Divine horsemen : the living gods of Haiti
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TextSeries: (Myth and man)London/New York Thames and Hudson c1953Description: x, 350p.; ill.; appendices; notes; glossary; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type: - text
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1 The trinity: les morts, les mysteres, et les marassa. 2 Les serviteurs. 3 The divine horesemen. 4 Houngan, hierarchy and hounfor. 5 The rites. 6 Drums and dance. 7 The white darkness. Appendix A - Notes on two marriages with voudoun loa. Appendix B - Some elements of Arawakan, Carib and other Indian cultures in Haitian Voudoun. Glossary of Creole terms referring to Voudoun
'Miss Deren has performed the feat of delineating the Haitian cult of Voudoun, not anthropologically--as a "relic of primeval ignorance and archaic speculation" (S.Hartland)--but as an experienced and comprehended initiation into the mysteries of man's harmony within himself and with the cosmic process....' --Editor's foreword
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