Haiti Earthquake & Voodoo: Myths, Ritual, and Robertson

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Ker Than
for National Geographic News
Published January 25, 2010

Anthropologist and National Geographic explorer-in-residence* Wade Davis is the author of The Serpent and the Rainbow and Passage of Darkness, books that explore Haitian voodoo, magic, and zombies.

Davis recently spoke with National Geographic News about how voodooists might view the recent Haiti earthquake, the concern many Haitians are feeling as they bury loved ones without proper rituals, and U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson's remark that Haiti's earthquake is God's retribution for a voodoo "pact with the devil."


What is Haitian voodoo?

Voodoo is a religion, a complex spiritual worldview, the distillation of profound religious ideas that came over from Africa during the slavery era and through time became manifest in any number of traditions in the New World. t is ... a fusion of a number of religious traditions, of which Catholicism is one influence. Haitian culture and religion was inspired by virtually all of Africa from Senegal to Mozambique.

more:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100125-haiti-earthquake-voodoo-pat-robertson-pact-devil-wade-davis/

[MisterP]

1. one researcher at the border reported that the voodoo priests there

reported themselves haunted by all the improperly-buried dead

also, a lot of the more middle-class areas outside of Pétionville got leveled

[SlingBlade]

2. I've read the The Serpent and have been throughout

those regions extensively. The people there, Quite interesting.

As for Re-Puke Fundies, Well, Kiss my ass, Die and go to hell heaven or wherever
Just so long as that place isn't the same place I wind up at :)