IS VODU "SATAN"?

NOTE : I AM A FRENCH-SPEAKING STUDENT IN ECONOMICS. ENGLISH IS OUR SECOND LANGUAGE. I DO MY BEST TO TRANSLATE THIS TEXT FROM FRENCH TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES.

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French 

NB: MAWU in the article meaning Unsurpassed in EWE, is the Supreme Being in vodu cosmogony . The word "Satan" is used by analogy to the concept of Satan in the abrahamic religions since SATAN DOES NOT EXIST in vodu cosmogony. You may also need Terminology of Voduism to understand   the article.

Everything is relativity. We can not understand any reality by excluding it from its CONTEXT. All religions exist for a common reason: to fight against the forces of evil. Nothing has shown us that there is only one force of evil that undermines the whole universe. The abrahamic religions speak of a Satan competing with MAWU, which seeks to destroy the works of MAWU we are. In this case, the approach is Manichean where good is necessarily opposed to evil. In a vodouic environment, good and evil are not necessarily opposed because ALL THAT IS GOOD CAN HURT. In this context, we can talk about witchcraft, which allowed people to become stars, becomes an instrument of destruction in a very competitive environment. Other voduïds of Zoka type , which allowed people to escape an ambush, become dangerous instruments in the hands of a blood thirsty person. Since all these forces are both force of good and evil, there must be a MANAGER that controls the use of these voduïds in society. Without that manager, the evil people can kill without impunity and defenseless people will die innocently. This manager that ensures the WELFARE of society by preventing the arbitrary use of Zokas and witchcraft has a name: VODU.

• DEVIL: definition

Devil is not a spirit or a complete whole that seeks to kill humans remaining invisible. If it were the case, we would all be killed without having had time to see it coming. So what is the devil? Is considered  devil or evil, any INDIVIDUAL who, after he had master one or more forces of the nature, decides to use them to harm people at A PARTICULAR TIME. The devil is a human being who decides to hurt another human, at a specific time and for a reason. The devil is the one who sits next to you, it may be your father, your mother, your aunt, sister / brother, friend, husband / wife. .. it is not a spirit somewhere! because the spirits are ALWAYS controlled by humans. That's why we say in voduism that : "MAWU gave us power over the spirits". It is to us, Human Beings, that MAWU gave the key of the universe as we controll ALL the spirits in the world.

When I made the classification of voduïds in the article Understanding the African sipirituality, a sister asked me a pertinent question: "Where is the place of Human in all this?". Here is the answer. Human is above ALL voduïds in the sense that it is the human who commands spirits NOT to say human is STRONGER!

Place of Human between voduïds

• The malignant spirit : 

- The sorcerer

  Witchcraft is to sign a pact knowingly or unknowingly with Absolute Power to use this power ad libitum. How a sorcerer operates? According to the testimony of witches who were caught by the Alafia Vodu : When a sorcerer wants to kill someone, he watches that person day and night without rest. He expects that the person to fall into any weakness: weakness may be the acool, women, men, excessive thirst for money, anything that causes man to lose control of his life. And it is this weakness that will permit the sorcerer to take people's minds. And when the sorcerer takes someone's mind, it does not kill the person immediately but the person gets sick. He waits to see if the person or his family will see a VODU because it is able to take back the stolen spirit from sorcerer and heal the sick body. VODU has power over witches;VODU is the only religious entity that has power over the rest of the voduïds of voduism. Let's continue: If relatives do  not go to see the VODU then sorcerer eats stolen mind and the person dies. But when the person will see VODU, she is saved. Alafia is a Vodou internationally renowned and highly specialized in the field of witches. In case the wizard eat mind before the intervention of Vodou, it happens a particular phenomenon: the Vodou catches the wizard and begin to torture him until the sorcerer has confessed all his crimes. Most wizards caught confessed how EASY it is for them to eat the minds in Christian places of worship, for example. Wizards pretend to convert to Christianity to attack easy prey. The sorcerer is too afraid of Vodou while he feels no fear to go into a church; I remember those church bells that provide shelter for sorcerer birds. Many wizards go to hide themselves in churches so that people cannot suspect them of witchcraft. This is why Vodounons recommend VIGILANCE to voodoo adepts because the enemy does not sleep. Anyone who wants to hurt you is that DEVIL THAT NEVER SLEEPS  and seek your weak point to attack you.

