{"id":4133,"date":"2020-08-18T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=4133"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:07:19","slug":"les-vodoun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/the-voodoo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vodoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDahomean-Fon mythology\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royaume_du_Dahomey\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<p>In Fon circles, the name is given <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/\">voodoo<\/a> to a divinity which designates a spiritual being, that is to say to a divine quality. marshy waters, called primeval waters or primordial ocean, to bring out the first lands of creation. Vodoun therefore evokes a cosmological narrative. A voodoo deity designates a universal principle manifesting itself through a phenomenon of Nature.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"the vodun\" width=\"25\" height=\"26\" title=\"\"><\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/dahomeenne-fon-mythology\/the-voodoo\/#Les-Vodoun\" >The Vodoun<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Les-Vodoun\"><\/span>The Vodoun<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\n\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p>The cult rendered to a vodoun god thus consists in appropriating the determinism underlying the phenomenon, in a technique of grasping and mastering the laws which govern the facts in their manifestations. It is therefore a question of knowledge relating to universal laws and their applications in man and in nature. It constitutes, according to us, a monotheism which is expressed in appearance by a symbolic polytheism. <\/p>\n<p>It is not a question of a religion, as Honorat Aguessy was able to highlight, \u201cof imploration and resignation\u201d but of \u201ccommand\u201d. In other words, it is a religion where one must \u201cbelieve in order to understand and understand in order to believe\u201d as Saint Augustine said. The &quot;vodounon&quot;, master of the creative act, and the &quot;bokonon&quot;, master of the living word, appear as scholars and sages of their society.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Also called &quot;houn&quot; a vodoun entity; which literally means the heart or what escapes the head, that is, the reason. From this derives the word &quot;hou-non&quot; literally meaning master of the mystery. By virtue of the mysterious character of voodoo, we thus name, also by comparison, everything that seems unknowable, inconceivable. Therefore, over time, many vodoun who surely have no divine reality were added to what really constituted the Pantheon of vodoun deities and from then on made their study more and more difficult. <\/p>\n<p>All the writings relating to the Pantheon voudoun, have moreover recognized the diversity of their origins and the migrations from one region to another. This difficulty, however, is only apparent, insofar as it can be removed by taking into account the laws of similarities which are found in all theologies. By following this method, one can discern a vodoun in the sense of divinity from another which is not. <\/p>\n<p>The data used in this contribution are essentially those reported by B. Maupoil in his <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/book-libraries\/\">book<\/a>, Geomancy on the ancient Coast of the Slaves, whose main interlocutor was the Dahomean Initiate Gu\u00e8d\u00e9gb\u00e9. <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">mythology<\/a>) of the old <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythes-et-legendes-grecques-1664\/\">Greece<\/a> and ancient Egypt. Moreover, these theologies shed light on each other. It is in this perspective that we make available to all those who are interested in the ancestral knowledge of the peoples of the Gulf of Guinea, this introduction to the Vodoun pantheon or Adja-Ewe mythology.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Voodoo in the beginning was linked to the mysteries of the universe. It relates to the primordial Principle, God, in its manifestations. The vodoun represent universal principles and are, therefore, divinities. on earth. In this respect, Tradition considers that they still live in the region of the divinities. <\/p>\n<p>They are rightly assimilated to divinities and venerated as such. This fact is also observed with the saints in other religions. We can thus identify three classes of vodoun entities: the vodoun talisman, the vodoun deity and the venerated ancestor vodoun. The following study concerns the second category: the deity vodoun. Our text is organized into six parts: the initial chaos, the universal elements, the god of 1<sup>time<\/sup>\u00a0generation and finally the gods of 2<sup>th<\/sup>, 3<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0generation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythologie Dahom\u00e9enne-Fon Wiki En milieu Fon, on donne le nom \u00ab vodoun \u00bb \u00e0 une divinit\u00e9 qui d\u00e9signe un \u00eatre &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4116,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24942,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4133\/revisions\/24942"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}