Notes from Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (Cosentino, ed.)

Most of them, I don't think would be interesting to other people, but here are some lines I thought beautiful:

From "Introduction: Imagine Heaven," by Donald Cosentino:

"In Vodou, we consider a human being like a starship. You are a starship and your energy is the captain. You can put yourself in a state where another energy can take control within you. When you see smoke in the sky, what do you say? You know there was a plane. The plane is gone, you don't see it anymore. It's the same thing when a person is possessed by a lwa. The lwa doesn't stay six or seven hours within the person. It's like a hit... plaaak, it makes a plaak, and then it goes. It leaves the person with an open mind." (Pg. 27, and while my notes attribute this quote to someone named "Lavoisier," no first name given, a couple other sources online with the same citation attribute it to "Ronald Derenoncourt, Haitian musician and TV personality popularly known as 'Aboudja'" so maybe I just fell asleep at the wheel?)

( Vogeuing, religious kintsugi, and loa marriage behind the cut. )