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By Milo Rigaud
Secrets and techniques of Voodoo strains the improvement of this complicated faith (in Haiti and the Americas) from its resources within the exceptional civilizations of historical Africa. This e-book provides a simple account of the gods or loas and their functionality, the symbols and indicators, rituals, the ceremonial calendar of Voodoo, and the approaches for acting magical rites are given.
“Voodoo,” derived from phrases which means “introspection” and “mystery,” is a method of trust in regards to the formation of the area and human future with transparent correspondences in different international religions. Rigaud makes those connections and discloses the esoteric which means underlying Voodoo’s outward manifestations, that are usually misinterpreted. Translated from the French through Robert B. go. Drawings and pictures via Odette Mennesson-Rigaud.
Milo Rigaud was once born in Port au Prince, Haiti, in 1903, the place he spent the better a part of his existence learning the Voodoo culture. In Haiti he studied legislation, and in France ethnology, psychology, and theology. The involvement of Voodoo within the political fight of Haitian blacks for independence was once considered one of his major issues
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The following chant explains the concept of this opening of the ways of the astral by which the material of the rectified, organized, and balanced sacrifice will ascend: Ati Bon Legba, ouvri barriè pou moin, ago yé! Voudoun Legba, ouvri barriè pou moin, pou moin ca rentré. LTiei m'a tounin, m'a remercié loa-yo. Ati Bon Legba, open the barrier for me, ago yeh! Voudoun Legba, open the barrier for me, so that I can re-enter, When I return I shall thank the loas. " It is the voodoo Mercury who conducts the s o u l from the visible to the invisibles, starting from the crossroads, a n d who then leads the invisibles to the crossroads to receive the sacrifice.
Furthermore, the finest gift that a person can give a loa is a bottle of perfume, or even a drop of perfume. Given perfume, a mystère is immediately ravished, his immateriality being allowed, as it were, a sort of super-immaterility. Perfume offered is more efficacious if it is the kind that the loa to 88 SECRETS O F VOODOO whom it is offered prefers. Every mystère has his own particular perfume, inasmuch as this perfume has its counterpart in what the Voodoo Initiatic calls the Sacred Osmology, or Science of Odors.
The Roles of the Gods For the purpose of clarifying the roles of all the mystères, it will suffice to present several traditional interpretations of the important fundamental loas of the Voodoo Cult. These roles show the reasons why the Haitian Voodooist considers the gods vitally inseparable from himself. Silibo Vavou, or Schibhlo Vavau Erzulie adorning herself; science; omniscience; prescience; the holy spirit of initiation. Marassah The sun as magic regency of the sky through birth and rebirth.