The White Darkness

Haiti to edit Master Click and Voodoo subtitle style Vod Voudoun

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1-2 Marise 3-4 Michelle 5-6 Tom

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Voodoo as fatalistic
Loa / Lwa--They act as intermediaries between human beings and the creator, (Bondye or Bon-Dieu - GoodGod), not unlike Saints and Angels do in Catholicism. Each has a very unique and developed personality. What they like and don't like is known and honored and each has distinct rhythms, songs, dances, symbols and rituals of service associated with it. Some Loa are easily recognized, some are more elusive. Phrases, actions and behavior indicate which Loa is present. When the Loa is identified, the symbols associated with them are offered. The Loa is fed, served and sometimes given or gives 4/18/12 help and/or advice. They do not have some need or

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Two rites of Voodoo

Rada: Rada rites follow the more traditional African patterns emphasizing the gentler, more positive attributes of the loas. Devotees were all white clothing during these ceremonies. Animal sacrifices, which represents the "partaking of the blood, include chicken, goats, and bulls. Three oxhide-covered drums provide the rhythms for the chanting, representing three atmospheres of the sun, or Legba: the largest, called Manman, related to the chromosphere; the next, called simply Second, related to the photosphere; and the smallest one, 4/18/12 called Bou-Lah, which is the solar

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Petro:

The Petro rites appear to have originated in Haiti during the slavery days. The name Petro allegedly comes from Don Juan Felipe Pedro, a Spanish Vodoun priest and former slave who contributed a rather violent style of dance to the ceremonies. Many of the Petro practices, including more violent worship services, and the use of red in the ceremonial clothing and on the face, which came from the Awak and Carib Indians who then lived on Saint Dominque. The Petro loas tend to be more menacing, deadly, and ill-tempered than other loas; many of their names simply have the appellation GeRouge (Red Eyes) after a Rada name to signify the Petro form. Pigs are sacrificed for 4/18/12 the benefit of

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Loas/ Lwas
Each Loa has a territory that they govern; several examples are below: Loa Territory Papa Legba Crossroads Macoufour Spiritual Highways and Byways Papa Loko The Father of the Loas Papa Dumbala The Rain Erusile Freeda The River Erusile Dantour The Ocean Papa Agwe The Wind http://www.leperistylehaitiansanctuary.com/gallery.html Papa Ogu Fires Above the Earth; Metals 4/18/12 Mali Louise Medicines

Voodoo belief states that there are two parts of the human soul. The two parts consists of ti-bonange (little good angel) and gros-bon-ange (great good angel). The gros-bon-ange is the bodys life force, and after death, the gros-bon-ange must return to the cosmos. To make sure that the tibon-ange is guaranteed a peaceful rest, the grosbon-ange must be recalled through an elaborate expensive ritual involving the sacrifice of a large animal, like an ox, to appease the ti-bon-ange. If the ti-bon-ange spirit is not satisfied and given a peaceful rest, the spirit remains earthbound forever and brings illness or disasters on others.
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People have 2 different spirits

The role of healing

In voodoo, disease is regarded as totally spiritual. Therefore, treatment is entirely spiritual, as well. Agreat deal of empirical knowledge is required to be a voodoo can happen for many reasons, but they are Diseases healer; herbs and other agents often play an important role. some way by Loa. Loa can be always mediated in angry at a person for whatever reason and cause disease; someone can invoke Loa to cause disease to another person; and Loa may cause disease for other reasons that can only be elucidated by a voodoo healer. Healing is often conducted by a houngan or mambo. Healing occurs in many ways; all are concerned with reinstating some harmony with the Loa.
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Examples of healing rites: supplicating the Loa with sacrifice, gift, or ritual uinviting a Loa to possess the healer and confer magical, healing qualities on him or her u having a dream inspired by Loa ufeeding the Loa u incorporating the Loa by ingesting herbs, foods, or other products that contain the Loa u honoring the Loa by wearing their color u inviting a Loa to possess the sick person u praying to a fetish (an icon or small figure representing a Loa and constructed of special material) The idea of a virus indiscriminately causing or honoring it with sacrifice,Loa, vexing, or black illness, without any gift, or ritual
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magic involved, is completely foreign to voodoo. There is always a personal element associated with illness.
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Voodoos relationship to Catholicism and Protestantism Roman Catholic 80%, Voodoo became
Protestant 16% (Baptist an official 10%, Pentecostal 4%, religion in Adventist 1%, other 1%), 2003, meaning none 1%, other 3%note: marriages and roughly half of the other population practices voodoo ceremonies now [From www.cia.gov, had legal Roman Catholic clergy, which doesntalthough opposed to voodoo, seem to recognition. classify voodoo as a have had a more benign religion.] view of it than Protestants, who see the religion as diabolical, possibly because 4/18/12 voodoo beliefs do not foster

TonightsFilmography: I Am Legion (2012) writer filmHigh Rise (2012) - co-writer

Directed by Richard Stanleygrew up in South Africa. His mother was an anthropologist who studied African

The Theatre Bizarre (2011) - anthology director Imago Mortis (2009) - cowriter Black Tulips (2008) - short; writerdirector Secret Glory (2001) - writerdirector elements of his Typical The movies are extreme Island of Dr. Moreau - dreams violence, occultism, co-writerBra "I do not feel that at any director and visionaries. time it was ever my decision Fields to the Nephilim:the movies I (1993 of make any of Revelations 4/18/12

What to watch for:

How are the Haitians presented? How is Christianity presented? How are non-Haitians presented? How objectively does Stanley, a man who makes horror films for a living, present the material? Is there a sense of respect, or of sensationalism, in the presentation?
4/18/12 The problems inherent in a film about a

Discussion
Did you have any knowledge or preconceived notions of voodoo? Has this film changed them? Explain the following quotes: Its better to die young than die poor. Then no one knows your business. You need to Ya sabas algo del vud? Qu opinin tenas del vud antes de ver esta pelcula? Has cambiado de opinin en alguna manera? Explica estas citas: Es mejor morir joven que morir pobre. As nadie se meta en tus asuntos. Hay que cristianizarlos antes de democratizarlos.
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Well be watching The Serpent and the Rainbow, a Presentations: Hollywood film based on the 1. Wade Davis true life 2. Tetrodoxotin experiences, 3. Ton-ton macoute and book, of 5 Harvard English reading: sentence anthropologist http://ourweekly.com/spiritua summary. Wade Davis. The movie stars Lectura en espaol: Bill Pullman and http://www.revistarevuelta.org Paul Winfield, You may, of course, and was read both! week. directed by Wes No summary due 4/18/12 next

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