     - The Bo or Zoka

I even said once these voduïds are designed for defense purposes. In situations of jealousy, envy, competition, these voduïds are diverted to evil goals by INDIVIDUALS. These types of voduïd are very common in men. If you're a beautiful woman, you are very rich, very popular, shiny ... jealous can use these voduïds to make you sick, crazy or outright kill you if you do not have the protection of a VODU. But they also do not attack the vigilant people because they know that the Vodou can take or catch them. To do this, they await their "prey" until the person falls into a moment of weakness like being drunk or drugged. There they can make him commit a crime unintentionally and it is definitely jailed for example. That is why the adepts of Alafia, pray two to three times per week to protect themselves from these evil people. Vodou is the enemy of those who use these spirits to do harm. Without Vodou, people would kill without fear and the whole society will collapse. Societies that do not have Vodou are those where evil individuals are kings.

I remember this Zokato (who uses Zoka) that Vodou Alafia caught because he had killed people. The holy water of Vodou has been used out to destroy his Zokas : They simply spread holy water of Vodou, called "aflasi" on his Zokas and everything went up in smoke! The holy water has an extraordinary power and I suspect the notion of holy water to be of African origin. In many voodoo, there is the notion of "SARA" or "SALA" which is to do good to people or giving gifts to strangers: this notion is found in Islam! But this voodoo Alafia (and others) comes from the Hausa, a strongly Muslim people today who had a lot of "exchanges" with Arab-Muslim countries. The adepts of that Vodu do not eat pork, do not consume alcohol during the pray etc ... The same voodoo has similarities with chritianity on "communion: cola and holy water by analogy in the holy bread and wine ", the signs marked on the body of followers after the prayer with a white substance, are the same points of a crucifix ... The world is deep.

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    -The necessity of Vodou

Each society has its measures. MAWU even know why we are born in Africa rather than in Europe or America. He alone knows why you're born black rather than white. He knows why you were born in an environment of voduism rather than Islamic. The willingness of witches and evil people is to see Vodou disappear to commit crimes of all kinds and undermine society. Pastors, miracle workers, often use the Vodou in their places of worship to protect adepts from witches. They also use voodoo to heal people: I'm not against this practice because it is in vodu philosophy. But other pastors also use witchcraft and other voduïds against their own members! vigilance. Unwary children who taught to have received "jesus" and who dared to break the "REAL" voodoo of their parents are crazy today because they destroyed their own protection and have become easy prey for the devil.

The FA, language and Vodou Scriptures, can expose these criminals of society to ensure its welfare . People are very concerned about the Vodou because those who will swear on a "holy book" and lie, are unable to LIE to the Vodou. If they do so, the Fa will denounce them. If Fa does not, the ordeal will catch without fail. In reality, people are fleeing the Vodou, not because they believe it is evil, but rather, they want to be free to do evil in society. The whole campaign against Vodu is a work of evil spirits, witches and all those who want to undermine our society.

I will conclude with these words: VODU is the only guarantor of good morality and justice in our African societies even in the world as it effictively fights against the evil  individuals and prevent arbitrary use of the forces of nature. The spirit of evil, the devil and other considerations are very relative concepts as they are applied to more INDIVIDUALS we meet every day rather than spirits that  are managed by Human through power he takes from MAWU.

ONLY EVIL PEOPLE, THE WITCHES, THE BAD SPIRITS, HATE VODU. This is exactly devil who speaks bad of Vodu since Vodou is a nightmare for them. It is easily understood why VO-DU means "free society", "get society comfortable" because VODU is the only entity that guarantees WELLNESS society.


Tsetula TSAGLI

POLYGAMY : A VODUIST VALUE ?

