A few weeks ago I spent some time in the New Orleans VooDoo Museum.
Voodoo became of interest to me as I discovered it roots deep in African religion.
So here I will present a number of visual images from the museum. The museum seems to have a number of active and functioning alters. I will show these as well.
I will not, however, attempt to explain or interpret any of this.
Voodoo does not have an orthodoxy, a single story, a single path, or a correct interpretation.
If anyone tells you they are telling what Voodoo exactly is, then they are wrong.
So, enjoy the images of the alters, lessor entities, and saints of the belief.
Remember to see the details in these pictures click on them.
They were all taken in very low light, so clarity may be difficult.
The New Orleans
Voodoo Museum
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"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles."
It is said.
I'm just sayin'.
And I'll point out that the first thing Paul wrote up there was: "they knew God." Then, he said their "hearts were darkened." Elsewhere, he noted that we all see as through a glass, darkly.
Hmmm ...
Voodoo artifacts. Pre-dashboard dashboard Jesuses?
Romans 1:
God's Wrath Against Mankind
18: The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
19: since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20: For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
So prior to Abraham, prior to Moses , prior to Jesus, prior to Paul, "...God's invisible qualities-his eternal power,...divine nature" were know and understood by all me. It is their interpretation that is wrong? And so because of that they are damned.
One interesting thing about Voodoo is that it is in many ways what survived of the African religions after the White Protestant American southern planters tried to destroy it but only succeeded in inserting a Christian Diety into it, refining it and driving it deep underground.
Here is one little part of the story:http://www.mariner.org/captivepassage/arrival/arr022.html
Also note that Voodoo was the primary reason that the Lewis and Clark exploration could take place.
Ain't that something. Our history is quite a tapestry.
Ah yes, and I added the last picture for all the Cat lovers.
Got a black cat bone
got a mojo too,
I got John the Conqueror root,
I'm gonna mess with you...
—"Hootchie Cootchie Man," Muddy Waters
Maybe I should put my two black cats on leashes around Halloween?
Two black cats, ah ha, I know where you live!
!!!
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