Height 23.5 cm
Product description
Ewé vaudou stiche from Benin. Part of over 50 years.
Vaudou was born from the meeting of traditional cults of the Yorubas gods and the fon and ewe deities, during the creation then the expansion of the Fon of Abomey kingdom in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Vaudou is the cultural foundation of the peoples which come by successive migrations of Tado in Togo, the Adja (including the Fons, the Gouns, the Ewe ... and to a certain extent the Yoruba ...) peoples which constitute an important element of the populations south of the States of the Gulf of Benin (Benin, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria ...).
Vaudou (which one pronounces vodoun) is the adaptation by the fon of a word Yoruba meaning "God". Voodoo therefore designates all of the gods or invisible forces whose men try to reconcile power or benevolence. It is the affirmation of a supernatural world, but also all the procedures allowing to enter into contact with it. Voodoo corresponds to the Yoruba cult of the Orishas. Just as Voodoo is a cult in the spirit of the world of the invisible. With each opening, the Vodoun priest requests the help of the spirit of Papa Legba to open the doors of the two worlds.
Voodoo can be described as a culture, a legacy, a philosophy, an art, dances, a language, an art of medicine, a style of music, justice, an oral power and rites.
With the slave trade, voodoo culture has spread to America and the Caribbean islands, notably Haiti. It is characterized by the rites of "incorporation" (voluntary and provisional possession by spirits), animal sacrifices, belief in living dead (zombies) and in the possibility of their artificial creation, as well as the practice of witchcraft on pins dolls (voodoo doll).
The practice of their religion and culture was prohibited by the colonists, liable to death or imprisonment, and was therefore practiced in secret. Vaudou, however, integrated Catholic rites and conceptions, making it acceptable. Thus was born the "Christian Voodoo".
In the 1950s, the Vatican made peace with Voodoo worship.
Voodoo has continued and its practitioners display their belief without fear.
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