Anth116w- Mama Lola Final Exam Notes
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Papa Gede - ANSWER✔✔has subdivided into many paths—he is the owner of the
cemetery, the guardian of small children, sex and humor. He is a trickster lwa who
comes last, stays late to provide comic relief and help participants at a Vodou party
to transition back into the regular world. He is like a favorite uncle, a randy young
man with a voracious sexual appetite, a corpse, and a child who likes to joke with
bathroom and sexual humor and throw food and pretend to steal things. He can
satirize the military and the church as few can in Haitian society. One of his forms
is Baron Samedi. Represented as a spider, a skull, and a walking cane with an
oversized erect phallus.
Papa Danbala - ANSWER✔✔oldest and most pure Lwa who is both a rainbow and
a serpent. Connects Africa and Haiti; connection between land and sky, human and
lwa, etc.
- Also connects Haitians with their unknown or forgotten African Ancestral
lineages (which may have been forgotten due to forced migration)
Papa Gede Subdivisions - ANSWER✔✔- The head of all the gede spirits is Baron
Samedi or Baron La croix (owner of the cemetery)
- Gedelia may be a version of Gede who can model female sexuality & forces,
humor &energy
(Healing) GAD - ANSWER✔✔- Guard or charm to ward off evil.
- May be something in ones home or may be a cut made in ones skin with
protective herbs rubbed into it.
If one others tend to call one naïve. Their understanding is that good luck must
worked be at and bad luck must be warned off.
Altar/Spirit Altar - ANSWER✔✔- Only cooled items can be placed on the altar
- Types of foods/drinks/items on the altar tells you some things about the Lwa that
altar is for
- used to host Spiritual Birthday parties for Lwas
-inherited by new Manbo/Oungan
, Manbo/Mambo - ANSWER✔✔- Priestess; female leader of the group; ritual
mother of the Vodou House
-have intuitive powers called "the gift of eyes", have "intuitive powers" which
allows them to see protective spirits directly
Snake Dance - ANSWER✔✔Vodou, a Snake Dance is done by a Woman to
represent
balance between male and female, sky and earth, spirit and
human—with the snake representing Danballa.
• Veves to Danballa are sacred spirit writings done
Vodou/Spirit Marriage - ANSWER✔✔- Marrying a Lwa to intensify their
protection
- give up one night a week to receive them in one's dreams (theoretically can marry
up to 7)
- wear their color and give them special offerings that day
- marrying 2 lwas to balance each other out and not overwhelm the host
Spirit/Offerings - ANSWER✔✔Lwas require actual food and drink (cooled), and
occasional animal sacrifice and items they like. Vodou practitioners also pray,
clap, and sing during the ceremony
Marie Laveau - ANSWER✔✔Was born September 10 1794, and was a Louisiana
Creole practitioner of Voodoo renowned in New Orleans. She was born free in
New Orleans. a free woman of color who was a hairdresser, a Catholic who prayed
with Father Antoine for yellow fever victims, and saw clients to help them through.
Voodoo in New Orleans.
- Great women of history/ great Vodou practitioner/
Marie-Jacques - ANSWER✔✔- slang for "high class prostitute"
- Alourdes worked as one when she couldn't find work to feed her children
doesn't charge for her services; & instead depends on "unsolicited gifts from
satisfied clients.
Work - ANSWER✔✔An act of magic, good or bad, that is sent against another
person
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