13252: Mendjazla, Re: 13240: Karshan on vodou special on AOL (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Mendjazla@aol.com

The photographs and descriptions are very nice, thanks for pointing this out.
 Its nice to see Vodou being presented in such a straightforward way in a
mainstream media context like AOL.  A pleasant suprise, actually.

For anyone who cares about the specifics of the content, there is one error
that jumped out at me.
Under the photo taken at Lakou Soukrie, it is described as an annual festival
for the Rada lwa, which can be traced back to West Africa - actually Soukrie
is a celebration of the Kongo lwa and those of Kongo ancestry (Southern
Africa).

This is a major difference in "branches" or "nations" of spirits within the
pantheon of Vodou, and a distinction which should not be lost.


-Markus