Intensely powerful (and therefore magical) Loa of the Dead considered to be of the “family” of Ghede, but of New World rather than African conception, Petro rather than RadaĪ pool or tank of water sometimes provided at a hounfor.
Related to Badagri, on the western Nigerian coast a title and aspect of the Nago Loa Ogu or Ogoun.Ī Sudanese people represented in Haiti their cult animal in Africa was the antelope.īaron Cimetiere, Baron La Croix, Baron Samedi She is patroness of initiation, and the palm-tree is her symbol. The primal or archetypal Mambo, sometimes considered to be the wife of Loco, with whom she shares the guardianship of religious traditions, healing powers, and the reverence due to parents and to ancestors. Her “surname” Wedo may signify her association (along with Damballah) with the Serpent cult of Whydah or it may be simply a part of the name of the Nago Rainbow-Deity, Audowido. One of the revered Serpent-Deities of Rada Voudoun, who represent the sky powers the rainbow is her symbol, and as wife of Damballah she shares his function as cosmic protector and giver of blessing. The Deity of the Rainbow among the Nago people in Africa, represented as a serpent surrounded by spectrum colors. To be “given the asson” is to be raised to the priestly authority (see Houngan, Mambo.) The sacred rattle of Voudoun, its typical components being a calabash and snake vertebrae. Locality on the coast of Dahomey, from which Moreau de Saint-Mery refers to the Dahoman people generally as “aradas,” and from which comes the term “Rada” denoting a main group of Voudoun rites. Spouse of Maitresse Erzulie in her aquatic aspects. Loa of the ocean, of ships and boats, patron of seafarers.
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