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Consciously choose one or more divine beings, acknowledge them and seek their tutelage. Truth is, you are already practicing Vodun under different named religions. And yes you are asking for good things for yourself and bad things for your enemies. You are asking for blessings and curses. The curse part is the same thing Vodun has been vilified for but the focus has been on “voodo dolls” and chicken feet and all manner of false portrayals. Yet other people clutch crosses and rosary beads and all manner of objects they consider sacred and powerful, including holy water, prayer cloths and flags.You don't need a name to talk to God or any higher power or any being. Get in your quiet place and think the thoughts or speak the thoughts. We can give God any name we choose. It is our god-given right to name self and anything else, even if someone else has already named it.
Vodun is simply about acknowledging the relationships between many spirits (powers, forces). Even though an alternate spelling is Voodoo, that spelling is used to denigrate Vodun. Hoodoo is another version of Vodun which itself is a version of Typhon, Votan and Vulcan.Like all religions, Vodun acknowledges that a group of gods exist with different abilities. Other words for gods are: beings, superhumans, angels, elohim, souls of life, spirits, ancestors, supernaturals, teotes, zemes and so on. Just because we use different symbols and names for these beings doesn't mean these divine beings or forces are fundamentally different. They are not, even though human understandings are. The use of humans as symbols of the divine doesn't mean that all other symbols are pagan ignorant. If we are honest, we will admit that during the recent period of the human form used to represent the divine, that human thinking and behavior has been the most disharmonious, within and without, above and below.
In our made for television programmed silly minds, we hear “Voodoo” and think evil, blood, hex, chickens, when in reality all these things are present in other religions in different forms. There are a whole lot of blood sacrifices and rituals in the Judaeo-Christian bible, even Jesus himself as a lamb whose blood cures the curse of sin. A curse that God put on humans because of A dam man and Evel woman. And supposedly hungover Noah cursed Ham. Hungry Jesus cursing trees. But let's keep it real real. Why would someone think that consuming a cracker and a sip of wine has any special power just because it's called communion or Eucharist? Yet those same people believe that using other items from nature are pagan rituals. Yet these same people do all manner of things such as pet rocks and bring home sand in a bottle and call them souvenirs on and on. Yes you do do Voodoo too.In Haitian Vodou, Agwe represents the ocean. He is husband to Lasiren, a mermaid, and cousin to her sister, La Balen, a whale. We know Lasiren + Agwe is Sirene Oshun as Mami Wata, Great Mother of the Waters whose constellation is Aquaria whose time has come. (Encyclopedia of African Religion)
We can be certain that almost all of the stupidity regarding human understandings of Vodun is due to the efforts of white folks to denigrate all things African, and in this instance, artificially inflate and elevate their whitewashed forms of African religion.Vodun Fuels African Revolution
I am calling you out of your dry places, calling all Africans to practice an African religion in its unadulterated form, which is to say, simply reach within self and speak to the forces of life and existence.Discussed several times before, ancestors keep reminding us that African spiritual practices are a powerful weapon against the forces of evil spiritually and physically.
The practice of African spiritual traditions in the form of Vodun fueled the Haitian Revolution.
The power of Vodun in fostering a sense of empowerment and self-determination in Africans created an atmosphere of terror among the white slave-holding racist community, which made them feel vulnerable, insecure and paranoid. Same stuff going on in their psychopathic-sociopathic psyches today.
African spiritual tradition, in its clean unadulterated form, unifies Africans. By this then ye shall know what's what.Africans! Call upon François Makandal, Jean-François, Georges Biassou Romaine, Médor, Boukman “Zamba” Dutty, Cécile Fatiman and all ancestors known and unknown, human and superhuman.
Boukman called on Africans to rely on the forces of the Supreme Being found in all African religions, as opposed to the “false” Christian god of the whites. This was a call for blacks to draw from within themselves and from their own beliefs the strength to fight for their freedom using logic that works.
Koute lalibete nan tout kè nou! (“Listen to the voice of liberty which speaks in the hearts of all of us”).