Mezanmi! Enjoy the restful Lent.
I haven’t forgotten about you! It’s Lent, and closer and closer to Holy Week, that time of year when our Lwa go anba dlo and rest and prepare for the rest of the year. This evening I covered up all our...
View ArticleFour years later
It started with a text. Hey there was just a bad earthquake in Haiti, is Mami Marie OK? I was in the car that afternoon, waiting for my downstairs neighbor to come out of the appointment I’d driven her...
View ArticleOld Posts Restored; back after PantheaCon
An older version of the website surfaced long enough for me to grab the articles off from it and export them to this blog. Now you can read what I had to say about U.S. aid to Haiti after the 12...
View ArticleAnimal sacrifice in the news
Last weekend at PantheaCon, I was part of a panel discussion on sacrifice (of all kinds, hosted by Coru Cathubodua). I mentioned at one point during the conversation, when we were talking about the...
View ArticleMore sacrifice-related links; more on Denmark
Discussion on the PantheaCon sacrifice panel is beginning. Here are two blogs that discuss it: “A libation without a prayer is a spilled drink” by John Beckett “PantheaCon 2014: A Reflection” by the...
View ArticleWhy Vodou work isn’t free
There’s a Haitian proverb: mambo (houngan) pa travay pou gran mesi “Mambo (Houngan) doesn’t work for a big thank you.” This means not only that good mambos or houngans aren’t doing spiritual work for...
View ArticleSacrifices in Vodou (Excerpt from HAITIAN VODOU)
A current trending topic among friends and colleagues is the discussion of sacrifice and its place in religious practice. Far more eloquent people than myself have said some excellent things. I’ve been...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Haiti – See you soon!
Another New Year’s Day is upon us, and it’s time for soup joumou. (Why? You can read about that in a previous New Year’s post, here.) You can also sing the Joumou rap with Haitian Jonas, here. These...
View ArticlePatreon live; catch the current blogging there!
Bonswa! As of late 2016, I’ve started a Patreon for all things Vodou: http://www.patreon.com/chitatann Please join us there. I make at least one public post per week, and many more for my Patreon...
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