11 World Lineages of Voodoo, West African Practices

 The are the current known World Voodoo Lineages Many traditions of "Voodoo" do not call themselves that, here are the names and origin places of ongoing West African practices. I have put the music instrument to denote some lineage.

1  Asogwe  Asson lineage "Haitian Vodou" Haiti, especially near the capitol Port au Prince

They will call their tradition Ginen or Sevis Lwa,Serving the Lwa: Mambo/Manbo or Houngan Priest/Oungan

2 21 Divisions: Dominican Republic, preserve nations of spirits as tribes in the new world from Africa

Use of Saints may feature more prominently, Mama Mambo and Papa Lwa

3 Tegare Tigare / Nana Priest, some djinn magic merged with Islam, masculine Nana priest

Akan have Komfo Priests, Tron: Wami Wata, may have Hindu Syncretism, 

Ewe, Mina, Fon: In West Africa Togo Ghana Benin Nigeria, 

Vodoun, Use Shekere

4  Sanse: Puerto Rico, Sancista, with Espiritismo Spiritualist Seance Tradition Tcha Tcha/Kwa

5 New Orleans Voodoo, Louisiana Voodoo, USA, 

Vodouisants/devotee and family practice/

Expats from other Vodou etc African practices settled mostly here and on the eastern seaboard from NY to Florida then to a lesser extent SE and South

6 Gullah Geechee people : Florida, South Carolina, Georgia: USA

7 Family /Lakou yard Baptismal style Tcha, Haiti especially in the North, Dominican Republic. Root traditions such as Souvenance, and other formative pre revolution groups.

8 Haitiano "Cuban Vudu" via Oriente East Cuba and Havana Kimbisa/ Maraca/Tcha due to the absence of gourd but with same 3 drum set as Haitians

9 Offshoot maroon society such as SanPwel, Bizango, Makaya/practices, Zobop etc: Haiti

10 Winti : West African origin: Suriname South America

11 There was preserved a line of Dahomey Voudoun "Orisha"into Yoruba based Santeria such as the family of Babaluaye, Nana Buruku, and Nanu are usually given together and Orisha names also given instead of Ellegua is given also Afra/ Eshu Afra, Afrakete instead of Yemaya etc 

The Awan basket cleansing ceremony done at Olokun and Babaluaye reception are done. Cuba via Ifa /Santeria/Ocha priests are Santera/Santero or for Ifa masculine Babalwo

Honorable Mention:  Quimbanda where I believe it is the spirit Exu Marabo is said to have retained West African Islamic Male line under Ochosi (seen as mixed-native heritage sort of like Nsasi/Siete Rayos in Cuban Palo) which is why under mixed people in the new world he rules some appearance of tribe division from the kingdom of Lyre and associated crossroads. While Umbanda/Candomble and associated Quimbanda have spirits under Yoruba and mainly spiritualist/Congo influenced. There were conversion in Africa of Muslim and Congolese Christians before Transatlantic slavery to Brazil 

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Where & How do the Lwa appear?

Where do they live and where do they come from?

Where do the Lwa live? Do they all live under the sea in Vilokan with met Agwe? I asked my Padrino. It seemed to be related to Afrique Ginen, the mystical homeland across the waters where the ancestors live, since the rada or elder Lwa are referred to as Ginen, the original west African Lwa from where Voudou originated.
Non, they come down from the sky, they live everywhere and in everything. He answered

This made sense to me from the animistic perspective, and as the Lwa are real beings, but also personified natural forces. Some have domain of the rivers, the others the ocean, the cemetary, the forest, the crossroads, the wind, thunder and lightening, some may find homes inside a stone.

You may see them in your dreams, they may appear african, or as the saint face. You may see them briefly as the corner of your eye. You may go to a ritual and see them communicate through their horses. You may see them manifested in the causal environment through natural forces, media, symbols, synchronicity or appearance of animals such as an uncanny timed specific colored butterfly or a specific type of dog. You may see them in waterglasses or candlewax.

What do they look like?

Ah that is why they are mystery. Do they truely look like the saint? no. Do they look like a normal human? no. Do they look like a snake? sometimes. Do all simbi, snake spirits look like a snake? no. They can look like very human animals such as the Lwa Sobo and Bade who can look like giant goats.

What do natural or cosmic force creational force look like? Although I do not believe that Voudou can be approached through ceremonial magick or gnosticism at all, there is personal revelation inside the religion.
What is color, spectrum, vibration as it pertains to the celestial? Light, refraction, fractals.

Dhamballa and Aida Wedo the creational Lwa

The trinity, of source, polarity, giving rise to rays of emanations.

There is a reason we use 7 colors of panuelo, bandana or fabric, for our 7 chief Lwa in Sanse

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