NOTE : I AM A FRENCH-SPEAKING STUDENT IN ECONOMICS. ENGLISH IS OUR SECOND LANGUAGE. I DO MY BEST TO TRANSLATE THIS TEXT FROM FRENCH TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES.
(You can send corrections to vozkoffi@gmail.com)

Zuma and his wives

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When we speak of African civilizations, many think that we make a blind defense of "traditional" values. Others see in our writings a blind call for a return to retrograde values, ​​incompatible with an evoluating world, which would pull our new "civilized" societies back. They think that the "outdated" traditional values ​​can not be used in an evoluated society or have no place in a westernized civilization. There are some truth in these observations because we should be happy to return to ancient values ​​in a single view to regain our authenticity. The true values all ​​of our african societies are not perfect! they are not all outdated either! Which of our values ​​have pulled our socities down? We will discuss the case of polygamy, which is a CANCER of our societies.

Men will freak out here. Polygamy has been the source of many of our problems in Black Africa. It is a pride for a man to have many women undoubtedly because men who had many wives are highly respected since it reinforces his status of Grand man among men.

Advantages

 Men had many children to have labor for agriculture and ensure security. The high number of women ensured marketing of agricultural products. Polygamy prevent Blacks from extermination over the Arab-Islamic and European slavery ...

Disadvantages

• Hate in the family

Let us face the fact : Co-spouses (rivals) don't and will never love one another. No one is happy to share his/her spouse with another person, man or woman. Worse, these women often live in the same house where the atmosphere is unbearable. Quarrels are so intense that it is difficult for children from different mothers ( but of the same father) to be in good terms : do not even ask them to love one another : it is impossible! The husband in those situations, can never contain that hate which is destroying his house. He can try to manage the situation but really he is POWERLESS. No man is able to love two women in the same way because there is always a woman X that the husband treat better than the others. And when a husband has no more feelings for one of his wives, it is difficult for him to take care of children of the said woman for he has trouble dealing with that particular woman. Children suffer a lot when their mother doesn't have money to take care of them. While some of the children languish in poverty others have a high class life style. Some children go far in their studies while others will not. The great power of the husband in our african society allows him to get his wife out  without justification: in addition, a woman thrown out by her husband, is always a subject of mockery. This reality makes some women prefer a collapsing mariage rather than leaving it.

• Influence of family

In addition to the previous hard problems, influence of the husband's family must be taken into account. Husband's sisters, "rivals" of their brother's wife, don't make life easy for wives in the family house. After husband's sisters, we have mother-in law, very powerfull in these situations. She can ask his son to "push" his wife out. Men are also influenced by their brothers (other husbands of  the wife according to tradition) who can make a monogamous man become polygamous.

So if we summarize the situation wife as follow:
-She competes with other women
-She lives with her rivals
-She lives under the threat of her sisters-in-law
-She lives under the pressure of her mother-in-law
-She must also cajole her husband's brothers
-She must respect her father-in-law
-Her children compete with other children
-Her husband can get her out anytime
-She largely bear her children's charges.
-Her life and the happiness of her children depend on the love that her husband devotes to her.
-As soon as the polygamous husband stop loving her, her life is ruined.

• Consequences:

 Taking into account the unbearable atmosphere in which wives live and the precariousness of their destiny, some of them use unconventional methods to keep their husbands: "Gbontémi" the zokas ...

To be competitive, some women use witchcraft. That's why witchcraft is widespread in women community. In fact, by survival instinct in a polygamous society too coercitive, wives need protect their lives and children by using particular voduïds. The introduction of witchcraft in this story of polygamy, destroys many things : Intelligent children are murdered or made mad by rivals of their mother; many children leave the family house forever . Let'us add that not only women can bring the occult forces into the house: children, who inherit rivalry of their mothers may use these occult forces to kill, get sick, crazy other members of the family..... In short, the family house has become a hell for children and their mothers. The trauma generated by such a situation makes some children never return home! others children no longer see their father till their death because he didn't take care of them. Some children refuse to pay for care of their sick father, others will not go to the funeral of their father. We do not blame those children because no one knows how they were traumatized by this destructive atmosphere of the family house. Can you imagine that some kids don't know their grandfather (or grand mother) because their parents have never bring them home as revenge? Victims of family war, never accept to replace their voodoo priest father. a child who is affected by the witchcraft is likely to reject voodoo that has nothing to do with witchcraft! He prefers to be a christian or a muslim in reaction to the trauma. This explains why some children refuse to take care of a voduist father.

