In 1804 the outcome of the Haitian Revolution resulted in French- African slaves winning the war, taking control of the government, and kicking out of the country, every and any Frenchmen or Roman Catholic archetype in the land. This event is known to be the only occasion that ever transpired in victory for any type of slaves in recorded history. It has been traditionally known among the people of Haiti that it was by invoking the fighting spirit and asking for his spiritual guidance.The security in their practice and belief of vodou may have lead them out of oppression; nevertheless many give the religion a tough break. Various religions receive mistaken identities given off by non-believers whom never opted to openly learn about the said
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Many people hardly even know and may probably even have a hard time gaging that vodou is in fact a “legitimate” religion; therefore like all other religions, the practices and customs are just a way of life. Such a misfortune occurred when religion and sensationalism crossed paths with voodoo (also spelled vodou in Hatian Creole, voudon in French, all of which derived from Vodun, a word from the Fon language of modern-day Benin, connoting mysterious unseen powers that intervene in matters of the people) has come under heavy scrutiny as the Western masses came into contact without the blood spilling, spirit possessing practice. For one to truly be able to comprehend or put off judgments or misconceptions on the worshipers of vodou one needs to understand the historical factors and the features of the religion; the purpose of the practices and how the religion has been exploited; and how spread of the religion affected the rest of the world, must be encountered in order to set the misleading information apart from the truthful information about the religion known as …show more content…
Upon arrival to the Caribbean new world, the slaves implored he ancestral spirits for survival. They demonstrated the power of their faith the best way they knew how. It was through such demonstrations that the religion of vodou spread over from Haitian slaves to many catholic Spanish speaking countries such as the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Many of the vodou pracices took place at night and usually in the jungle. Native Spanish people still practiced Catholicism but the incorporation of vodou must have had an alluring appeal to the people for them to be known to have ancestral ties to vodou. In fact every year in October there is a pilgrimage to a spirit land of Maria Lionza in Serrania de Sorte in the state of Yaracuy, Venezuela by which she was one of the originators of this variant of vodou in that region of the world. Her followers believe that she and an Indian and an African found one another in the woods and perhaps due to the combination of the strong spiritual ties of the Native American Indians and the African beliefs in the spirit world that is how the cult of Maria Lionza became known what it is today. Many of the cult members are faithful and practicing Catholics but during the pilgrimage the call on the spirit world is reveled. Similar rituals take place as they would in Africa or Haiti, a houngan or mambo is possessed by ancestor spirit, most
Many people hardly even know and may probably even have a hard time gaging that vodou is in fact a “legitimate” religion; therefore like all other religions, the practices and customs are just a way of life. Such a misfortune occurred when religion and sensationalism crossed paths with voodoo (also spelled vodou in Hatian Creole, voudon in French, all of which derived from Vodun, a word from the Fon language of modern-day Benin, connoting mysterious unseen powers that intervene in matters of the people) has come under heavy scrutiny as the Western masses came into contact without the blood spilling, spirit possessing practice. For one to truly be able to comprehend or put off judgments or misconceptions on the worshipers of vodou one needs to understand the historical factors and the features of the religion; the purpose of the practices and how the religion has been exploited; and how spread of the religion affected the rest of the world, must be encountered in order to set the misleading information apart from the truthful information about the religion known as …show more content…
Upon arrival to the Caribbean new world, the slaves implored he ancestral spirits for survival. They demonstrated the power of their faith the best way they knew how. It was through such demonstrations that the religion of vodou spread over from Haitian slaves to many catholic Spanish speaking countries such as the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Many of the vodou pracices took place at night and usually in the jungle. Native Spanish people still practiced Catholicism but the incorporation of vodou must have had an alluring appeal to the people for them to be known to have ancestral ties to vodou. In fact every year in October there is a pilgrimage to a spirit land of Maria Lionza in Serrania de Sorte in the state of Yaracuy, Venezuela by which she was one of the originators of this variant of vodou in that region of the world. Her followers believe that she and an Indian and an African found one another in the woods and perhaps due to the combination of the strong spiritual ties of the Native American Indians and the African beliefs in the spirit world that is how the cult of Maria Lionza became known what it is today. Many of the cult members are faithful and practicing Catholics but during the pilgrimage the call on the spirit world is reveled. Similar rituals take place as they would in Africa or Haiti, a houngan or mambo is possessed by ancestor spirit, most