have far less to go on.
		As well as the lifeways of the Amerind tribes, also the ways of ancient Afrika are also showing up in Neo-paganism through the syncretes of Santeria and Voudoun.
		Both Santeria and Voudoun are based on the rites of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, the tribe that was most plundered by the slave trade to the Americas.
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys4/mysrel22.htm (440 words)

	The Arcane Archive - African/egyptian magic
		During a Voudoun ceremony, worshipers become possessed by the Loa being worshiped.
		Voudoun temples are called Hounfours and are traditionally circular buildings.
		Voudoun magickal tools often include a knife called Ku-bha-sah, used similarly to an Athame; a musical gourd called Asson, used similarly as a bell in other systems; and a whip called Fwet Kash, used similarly as a wand.
	www.arcane-archive.org /religion/african-egyptian-magic-1.php (797 words)

	Amazon.com: Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti: Books: Maya Deren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		When the subject of spirit possession comes up, Deren questions why the most impressive phenomenon of Voudoun is not seen as a direct pragmatic expression of the principles of the religion.
		Over 20,000 feet of film were shot by Deren in Haiti and remained unedited as she later came to see that it was impossible to alter the forms of the rituals of Voudoun.
		For that reason it is claimed that she never made a film and that her involvement in Voudoun destroyed her work as an artist which are fallacies.
	www.amazon.com /Divine-Horsemen-Living-Gods-Haiti/dp/0914232630 (1735 words)

	Teacher Information: Lady Amber Dawn
		This class will highlight the history of Voudoun from pre-Christian times to the Hougans and Mambos of the present day.
		It will also speak about the different types of Voudoun available today, including Haitian - the most famous of the Society; Dahomean; Mami Wata; Palo; and Secret Society.
		There will also be a discussion about the myths of voodoo, the Hollywood creation, and Voudoun, the religion.
	www.sacredspacefoundation.org /conference/ss_xvii/classes_dawn.html (288 words)

	Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		If it's Maya Deren you're interested in, and not voudoun itself, then you might want to shuffle this one to the bottom of your list.
		It's not terrible but it is distinctly reminiscent of those old "film strips" you had to watch in junior high (if you're my age that is).
		In the final analysis this film probably will give you a better basic understanding of voudoun than the typical AandE documentary, but it's just a little flat considering it deals with such a vivid subject.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0123802 (474 words)

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