'Voodoo and the Laws of Religion'

' godliness is a au and sotication of human society. many people fasten their lives through the recitation of religion, which is as change as the finiss that rehearse them. Haitian Vodou is often misunderstood as a vicious practice shew solely on Voodoo dolls, curses and blood line sacrifices. In truth, Vodou is a complex and fighting(a) religion that involves the map of figures derived from African mythology, the symbiosis of imagery betwixt Vodou and Catholicism and the ingestion of participation, observation and self-will as a way for the fellowship to directly touch on to their religious deities.\nimputable to the similarity of the hide in Vodou and Catholicism, and the manifest reverence Haitians flip for this token, many scholars make the Vodou report is borrowed from papistic Catholicism, but the figure of the cross is derived from African mythology, 1 caseful being from the Fon mythology in Benin. According to capital of Minnesota Mercier, the Fon describe the institution as a sphere intersected by two planes, caused by the Godhead, Mawu Lisa as she move to the four fundamental points of the universe, thus creating the initiation (Mercier 1968, 220-21). Mawu Lisa traveled end-to-end the universe, stopping at the four quarters of space, which barrack to the four carmine points of the cosmos (Desmangles, 101). Mawu traveled from west to east, then north to south, forming a cosmic cross. The symbol of the cross is not restricted to one African culture group, but is found throughout Africa, as the Bambara people alike recount the movements of a cross in their creation myth. The cross, as seen in Vodou and in its original African mythology, is a symbol of reverence and has smashing significance for these groups. The cross is also seen as the symbol of Legba, the keeper of the gates, and as a gateway amidst the two worlds: That of the misguide human world, and the sacral world of the laws who lie in Vilokan.\nIn Ha itian Vodou there is a dependent relationship amid Roman Cath... '