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ginen

GINEN

Ginen (also referred to as Guinée or La Guinée), is commonly refer to a place of origin of the africans descendants;  often saying “nou soti lwen, nou se Nèg Lafrik Ginen: We come from afar, we are from the Guinea region of Africa.  The vast majority of Haitian ancestors, over 90%, were imported to Haiti from the West Coast of Africa. That coast was called Ginen . Ginen was far, about 8,800 kilometers from the Caribbean. At the height of the Trans-Atlantic Trade of People as Slaves, it took 3 months for ships to travel from Ginen to Haiti. This long voyage gives credence to such Vodou songs as “si Ginen pa te lwen konsa, lontan mwen mache chimen mwen: If Guinea were not so far away, I would have long since found my way back.” When Haitian Ancestors were taken out of Africa to Haiti, it was for a one-way trip, never to return home. The name Ginen/Guinée became a generic term used to refer to West Africa as a whole.  


Ginen  has additional meaning, it is  also representative of a most sacred location because it sustains the holistic worldview in which it precise relationships and interactions that  take place within the supernatural realm It is the world  between the natural and the supernatural. In  essence it is at once a concrete place on earth and the place of the afterlife, inhabited by the spirits of our Ancestors. In Traditional Haitian Religion, there is no pedestal high enough to capture the great value that we bestow upon our Ancestors, the Ginen people.  Haitian people  describe themselves as heirs of Ginen, Eritye Ginen.  In Vodou practice, they salue Ginen, the salue all four point cardinal to show respect to the spirit who are consider the gate keepers inorders to give passage to world of ginen.

LOAS IN HAITIAN VODOU

RACINE VODOU

The loas are the spirits of Haitian Vodou. They are intermediaries between this world and the invisible world. They are the supreme from the world and humanity. They are each distinct beings with their own characteristics and distinct sacred rhythms, songs, dances and rituals symbols, as well as special modes and services.

NAN VODOU

LOAS

LOAS

LOAS

Loa are a combination of energy who exist in the universe,  some where once human who used to live on this earth after death they spirits are transcend into cosmic power granted to them by the universe.  Moreover some loas are primordio.

JOUK

LOAS

LOAS

A Jouk is a point of defense in vodou.  You Jouk a loa to give it more force.  Jouk are created using element of nature.   These jouks are created under different condition and contract with the entity for which it is created.  element from these jouks can be sued for healing purpose and wanga.

GAD

LOAS

PWEN

A GAD is a human created, a gad is a magical attribution created by human according or in the name of a spirit through which additional power is granted to that spirit to provide or strength additional power to the spirit and the person for which it is created

PWEN

LOAS

PWEN

A Pwen is a defense prosperity and well being.

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TERMS NAN VODOU

SALUTATION IN VODOU

Ayibobo = Salye Lwa (rit Rada)

Ago=  salitasyon an prezans yon enèji 

Afoutayi

Bila Bila

Bisalaw= Jan rele rasanble moun lan mòn

Bilolo = Salye lwa (rit petro)

Awochenago= Salitasyon nan non nanchon Nago 

Alaso = Salitasyon lwa zaka 

Woukoukou = cri Vodouyizan yo lè gen yon nanm ki travèse...

Abobo- definisyon svp m souvan tande yap dil oubyen eske se yn defòmatyon Ayibobo

AGO = prete'm atansyon'w, pèmèt nou antre.

AGOSI = prete'm atansyon isit la. 

AGOLA = prete'm atansyon nou lòtbò a.

Awo=

kWA SEMBO

ASAWO

SAVALOUE

  

Abobo = Salye Lwa (rit Rada)

Ago=  salitasyon a prezans on enèji

AGO = prete'm atansyon'w, pèmèt nou antre. 

AGOSI = prete'm atansyon isit la.  

AGOLA = prete'm atansyon nou lòtbò a. 



TERM NAN VODOU

Ason= Zouti kòmandman hougan/manbo lan rit kanzo.

bòkò = ki gen konesans lan fèy

Divinò = moun ki gen je

Foulaye = soufle vapè alkòl 

Govi = krich an tè kwit 

Gwètò = moun ki chwazi lan yon fanmi (sak reklame a)

kase kanari = homaj a ibo (pèp ki soti Nigeria) kite viv 

Langay =Lang sekrè inisye voudou

Lave tèt =premye etap lan inisyasyon rit kanzo

Mawofwe = Lè loa vante on sèvitè li pral chevoche li

Onjènikon = Inisye ki mennen yon seremoni ak chante

Repozwa = kote on pati lan enèji lwa rete 

Wenken = Avata, moun ki tout puisan

Wonga = fòmil majik, jè majik, preparasyon majik lan vodou..

Vèditè= Moun

Tchovi= Timoun 

Sole= Solèy

Alada= Repozwa lè nou janbe

Vi = pitit 

Vodouvi = Eritye, pitit Vodouyizan,

Vodouyizan = Sèvitè ak Sèvant Vodou.

Vodousi = moun ki renmen Vodou epi vle vin Vodouyizan.

Diab = fòs, djyanm 

Dyougan = vanyan = ki gen konesans lan fèy

Divinò = moun ki gen je

Boulez-zain mort Ou-an Zain—a ceremony performed once or three times, according to the degree held by the deceased.  

 Dé-sou-nin—recovery of the powers of deceased initiates.

 Rafraîchi-tête (Refreshing the head)—a further baptism for rein forcing the maître-tête lwas by opening wider for them the pathway of the spirit by the magical power of water.   

 Haussements (Lifting, or rising) —ceremonies of the granting of initiatory degrees, including the successive degrees to which the houn’sih can-zo, La Place, Houn’guénicon, Confiance, Mambo, Houn'gan, and others may attain.  

 Can-Zo, or Boulez-Zain: initiatory “putting to bed” on the “houn’sih-point,” or “ordinary putting to bed”—

 Mette n’anme (Placing the soul)—a process which magically balances the ba and the ka of the newborn, that is, the two parts of the soul. 






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