3401 x 5120 px | 28,8 x 43,3 cm | 11,3 x 17,1 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
16 luglio 2017
Altre informazioni:
Voodoo Festival in Saut d'Eau, Haiti. Although the epicenter is the water that throws the waterfall, all formed around different places of worship where the faithful encenden candles and pray in trees to pray for luck, money or love. With frenetic rhythms and exciting music it contributes to the collective ecstasy reached at certain times of celebration. Voodoo Festival Saut d'Eau is celebrated every year on July 16 to coincide with the day on which in 1847 appeared a vision of the Virgin Mary. Thousands of devotees coming from all parts of Haiti are bathed in this water for purified or pra perdirle the Grand Master that their dreams become reality. Voodoo is the main religion of Haiti. The followers need to be possessed by a spirit Iwa to communicate with Grand Met, since this is abut far from the physical plane. In the photograph one of the assistants is abut possessed by the great Iwa. The Iwa cited most frequently are those of the Rada rite, which are also known as duces or good. The function of a houngan is, with the help of the entities that calls, get cures, information given, (as distinct from shamanic visions) and influencing nature. All with benign purposes. The woman may also be houngan if you have skills and is chosen for it, denominándosela manbo. Houngan may have nefarious intentions or use its convening power for evil, then it is called Bokor. American Voodoo is a clear example of syncretic evolution between this theistic-animistic religion, Christian beliefs of the slave and local religions of peoples such as the Tainos, which began when many African Gulf of Guinea were used as slaves in Haiti and other Caribbean locations.
