Agassou
Agassou or Agassu is a loa (spirit) in West African and Haitian voodoo . His cult is rooted in the religions of the Fon and Yoruba in the kingdom of Dahomey , today's Benin .
Agassou is said to appear in Africa as a panther , in Haiti in the shape of a crab and to be associated with water spirits . According to Voodoo, it emerged from the marriage of Princess Aligbonon of Tado and a leopard . Among the loa he is assigned the role of a builder ; he is said to have once supported the creator deity . People possessed by Agassou are said to be recognizable by their claw-like , stiff and crooked hands.
He is considered the king and leader of the African sect "Community of the Leopard". In popular piety , he is said to have been sent to Haiti by the Rada-Loa Ayida Wedo to alleviate the suffering of slavery for the black Africans living there . His full name is called Agassou de bo Miwa (Agassou, the double-sided mirror), the two sides standing for Guinea and Haiti. He is called to help strengthen the finances of the temple ; White is his symbolic color .
In the West African religion of the Yoruba , the Caribbean Santería and the Brazilian Candomblé , Agassou is revered as one of the numerous Orisha .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jan. Chat Country: Descriptions of Various Loa of voodoo , Webster University , Spring 1990
- ↑ a b c Hougansydney: Agassou . 5th October 2014