If the family father has left an important heritage, war will get worse. Mothers on one side, children at the other, ready for the general war. All of the family properties are sold and the income is always unfairly shared. The family house, sometimes is occupied by the husband's family, very present in the whole process of share. Some wives are fired from their housee by the husband's family.
Other members of some families who become rich, refuse to deal with children who have the same family name like them ... if we add the other brothers of the father-in-law and his descendants, problems can be multiplied by thousand ! 

Polygamy has had a negative influence on tradition transmition ​​from generation to generation. It has had a destructive effect on the preservation of our traditions and customs which are rejected by children too traumatized by witchcraft and Zokas (Cf: elemenet basic concept vodouisme)

Africans values are diferent from european ones

Proposed solution :

What does Vodouism say ? King Agbanon II of Glidzi has written in "History of Little Popo and  Guin's Kingdom":

"Mawu (God) created Segbo-Lissa and Anana-Bliku followed by Gu and Legba. The first two, Lissa and Anana's mission was to give birth to other deities; enven though Segbo-Lissa was a male, Anana-Bliku had no sex; How will they manage to have children then ? They went to see the two messengers of Mawu with their problem: Legba and Gu who, after reflection, came to an agreement; the first Gu, must make the incision generator of female sex and the second Legba msut give the sex power of procreation. Hence Sakpate and Heviesso,Tokpadoun and Dan were born. Mawu congratulated those two messengers of their initiative and gave them a place of honor among all the deities. This is the origin of all the inhabitants of the earth.But Tokpadoun the wife of Heviesso, was assiduously courted by his brother Sakpatè. This created a big rivalry between them. So, in anger, Heviesso broke away from the earth to go to heaven . The sky as we see it today is a construction made by Heviesso. Dan settled therefore between the two rivals in atmosphbre to continue to play a treacherous role. Fighting still continues today. When Dan is with the terrible Heviesso, it is seen as a bright snake (flash) encouraging thunder or lightning to destroy the earth. When, on the opposite, Dan serves Sakpatè, she is felt, wavy and invisible in the wind preventing rain to fall. "

Note: This is a MYTHOLOGY, created by the human imagination, to define a hierarchy of vodu! In reality, there is no such hierarchy:  But make no mistake, the only scriptures that exist in the voduism are FA. And no one has claimed that the FA has fallen from the sky. The purpose of having a hierarchy of vodus is to be able to make ceremonies to all vodus in a single Vodu place : So or Hevieso  until today. The only energy that unites vodu is MAWU. I could tell immediately that vodu are monogamous. But this mythology shows the existence of prowl even in vodu. For this, there is no vodu POLYGYNOUS.

The lesson:

 Remove polygamy! men will never be faithful to their wives, it is known: but please, do children with a woman ONLY! This will reduce CONSIDERABLY many problems. We are not talking of a law prohibiting polygamy but a true culture of monogamy. Let me explain: There is no law prohibiting polygamy which can prevent a man to divorce. A man who took another wife after divorce is a polygamist! If he divorces several times, the same effects noted above, will happen again and nothing will change. The cultural revolution must be to have espected positive effects. Even a man who choose to BE polygamist, must make effort to build A HOUSE to each woman, it also reduces the problems without eliminating them. NEVER KEEP A WOMAN IN A FAMILY HOUSE! The man should never allow his family to interfere in the problems of his home: Whatever happens! A man must know how to manage his own mother in order to not leave his wife to her mercy : Mothers are possessive and will always be jealous of the wife of their son. Man must understand that he is a private property of his mother and he can not manage any conflict between his mother and his wife since HE HAS NO POWER!

In return, the woman will have a heavy responsibility to provide a good home for her husband so that he will not be obliged to go elsewhere! Women have the power: What she wants is what MAWU wants. The emancipation of women is good for women to work and have the same wages as men. Education of women today an invaluable advantage for the education of children in our society. An independent woman is more attractive. However, if the woman does not offer a good home to her husband, polygamy will still raging in our society regardless the laws voted against it.

