Houngan
Houngan is the name for a white magic male high priest in Haitian voodoo ; the female counterpart to both the houngan and the bocor is called mambo .
background
In voodoo there are three terms for clergy:
- Mambos , priestesses wholimitthemselves partly to white magic , partly also or onlypractice black magic
- Houngans who deal exclusively with white magic and limit themselves to the worship of the peaceful Rada loa and - as part of the ancestral cult - the neutral Ghede loa
- Bocore , who also or only deal with black magic; Unlike houngans and white magic mambos, their work is often of a paid nature
The content orientation towards certain nachons or individual loa is only expressed in the name of the male clergy.
term
The Fon word is composed of houn (other spellings oun, hun , "ghost") and gan ("boss", "head").
tasks
Houngans are the highest form of clergy in this religion, whose responsibility is to preserve the rituals and songs and to maintain the relationship between the spirits and the community as a whole (although some of this is the responsibility of the entire community).
They are entrusted with the ministry of all spirits of their gender. Sometimes they can be bocore at the same time; H. “Hired” priests or magicians with the ability to use black magic .
Terms
The top assistant to a Houngan is as Hounganikon , the temple of Houngan as hounfour and the ritual rattle of Houngan as Asson designated.
Trivia
A houngan is a monster in My Pocket Figure # 109.
Web links
- A houngan introduces itself ( Memento from July 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Chatland: Descriptions of Various Loa of Voodoo . Webster University , Spring 1990
- ↑ Google Books , sample text from Emmanuel Felix junior: Understanding Haitian Voodoo , p. 191. Xulon Press 2009, ISBN 9781607914877
- ^ Leslie Anne Brice: Nou La, We Here: Remembrance and Power in the Arts of Haitian Vodou. (Dissertation) University of Maryland, 2007, p. 73
- ↑ Papa Nemo: The Way of Voodoo - From the Basics to Practice , Specialized Publishing House for Esoteric Philosophy, Siegburg 2003, ISBN 3-936830-01-0 .