Anger is very important to us in African spirituality. Not emphasized over other emotions, but not demonized or downplayed. For example, we see anger in many of the Pataki, such as Shango and his anger as a force to bring change. But anything at an extreme or out of balancing is going to be...
Because hair is dead it is a connection to the spiritual world. It also provides spiritual protection. This is why hair my be shaved during many initiations (e.g. some Vodou, Santeria), to allow the Lwa or Orisha in with greater ease. Hair is also related to astral experience and astral travel...
Thank you! I will absolutely try to make a thread about my personal beliefs in more detail when I have more time. In general to answer your question, the forms of religion my family and myself practice are mixed. We are initiated in and practice Vodou in the Fon and Dahomey fashion, as retained...
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Thank you all for providing a good open forum for discussion and debate. My name is Simon Remi and I was born in Ishango in the DNC, but currently am living in Belgium. I am a practitioner of traditional African religion and spirituality (specifically indigenous religions of...
There are many unbroken African religious traditions all over, although especially in central Africa. African countries were exploited, but African traditional religion certainly didn't go into a decline or undergo huge modifications like was seen in the African diaspora and the development of...
When I was very young (10 years or so) I met Wade Davis with my father in Haiti when he was doing the research that would eventually become this book. This was when he was trying to find someone to act as a guide. My father speaks English as well as French, but since he wasn't from Haiti his...