African Sand Paintings by Racine
Fitaurari
raci...@aol.com (voodoo demoniac) wrote:
< Now, before the obvious objections are raised, I know that
< Navajo land is nowhere near Haiti. BUT - there are other
< Native American groups who also do "sand painting" type
< things, and this is NOT done in Africa.
vert...@erols.com (Patrice Backer) wrote:
+ I beg to differ. Many rites in Eastern Ghana involve "sand
+ painting" very similar to the verves, down to the motifs and
+ the rituals used to draw them.
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raci...@aol.com
>raci...@aol.com (voodoo demoniac) wrote:
>
>< Now, before the obvious objections are raised, I know that
>< Navajo land is nowhere near Haiti. BUT - there are other
>< Native American groups who also do "sand painting" type
>< things, and this is NOT done in Africa.
>
>
>vert...@erols.com (Patrice Backer) wrote:
>
>+ I beg to differ. Many rites in Eastern Ghana involve "sand
>+ painting" very similar to the verves, down to the motifs and
>+ the rituals used to draw them.
For the unsuspecting public, this is a forward from the newsgroup
soc.culture.haiti, on the topic of "survivances amerindiennes".
We were discussing "vevers", a type of insignia drawn on the
ground with cornmeal during some Vodou ceremonies. This
individual, vert...@erols.com, was nice enough to tell me this, and
send me a bibliography and some other information by prvate email.
I'm SO excited - and, although the intellectual subtlety of what I'm
about to say may elude Fitaurari, I'm also a bit surprised. Ghanians
of the diaspora were taken mostly to Jamaica, and the ancestors
of modern Haitians were mostly from the French colonies of Africa,
so I wouldn't expect to find a Ghanian tradition in Vodou. It's just
delightful when I can find yet another link between the Afro-Caribbean
diaspora and the religions of the African continent!
Mambo Racine Sans But
The VODOU Page - http://members.aol.com/racine125/index.html
Richard Yates
does this mean that we wont see anymore vodou posts here?
or does it mean crossposts to come?
peace and blessings
ras richard i