Tsetula TSAGLI

POWER OF WITCHCRAFT OVER THE WORLD

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All religions in the world have and will always have followers because each adept finds its account in one way or another. Whether Brahmin, Buddhist, Voduist, Indouiste, Orthodox, or Murid ... if he stays in his religion, it is because he felt miracles occuring in his life! However, some religions say that other religions are false, evil and worthless. Therefore,why on each side, everyone has his miracle? Are we sure that if a religion is actually worthless, people would have stayed just for fun? Or all religions are true, or there is another phenomenon that is beyond our understanding: Which one?

Note: It may be helpful for the reader to refer to the basic elements of the concept Voduism to understand this article.

Witchcraft: autopsy

  Many of my readers have told me: "Voodoo does not exist in my country", but they recognize the existence of witchcraft there. But witchcraft is a specific voduïd exists almost everywhere in the world. Voduism exists wherever there is witchcraft even if you do not see any voodoo! When we speak of witchcraft, people think only as an evil force that kills because it is the most common misconception about it. Those who believe are not wrong because in Africa, the majority of witches engage well in this exercise to detriment of other facets of the same power. It is therefore justified that the reader asks the question: "What is really witchcraft"?If there is a philosophy that sums witchcraft and many other realities in Voduism is that:

 All that is good can hurt.

Kindoki in Congo or Aze in Togo, different names are used to describe the same reality of witchcraft. After my research on all voduïds, witchcraft remains the most formidable because it combines the natural power entrusted by God to each individual and the pact with Absolute Power which fair and accurate description is difficult to make. There are several types of wizards who have entered into various agreements with the Absolute Power. Each concludes his pact with the Absolute Power as needed. Needs in Europe are very different from needs in Africa as well as the needs of a pastor, anxious to perform miracles, are different from the needs of a scientist. A music or football star will never enter into the same agreement as a terrorist because both of them will not make the same use of that power.

Use of witchcraft

Science, music, football, business, religion, government ... there is NONE of those areas where witchcraft is not used! When a trader uses to grow its business, an assassin use it to quench his thirst for blood. At the same time a scientist uses witchcraft to understand the truths behind a tangible reality, a footballer use it to reach a big club or make a name. When a chemist uses witchcraft to find its formula, a physicist will use it for the same purpose.

The science:

People think this is scientific Essort is only output of  simple intelligence of human beings. We are always told the one who discovered what, but we never know in what circunstance he did it or how he did it. Note also that most of the scientific properties which are demontrated (really??) as the telephone, for example, were widely used by our ancestors who did not call it phone! Many other realities such as teleportation, talk to the dead, the "natural"cons-balls  and other realities can be studied "objectively" by African scientists while there is still time if not, we should not be surprised that one day , European land with a "phone to call the dead" or "teleportation coffin" or Wi-fi cons-balls! White uses a lot of witchcraft in science and those who were lucky enough to live near some old have propabely heard them treat science as "witchcraft of the white man."

The arts and music:

Many sing, but very few become stars! Why? Most of them have signed pacts with the Absolute Power that pushes them to the top. No matter what the person sings, everyone will love. You'll even notice that the music that is popular is the most mundane possible while other musicians try hard to make quality music and you do not even look at them. How a clip made using a mobile phone has 1 million views on Youtube  while clips made  in good and due form have only 10,000 views?

The same situation is observed in football where great players have no club while initially means players  become stars at the end even without having won a title! It is said that some players have a sense of scoring, have the gift of football, are geniuses of football ... but nobody knows what they use to work hard to get there.

People paint, but some drawing have remained legendary and we still do not know why!

The field of business

Some new products on the market are sold faster than others but they are not of a so good quality. Two traders never have the same turnover, and it is a fact, but when two merchants selling the same product, side by side, record an unimaginable delay of sales, we must ask ourselves some questions. In the same company, bank, state administration, some climb the echelons faster than others. Some have high support but others, without support, climb more easily even if they are not great hard workers. Witchcraft is not absent in all this.

