The Secrets of Voodoo Magic
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Present in the Caribbean and South America, the cult of voodoo has its origins in Africa.
the West. This remarkable presence of Vodoun culture in such distant regions
is simply explained by the slave trade which did not only deport men and women,
but also beliefs. On this point at least, all opinions agree. However, as far as
from the functionality, values, and content of voodoo religion, a lot of misunderstandings
and superstitions still persist. Some sources make a direct connection between witchcraft and the
practice of voodoo, while in fact they are two different realities. While voodoo gives
homage to deities through different cults, witchcraft is the use of occult forces
with the intent to harm. Nevertheless, it remains that these are two phenomena that are related to the
same company, to the same people which may explain the confusion. But the forces
Voodoo mystics can also be used to harm, and this should not be confused with
witchcraft that is from another realm. In Benin, the country of origin of this religion, voodoo is
celebrated every January 10th, and it is a national holiday.
Voodoo in practice
Like most so-called primitive religions in Europe, America, or Asia, the religion
Voodoo includes a plurality of deities, each with its own history and anecdotes as well as its
or its areas of expertise. What is, however, evident is that the secrets of practice
Voodoo is not accessible to everyone. And even within the secret circle of the initiated, all the
Known secrets are not the same from one level to another.
In practice, voodoo is the intermediary spirit between man and God who is at the head of all.
creation. Voodoo somehow advocates for man before Mahu (God the
creator), but can also decide to punish him. To act, the spirit of voodoo is capable of
to transform into a man made of flesh and blood between noon and 1 PM during the day and between
midnight and the first crow of the rooster at night. In practice, voodoo is not just a religion to
which one refers to for finding solutions to life's problems. It is actually the code of life
populations that are true practitioners of it; and this religion has, whatever one chooses to
to believe, especially in Africa in Benin, resisted all the assaults of Western beliefs, because good
the names of those who practice other religions still find themselves in the convents of
different deities of voodoo.
The deities of voodoo worship
Mahu: As we mentioned above, is the supreme deity, to whom Lissa is connected as her side.
masculine. It is understood that God is a duality of consciousness, one masculine (Lissa) and the other
feminine (Mahu). All the other deities are so to speak descendants of this divine couple.
And Lègba, well known in the cosmogony of voodoo, is its last descendant. The Lègba all
like all the other deities of voodoo that we will mention in the following lines
will follow have their own cults, their own followers and their own secrets, therefore convents
distincts.
Ogou: He is the supreme deity of those who use iron in their daily lives, for example the
blacksmiths, as well as hunters. Ogou is a vengeful deity who is greatly feared, as he is attributed
many mysterious deaths, particularly at noon.
Lègba: He is the protector of the village. Commonly, there is one in each neighborhood. But we
he also assigns truly contradictory roles such as those of sowing discord and the
chaos.
Dan: The name actually means fortune. But in the pantheon of voodoo, he is represented as a
serpent and a rainbow, "Dan" also meaning serpent. But it is not this connection that
explain the choice of name, the serpent represents material abundance and longevity in the
voodoo.
Tchango: He is the god of thunder in this case. He is also a punishing god who takes care of
to execute sentences pronounced against unscrupulous individuals. Its symbolism is a
double hache.
Sakpata: Even more feared than the deity Ogoun, Sakpata is responsible for smallpox. The land
is its element.
Finally, it should be noted that the cult of voodoo should not be confused with the cult of the manes of
ancestors who are more prevalent in the northern parts of the countries that practice voodoo. In
Africa, the dead do not disappear, their souls transcend death to rise to the rank of
deities to whom one can turn for solutions in the visible world.
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