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Informational
pages
The
Vodou page by Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen, is a very informative
site with an abundance of helpful information.
http://www.geocities.com/ozziesdominicanvoodun/index.html
- Voudou as it's practiced in the Dominican Republic
http://www.swagga.com/voodoo.htm
- A good overview of Voudou
http://egallery.com/flags/
- A gallery of Haitian Voudou flags
Vodoun
Culture - this site is a wealth of information, as well as having an
almost most painfully comprehensive list of loas/lwas
http://www.religioustolerance.org/voodoo.htm
- religioustolerance.org's site on Voudou.
http://www.hermetics.org/afro.html
- a good site with information on both Voudou and Santeria
http://www.MamiWata.com/
- a site on West African Dahomean Vodoun
Online
Groups and Discussion Groups
7AfricanPowers
for those who are interested in learning or sharing knowledge about
Afro-centric religions.
Carrefour
Santeria
- discussion of the Afro-Cuban Regla de Ocha
tristatevodou
- This group is dedicated to the practice of Vodou in the NY/NJ/CT
Tristate Area
The
American Voodoo forum- Moderated by the folks at Houmfort d'Ogoun out
in West Virginia
Voudou_UK
- A yahoo group for those in the UK interested in Voudou.
Tristate
Voodoo - A yahoo group 'dedicated to the practice of Vodou in the NY/NJ/CT
Tristate Area.'
Books
(all book links
go to amazon.com for no particular reason, although you should be able
to find these books at the bookstore of your choice)
Vodou
Visions: An Encounter With Divine Mystery - by Sallie Ann Glassman,
is a great book on various loa offerings, their sacred days, veves, favorite
The
Book of Vodou: Charms and Rituals to Empower Your Life - by Leah Gordonfoods,
etc.
Voodoo:
Search for the Spirit (Discoveries) - by Laennec Hurbon, Lory Frankel
Voodoo
in Haiti - by Alfred Metraux, Hugo Charteris, Sidney W. Mintz
Tell
My Horse : Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica - by Zora Neale Hurston,
Ishmael Reed
Secrets
of Voodoo - by Milo Regaud
Divine
Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti - by Maya Deren
Mama
Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Updated and Expanded Edition (Comparative
Studies in Religion and Society) - by Karen McCarthy Brown
Island
Possessed - by Katherine Dunham, Katerine Dunham
Sacred
Arts of Haitian Voodoo - by Donald Cosentino
Sacred
Possessions: Voodoo, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean - by Margarite
Fernandez Olmos
Oya:
In Praise of the Goddess - by Judith Gleason
Media
An article
in the Miami Herald about Voodoo.
The
Voodoo Server - Nandotimes' archives on Afro-Caribbean religions
Peristyles
http://www.vodou.org/
- The Temple of Yehwe is a Voudou based temple run by Max Beauvoir
located in Plainview, New York.
Le
peristyle Hatian Sanctuary - Gro Mambo Angélá Noványón
idizol's peristyle located in Philadelphia, PA
Voodoo
Spiritual Temple - Priestess Miriam's temple located in New Orleans
Online
Botanicas
Botanica Santa Barbara
Chango Tiembra Ba Congo
8743 Cooper Rd Alexandria
VA 22309-3906
703-780-1212
Santa Barbara Botanica (Santero Owned
and Operated!)
403 South Lopez
New Orleans,LA.
[on the corner of Banks and Lopez]
504-821-8898
Santa Barbara will also stock Vodou,Hoodoo,Spiritist and Wiccan/Pagan
wares in addition to having an Italero available for
Dilogun readings.
Botanica
Elegua in Houston Texas
Botanica
Santa Barbara Chango Tiembra Ba Congo in Virginia
Botanica
Yoruba in San Fransisco
Obiexu
BotanicaBotanica
Yemaya, in New York City
Botanica
Oni Oni in Miami, FL (en espanol)
Island
of Salvation Botanica in New Orleans - Owned by Mambo Sallie Ann Glassman,
creator of the New
Orleans Voodoo Tarot. They offer libation bottles and candles hand
painted by Sallie herself.
La
Botanica in Amsterdam
Santeria
Links
Santeria
(also known as Regla de Ocha, La Regla Lucumi, Lukumi, Macumba, Candomble)
is a syncretistic Caribbean religion. Some see it as a 'sister' path that
compliments Voudou, and I've met many people that have both Voudou loa
and Santeria orisha in their pantheon.
lucumi-online
· Santeria La Religion Lucumi
http://www.religioustolerance.org/santeri.htm
- religioustolerance.org's site on Santeria. Very informative.
OrishaNet
- Dedicated to being an accurate source of information on La Regla Lucumí
for those learning the religion and other interested parties.
Collegiate
Source/Reference
This is essentially a collection of
dispassionate links by people that have done educational research on both
Haiti, Voodoo and Santeria
Mary
Ann Clark, a religious studies scholar, has a collection of her studies
of Santeria online
http://sparta.rice.edu/~maryc/Santeria
Bob Corbett's
reference
site on Voodoo
Congress
of Santa Barbara - 'In April 1997, thirteen Haitian scholars
assembled in a colloquium they had organized on Haitian Vodou at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, agreed to organize a permanent scholarly
association for the study of Haitian Vodou and its impact on Haitian society
and the international community.
Calling
on the Gods: The Embodied Aesthetic of Haitian Vodou
Hartford Web
Publishing's World
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