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NEW
ORLEANS STYLE DAY OF THE DEAD
DIA
DE LOS MUERTOS WITH SALLIE ANN GLASSMAN
La
Source Ancienne Ounfo &
The Island of Salvation Botanica & Magical Pharmacy
Thursday, November 1st
3319 Rosalie Alley
New Orleans, LA.
Followed
by potluck supper & procession to the cemetary
to feed the dead. Please wear white with a purple
headscarf, or black and purple for Gede. Bring
a dish (not a blonde) for the people and an
offering for the DEAD or GEDE. Gede's tastes
tend towards peppers, flat bread, rum, cigars,
goats, crosses, gravedigger's tools, black cock
feathers, skeletons, sunglasses with one lens,
spicy creole foods, and money! He is syncretized
with St. Gerard. Or you can bring something
your ancestors or loved ones enjoyed in life.
FOR MORE INFO AND RSVP: (504)948-9961
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HURRICANE CEREMONY X
Public prayer ceremony dedicated
to Our Lady of Prompt Succor (who has intervened historically
on New Orleans’ behalf when a hurricane has threatened)
and Ezili Danto (also associated with Mater Salvatoris
and Moumt Carmel) to ask for protection from hurricanes.
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When:
Saturday, July 21st.. 7:00 p.m.
Where: Achade Meadows Peristyle,
3319 Rosalie Alley (off of Rampart, between Piety
and Desire)
What
to bring in offering:
For
Our Lady: flowers, statues, candles, religious
pictures, jewelry.
For
Danto: Barbancourt Rum, Florida Water, candles,
daggers, dolls dressed in red and blue with gold
trim or calico prints, spicy black beans, peasant
cakes, unfiltered cigarettes, fried pork, white
crème de menthe.
What
to wear: Please dress in white (the
color of purity), with red head scarves, or all
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For
More Info, call The Island of Salvation Botanica: (504)
948-9961.
http://www.feyvodou.com/
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| Voodoo
(Vodou, Vodoun, Vudu, or Vudun in Benin, Togo, southeastern
Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Senegal; also Vodou in Haiti)
is a name attributed to a traditionally uten West African
spiritual system of faith and ritual practices Like most
faith systems, the core functions of Voodoo are to explain
the forces of the universe, influence those forces, and
influence human behavior. Voodoo's oral tradition of faith
stories carries genealogy, history and fables to succeeding
generations. Adherents honor deities and venerate ancient
and recent ancestors. This faith system is widespread
across groups in West Africa. Diaspora spread Voodoo to
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Portrait
of Marie Laveau
Franck
Schneider after George Catlin
c. 1920s
Oil on canvas
Although
there is plenty of information about Marie
Laveau and her daughter and namesake in
the legends and lore of Old New Orleans,
known as Marie II, separating the fact
from the myth has always been a challenge
for those seeking a true history of this
famous New Orleans icon. Nearly everything
that is known about them originates in
the secretive oral tradition of the practitioners
of Voodoo and that information has been
embellished with hearsay and drama, making
an already larger than life persona absolutely
formidable in the tales that survive.
Marie
Laveau - Voodoo Queen of
New Orleans
The Marie
Laveau image by New Orleans' artist, Dimitri
Fouquet, of his original oil paintings
as featured on Dr. John's
CD "Creole Moon."
Voodoo
Queen author, Martha Ward, is quoted in
New York Times article on Voodoo:
"Something very real
is happening," said Martha Ward,
a professor of anthropology at the University
of New Orleans who wrote one of the forthcoming
books about Laveau. "Americans today
are hungry for spiritual fulfillment,
and voodoo offers a direct experience
with the sacred that appeals to more and
more people.
"This is especially
visible in New Orleans, which has always
been a center of those beliefs,"
Ms Ward said, "Marie Laveau rules
the imagination of this city. People think
about her, see her, have visions of her,
dream about her, talk to her. I know because
these people are showing up on my doorstep
almost every day."
from "Interest Surges
in Voodoo, and Its Queen," New York
Times, November 30, 2003
Martha
Ward www.marthaward.net/disc.htm One
of the famous above-ground cemeteries
of New Orleans is known as St. Louis No.
1, the oldest graveyard in the city. A
tall marble and stucco tomb there is a
site where devotees frequently leave gifts
- flowers, candy, salt, coins, beads,
bourbon - for Marie Laveau, the famous
voodoo priestess. She still attracts attention,
and some people still talk to her. One
of these is Martha Ward, an anthropologist
at the University of New Orleans, who
has written
Voodoo Queen:
The Spirited Lives of Marie
Laveau
(University Press of Mississippi).
It is a book from a strange sort of participatory
journalism; the author says she has "relied
on dreams, intuition, a hyperactive imagination,
and funky Voodoo luck." She admits
to standing in front of the tomb and hearing
Marie laugh when asked "What really
happened?" Marie's answer: "Who
knows the whole story, and maybe it's
better that way." There is such a
gumbo of legend and fact here, along with
earnest attempts to clear up history and
legal agreements that were deliberately
made murky in the first place, that calling
upon voodoo as a reference source isn't
as dicey as it might seem. Ward is a competent
guide through confusing social customs
of strange times in a strange locale,
and she interprets the gaps as carefully
as possible. "There's hardly any
peg in this whole narrative that's literal,
truthful or absolute," she warns,
but there is plenty of good storytelling
and historical recreations of New Orleans
nonetheless.
There is a legend that the
infamous New Orleans native and Voodoo
Queen Marie Laveau ( Leveaux, Lavaux,
Le Veau, Levaux ) never died, that, in
fact, her spirit lives on in selected
female descendents in Her Secret society,
and Laveau's faithful are awaiting her
return. Jewell Parker Rhodes (Voodoo Dreams,
Douglass's Women, Magic City) births a
modern day Marie in the second book of
the Marie Laveau/Voodoo trilogy, Voodoo
Season: a Marie Laveau Mystery.
Marie
Laveau and the
Devil Baby of Bourbon Street (
Find out more here.)
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St. John’s Eve 2007
June 23rd, 7 pm: Sallie Ann Glassman and La Source Ancienne
Ounfo celebrate St. John’s Eve with their annual
ceremony on the footbridge over Bayou St. John (near Cabrini
High School).
Vodou Ceremony
Wear all white and bring a white scarf or rag for your
head (It will get dirty.)
Marie
Laveau
Bring an offering for Marie Laveau. She likes flowers,
blue and white candles, hair ribbons and hair dressing
supplies (She was a hairdresser.), Vodou-esque items (Voodoo
dolls, potions, gris-gris bags, etc.), or images of Marie
Laveau.
St. John’s Eve Eve
the same ceremony will be held Friday June 22nd at 6:30
pm at the International House Hotel, 221 Camp St.
http://www.feyvodou.com/
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