Sirène, La
La Sirène is a beautiful, classical mermaid with long flowing hair. Her name literally means “the mermaid.” She holds a mirror, which serves as a…
Month: August 2017
Simbi
You don’t have to be human to be a magician. Simbi, among the greatest of all magicians, is a water snake spirit who rules all…
Silibo
Silibo In his book, Ecstatic Voyage, seventeenth-century German scholar Athanasius Kircher describes the sun as populated “with angels of fire swimming in seas of light…
Sili Kenwa
Sili Kenwa is a Dominican manifestation of the lwa known in Haiti as Ezili Coeur Noir, or “Black Hearted Ezili”. Sili Kenwa is syncretized to…
Rada Spirits
Rada Spirits The Rada lwa are among the two primary Haitian Vodou pantheons. (The other is the Petro lwa.) Most Rada spirits hail directly from…
Ogun
Ogun is the West African spirit of iron. He is iron. Hold a knife or horseshoe in your hand and you hold Ogun.
Marinette
The Haitian Revolution was initiated at a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caiman when a priestess (Mambo) sacrificed a black pig, invoking the lwa, Ezili Dantor,…
Marassa
Marassa The Marassa, Vodou’s sacred twins, are spirits of paradox: They are two distinct bodies who share one soul (or they are one soul with…
Lwa
Lwa The lwa are the spirits of Vodou. The word lwa is both singular and plural. It’s an African word. Lwa is the modern Haitian…
Loko
Papa Loko, a primal root lwa, is the spirit of the very first Vodou priest (houngan), a master magician and healer. He is the presiding…