The field of religion

Who does not know the "man of god" who like to do miracles? They even make programs of miracles that will take place and takes care to show them on television for advertising. Apart from setting scenes, false testimony or false miracles (we never saw one of those "miracledoers" multiply bread or turn water into wine!), Many of those miracle "stars" use witchcraft : One to have two clients and two toperform miracles (real here): The followers see their wishes fulfilled but the power that made this work is witchcraft. While claiming to worship God, they are followers of witchcraft!

Politics doesn't make exception to the rule including presidents for life, rebels and politicians eager to climb to power ...

When does witchcraft become harmful?

Competition:

  The afore-mentioned areas are very influenced by the spirit of competition where competition is so fierce at a point that many feel the need for a supernatural force. Some people can take refuge in religions but for others, it may be occult forces or witchcraft. When a footballer realizes that he may stay on bench for another more qualified, the use of witchcraft will cause injury to the  "barriers player" to allow the other envious witch to play . In the case of  a company or a bank ... the use of witchcraft will sicken, will make remove, even kill a competitor or higher to access his place. In the field of music, competition can bring a wizard to kill another artist to no longer have competition.

Jealousy:

In a home with several women for one man, jealousy is something obvious and often leads women to misuse of witchcraft. In this case, if a single woman who uses witchcraft, it can kill other women that husband loves more than her, kill children from other women who are smarter than hers or radically kill husband to end the problems. If they are many to use witchcraft in the same house, it is doomed to destruction because the damage will be of big size. A conflict between wizards can affect their progenies.

Cruelty:

  There are people who naturally have a penchant for evil. They are happy when they see blood flow or when they see people crying, such individuals enjoy the misfortune of others and do not like to spread joy around them. When they fall on witchcraft, the world is in danger because they are unambitious and their natural predisposition to hurt has taken over their souls. These are the types of individuals that Kenyans kill without mercy (Video below: Sensitive souls refrain).

CONCLUSION

I do not know if the other religions have talked about the natural power of every individual but in Voduism it is clearly stated that God has given power to each individual. While some individuals resort to supernatural forces to work miracles, others do naturally. Some people are naturally so strong that no power overcomes them! Others received an extraordinary intelligence from God and use it to their liking. These are not all those who are brilliant on earth who use witchcraft but today many are using witchcraft to do good or evil. Many famous artists have died young or died of sudden death when we know that those who enter into pacts with Absolute Powers pay for services with their lives. The research also showed that witches live in community as sects and we know that our world is governed by several highly organized sects who make important decisions about the future of the world.

Witchcraft is as old as the world and never disapear whatever efforts to oust him.

Tsetula TSAGLI

POVERTY, PROSELITYSM AND VODU

IS IT NECESSARY TO PREACH THE VODU?

 Français

   "All those who do not believe our kponlis, we will burn them;  those who refuse to recognize the FA as the only messenger of Mawu will be exterminated since it is Mawu Himself who sent us this message to spread in the world because voduism it is the only religion that He has chosen, " this is the kind of sentence that goes through the mind of the reader when he reads the title of this article, because two of the abrahamic religions have accustomed us to this kind of scenarios namely, spread their beliefs by FORCE. Burn "pagan", kill "unbelievers", exterminate "infidels", euthanise scientists, excommunicate "discidents" ... in the name of God (?), is the picture of all the crimes against humanity committed in the name of God. In vodu cosmogony, it is specified that the Fa is the ONLY messenger of God, but why voduists have not used this message to go attack other peaceful people?

Voduism: monotheism or polytheism?

A very popular idea that was the basis of degradation of vodu is that the existence of several vodu would mean polytheism. But in voduism, there is only One God called MAWU and this name is never used in the plural. In addition, the word Vodu is distinct from Mawu and never was it known by a vodu "Mawuvi" or "mawu" to say "little god". The two words are distinct shows that they refer to two distinct realities. So, if we take the case of European settlers for example, we see that the word God is used to refer to the Supreme Divinity and earthly deities as well. Worse, the word "God" comes from "deus" which has a Greek root "Zeus". So we can conclude that these European were real polytheists and, having noticed the existence of several vodu in Africa, concluded that it was polytheism: In truth, these European, true polytheists have only TRANSPOSED their own polytheism on Africa because the resemblance between the voduism and their beliefs are enormous. This conclusion on the voduism as polytheism was political because they knew very well the reality: Leopold II, King of the Belgians writes on January 12, 1883: "The purpose of your mission is not to teach blacks to know God; they already know Him from their ancestors. They speak and submit to Nzambi-Mpungu; Mvidi Mukulu; Mungu etc ... "The imperialists know that we know God before their arrival.Voduism is a monotheistic religion for the existence of a single MAWU, not represented and too holy to be worshiped.

