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Origins and Meaning of Ginen
Ginen, also known as Guinée or La Guinée, is a term widely used to refer to the place of origin for the descendants of Africans in Haiti. The phrase “nou soti lwen, nou se Nèg Lafrik Ginen”—translating to “We come from afar, we are from the Guinea region of Africa”—captures the profound connection Haitians feel to their ancestral homeland. Over 90% of Haitian ancestors were brought from the West Coast of Africa, a region historically known as Ginen. This area was located roughly 8,800 kilometers from the Caribbean, making the journey long and difficult.
THE JOURNEY TO HAITI
During the peak of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, ships transporting enslaved people took approximately three months to travel from Ginen to Haiti. The hardship and length of this voyage is reflected in Vodou songs such as “si Ginen pa te lwen konsa, lontan mwen mache chimen mwen,” meaning, “If Guinea were not so far away, I would have long since found my way back.” For those ancestors taken from Africa to Haiti, this was a one-way journey with no hope of returning home. Over time, the name Ginen or Guinée became a general term used to refer to West Africa as a whole.
SPIRITUAL AND SYMBOLIC IMPORTANCE OF GINEN
Beyond its geographical significance, Ginen also holds deep spiritual meaning. It is considered a most sacred location, sustaining a holistic worldview where relationships and interactions within the supernatural realm are central. Ginen is seen as both a physical place on earth and as the realm of the afterlife, inhabited by the spirits of the ancestors. In Haitian tradition, Ginen represents the space between the natural and the supernatural.
In its dimensional aspect, Ginen does not refer only to a physical location. Instead, it embodies the concept of creation, serving as the spiritual birthplace—the source from which all souls originate. This is why rituals such as le mo anba dlo exist in Vodou. Through these ceremonies, a person's soul is called forth using water, symbolizing the belief that we are born from water and will return there. Thus, Ginen is understood as the place where souls originate, return, and reside.
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.


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.

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.

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

A Pwen is a defense prosperity and well being.
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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=
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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.

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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