The Voodoo Religion of New Orleans The roots of voodoo run deep with the sordid history of slavery in America, originating from the traditional West African religion of vodoun (also vodun), it further evolved once it reached Haiti and Louisiana. Louisiana voodoo—properly known as vodoun—the queens and priestesses hold the highest position within this matriarchal religion. … [Read more...] about Oddities of the Bayou: Religions and the Occult
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Spirits Within Voodoo: Ancestors, and the Loa
Voodoo in New Orleans is quite distinguishable from the practice in other parts of the world, it grew to be more inclusive of the spiritualism that sprang up within the nineteenth century. Within the voodoo religion, powerful spirits called loa—also called mystères, or the invisibles—unlike saints and angels that are housed within the Judeo-Christian religions, they are not … [Read more...] about Spirits Within Voodoo: Ancestors, and the Loa