tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19703576.post5317595989759340799..comments2023-10-10T07:06:22.883-07:00Comments on Another Ravan Perch: Haiti and HateRavan Asterishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13971890629927800267noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19703576.post-56200381349265293942010-01-18T12:57:41.230-08:002010-01-18T12:57:41.230-08:00I published the above comment to illustrate two th...I published the above comment to illustrate two things"<br />1) Bigots are cowards, who can't post under their own pseudonym.<br />2) Bigots are idiots who don't know the difference between their own demons and other religions.<br /><br />You see, the lwa of Vodou are not "The Devilâ„¢" Different entirely. But bigots and haters don't know that, or don't care. Furthermore, the arrangements made by one generation with the lwa do not pass on to the next. So even if the revolutionaries prayed to the lwa for aid in gaining their freedom (like any religious person would pray to their deities), it has nothing to do with now. <br /><br />The lwa of Vodou are not the Christian Devil. It's too bad that that the ignorant bigots like this anonymous coward can't see that.Ravan Asterishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971890629927800267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19703576.post-75481477879633531722010-01-17T13:14:23.929-08:002010-01-17T13:14:23.929-08:00The truth is that they did make a pact with the de...The truth is that they did make a pact with the devil. <br /><br />Now the significance you put on that pact I guess has to do with whether you believe the devil is real or not.<br /><br />But it is one of Haiti's founding myths.<br /><br />http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/small_axe/v009/9.2laroche.html<br /><br />According to Haitian national history, the revolutionary war was launched on the eve of a religious ceremony at a place in the north called Bwa Kayiman (Bois Caiman, in French). At that ceremony on August 14, 1791, an African slave named Boukman sacrificed a pig, and both Kongo and Creole spirits descended to possess the bodies of the participants, encouraging them and fortifying them for the upcoming revolutionary war. Despite deep ambivalence on the part of intellectuals, Catholics, and the moneyed classes, Vodou has always been linked with militarism and the war of independence and, through it, the pride of national sovereignty.<br /><br />So, yeah if there is a devil, Haiti made a pact with it. Might explain why even though Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island, the Dominican Republic has been far more successful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com