Note: Personally, I wish the voduism is polytheistic: This would change NOTHING in the credibility of the religion because nobody has been able to show the existence of one God to demand proof of the existence of several Gods! Shows me that there is one God, and I will demonstrate you the existence of several.

Voduism and proselytism:

A very singular reality in abrahamic religions is that you must be adept before asking something to their prophets. When you want any blessing in these religions, you must be or become full member. But in voduism, you do not need to believe in vodu before you get help from him. Often people come to see the vodu when they are in difficulties. It goes without saying that an adept of an abrahamic religion can seek the help of vodu and after returning to his religion without problem. No vodu priest began to preach his vodu to attract "customers" by pretextig that vodu is the "only way" access to God since who says voduism also says immensity of God and recognition of several pathways to God. That's why voduists are very open to other religions. If today we are forced to write about vodu, it is because the abrahamic religions have cataloged vodu in Satanism. Vodu has never needed publicity for all vodunons trust their vodu. And when you go see a vodu, you will do a promise! if you've got what you want, you come to honor your promises, otherwise, nobody holds you. In vodu, ONLY WHO IS SATISFIED HONOURS HIS PROMISES!!

Voduism and poverty:

"Blessed are the poor for they shall go to heaven" does not exist in voduism because PARADISE does not exist in the voduism.  Everything is continuous, linear and pragmatic in voduism.  Cults or ceremonies are EXPENSIVE in vodu: no poor can venture going in vodu ceremonies. This is a weak point of voduism because it is not accessible to the poor! Radical as it may seem, voduism became, knowingly or unknowingly, a religion for HIGH CLASS! The poor are forced to fight for a lot of money if they wish to make vodu ceremonies. People can even live in a house of vodu without offering sacrifices worthy of the name to voodoo. So by its very essence, voduism abhors poverty. Nobody is supposed to live in poverty according to voduism.  This has worked against voodoo because after Arab and European colonization where settlers killed to impose their religions, the lower class is directed to the abrahamic religions which glorify poverty and who are in their means. In addition to these religions like distributing food and aid to the poor to attract them so everything came together to attack the voodoo religion of the "high class". These cheap abrahamic religions who erected poverty to rank of blessing and promise a paradise where people eat without working coincide well with the dreams of the poor and lazy. We see here that the religious colonization played a gruesome role in the delay of Africa because these religions have created the CULT OF THE SLOTH AND POVERTY.

The world needs to learn from voduism not for people to abandon their beliefs to voduism but to be tolerant and recognize that there may be other means of access to God. In addition, abrahamic religions must stop distorting the Africans away their true names and cover them with insane names not to mention the abolition  of laziness and poverty cult.

Voduism had and will never need to advertise; for any religion that respects itself does not need to go attacking peaceful people to spread his message. God has never asked to kill in his name. Every nation in the world has the right to have access to God's way and has NO debt to any alleged elected people to undergo abuse because of "infidelity". Like Buddhism, the voduists have understood the importance of peace for religious coexistence in this world. I think the voodoo cults that cost already very expensive will not stoop to trying to please the masses as vodounons not feel in competition with any religion. Some accuse us of proselytizing: If you are pleased in voodoo, you are welcome! otherwise you must look for some advocacy of poverty and lazyness because OUR FIGHT IS TO RESTORE THE TRUTH ON VODUISM AND NOT FOR PROSELYTIZING.

Tsetula TSAGLI

WOMAN'S VALUE IN VODU

WHAT IS THE PLACE OF WOMAN IN VODUISM ? 

