The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based spiritist-animist religious tradition. Its roots are varied and include the Fon, Ewe, and Yoruba peoples of West Africa, from western Nigeria to eastern Ghana. In Benin, Vodun is the national religion, and followed by around 60% of the population, or some 4½ million people. The word vodún is the Fon-Ewe word for ...

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• Voodoo - The African Origins
• Voodoo - New World Traditions
• Voodoo - Haitian Vodou
• Voodoo - Demographics

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Vodun is a monotheistic and magical form of animism that developed among various West African ethnic groups predating historical times. The cultural area of the Fon, Gun, Mina and Ewe peoples share common metaphysical conceptions around a dual cosmological divine principle: Nana Buluku, the God-Creator and the God(s)-Actor(s) or Vodun(s), daughters and sons of the Creator's twin children Mawu (goddess of the moon) and Lisa (sun god). The God-Creator is the cosmogonical principle, who does not trifle with the mundane, and the Vodun(s) are the God(s)-Ac ...

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Voodoo, Voodoo - The African Origins, Voodoo - New World Traditions, Voodoo - Haitian Vodou, Voodoo - Demographics

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Voodoo - Haitian Vodou. Called Sèvis Gine or "African Service" in Haiti, a Creolized form of Vodou, Haitian Vodou also has strong elements from the Ibo and Bakongo people of Central Africa and the Yoruba of Nigeria, though many different people or "nations" of Africa have representation in the liturgy of the Sèvis Gine, as do the Taíno Indians, the original people of the island now known as Hispaniola. A large and significant portion of Haitian Vodou most often overlooked by scholars, especially English ...

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Voodoo, Voodoo - The African Origins, Voodoo - New World Traditions, Voodoo - Haitian Vodou, Voodoo - Demographics

Read more here: » Voodoo: Encyclopedia II - Voodoo - New World Traditions