Vodn: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power Landry Timothy R.
Tourists to Ouidah, a city on the coast of the Republic of Bnin, in West Africa, typically visit a few well-known sites of significance to the Vodn religion--the Python Temple, where Dangb, the python…
Specifikacia Vodn: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power Landry Timothy R.
Tourists to Ouidah, a city on the coast of the Republic of Bnin, in West Africa, typically visit a few well-known sites of significance to the Vodn religion--the Python Temple, where Dangb, the python spirit, is worshipped, and King Kpasse's sacred forest, which is the seat of the Vodn deity known as Lok. However, other, less familiar places, such as the palace of the so-called supreme chief of Vodn in Bnin, are also rising in popularity as tourists become increasingly adventurous and as more Vodn priests and temples make themselves available to foreigners in the hopes of earning extra money.Timothy R. Landry examines the connections between local Vodn priests and spiritual seekers who travel to Bnin--some for the snapshot, others for full-fledged initiation into the religion. He argues that the ways in which the Vodn priests and tourists negotiate the transfer of
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