French Version

MAWU (God) provides the black man in general and  voduist man particularly with an imposing sexual orgarn enabling him to satify women fully. No woman in the world has so far  questioned the potency of the black man as his explosiveness and his performance in bed are well documented. Sure he can be blamed for lack of affection, but the black man is more rigor fulfilling his conjugal duty rather than frioritures surrounding. We often hear our grandmothers say in Ewe "Nusu be vi Adeke me li o" which means "there is no little man" a sign that the black man does not joke with the sexual act, no matter how small he is! All this to say that the black man does not suffer from any inferiority complex in front of the woman to have recourse to God in order to usurp a place of "higher" in society. Moreover, in voduism, there is no notion of equality or inequality between men and women, and the approach is rather a complementary approach because many vodus as SO or TRON are " married "and have the same worship.

A woman can aspire to the priesthood in the voduism?
Does women have the obligation to submit theirselves to the man in the voduism?
What is the real power of women in the voduism?


Priesthood in vodouisme:

The priesthood exists in all Abrahamic religions, but the peculiarity of this function is that it is only for men in those religions. No woman has the right to aspire to be priestess, quarry, bishop cardianal, imam, or rabbi as these titles are reserved exclusively for men! Is it not a disguised way to Semitic men hide their LEGENDARY IMPOTENCE ?
Anyway, in the voduism, women have every right to be ordained priestesses with unrestricted freedom or other constraints. It remains the only one making decisions as long as she lives in her position. His status as a woman even strengthens the respect dedicated to his job.

Two vodu priestesses 

Some voodoo have only  priestesses! No man has the right to govern these voodoo there. We are talking about voodoo like SOVI and Tchaba ... The case Tchaba strengthens the position of women in voduism is that a child can only be adept Tchaba of HER MOTHER. To my knowledge, there is no voodoo whose priesthood is reserved exclusively for men as we have just seen the voodoo that the priesthood is exclusively for women! Finally let's say that men can be adepts or enter the convent in the same way as women.

 A woman, an inferior?

Note that the holy scriptures of voduism did not mention such a fact of submission or inferiority of women to men as a will of  MAWU or voodoo. No dou  of FA has relegated women to a lower status.
The woman can dress as she wants but it must be decent. She is free to get in bikini, wearing the world's sexiest clothes and make it beautiful as it désire. She has the right to have a driving license and have her own car. It is even recommended her anything that can show her femininity and beauty. Voodoo women adepts (vodusi) make ceremonies with their breasts in the air. Wearing bra is often prohibited in certain places of worship. Women can go out alone without being accompanied.

It is true that often, it is recommended that women not counter the power of man or outright to submit to the authority of the man. However, this was never the WILL of MAWU! it is an advice given to women because of the phallocrate nature of men (admittedly) very macho in our societies: Is it not a sign of excessive masculinity?
In short, men and women complement each other in the voduism. They do not suffer any restriction of liberty or dress requirements in voduism.


The power of women:

I've emphasized the paramount influence of the voodoo culture of his environment. I gave as an example the case of Ewe culture. I say that in a voduist socity, there is always a latent matriacat. I take the case of voodoo Tchaba who has his adepts on the maternal side. But there is deeper in the sense that the word of the mother becomes divine word. The voduist society is indifferent about a child who disobeys his father when it is hostile to disobedience towards the mother. "Do not get cursed by your mother because you'll find misfortune certainly" have we used to hear. The word of the mother has the same power as the word of God. The woman has the unifying power in our society: children of the same father are often less supportive of children from the same mother because her children recognize this undeniable power which she holds from God. Finally, what the woman wants, it is God who wants.
However, excision is bad and  menstruation of women is frowned. A woman who has her menstruation does not cook her husband under voodoo alafia example. There are ceremonies that are reserved only for postmenopausal women because blood from menstruation is considered impure. Other cults are the prerogative of virgins.


CONCLUSION

Woman in voduism has the same rights as a man since she can attain positions of the priesthood in the same way as a man. It is never considered inferior and society recognizes her some divine power. But we will not increase the cost of real images of women dominated in socitété due to the machismo of men too macho to meet that reserve valuable space MAWU gives women.
Still there are a lot of voodoo priestesses and everyone fears the curse of his mother.

Tsetula TSAGLI