A postcard from Jacksonville, FL (Kristen)
  • A postcard from Jacksonville, FL (Kristen)
  • A postcard from Jacksonville, FL (Kristen)

A postcard from Jacksonville, FL (Kristen)

7 476Km

Date of dispatch : 2014-03-27

Postcard # 978

Country: USA

Haitian Vodou is a syncretic religion practiced chiefly in Haitiand the Haitian diaspora. Practitioners are called "vodouists" or "servants of the spirits".  Vodouists believe in a distant and unknowable creator god, Bondye (likely derived from the French language term Bon Dieu, or Good Lord). As Bondye does not intercede in human affairs, vodouists direct their worship toward spirits subservient to Bondye, called loa.