Rada (Voodoo)
The totality ( Creole. Nachon ) of the benevolent and peaceful Loa (spirit beings) in Voodoo is called Rada .
The Rada cult originally comes from the Kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa and was brought to the Caribbean, particularly Haiti, by way of the transatlantic slave trade .
A voodoo priest calling the rada loa is known as a houngan . A priestess is called Mambo regardless of the type of loa called . In the pilgrimage site of Sodo , several Rada-Loa are remembered every year.
The temples where the Rada-Loa are worshiped are called Hounfours .
Single loa of the Rada
Typical representatives of the Rada-Loa include Ayida , Ayizan , Damballah , Filomez , Legba and Loco . Some loa that have both benevolent and destructive aspects belong to both the Rada and the bellicose Petro-Nachon. This applies to Agwe , Erzulie and Simbi Andezo , among others .
Rada in the novel
In Dean R. Koontz 's novel When the darkness comes (Darkfall) from 1984 is Rada the name of a shop for devotional objects of voodoo, which is operated by the White Mage Carver Hampton.
See also
- Category: Rada-Loa
- Petro , totality of the destructive loa
- Ghede , the entirety of the loa concerned with birth and death
- List of spirit beings in voodoo
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jan Chatland, Descriptions of Various Loa of Voodoo , Rada section . Webster University , Spring 1990
- ↑ Emmanuel Felix: Understanding Haitian Voodoo . P. 191 at Google Books . ISBN 978-1607914877
- ↑ Dean R. Koontz: Darkfall , Chapter IV. ISBN 978-0425214596 , sample text from Google Books