3. ORIGINS
It's a Variant theist of an
animist system, provided
with a strong magical
component.
It has approximately
10000 years old.
By its direct link with the
Neolithic cosmology and
belief systems, their study
is of great interest in the
field of paleoanthropology.
Voodoo is located
between the most ancient
religions of the world.
4. MAIN BELIEVES
In Voodoo is considered that there is a
latest supernatural entity, called Bondye
ruler of the supernatural world, but it is
inaccessible and remains alien to the
world of humans, so communication with
the supernatural world has to be carried
out through the many eulogies, also
supernatural entities that act as
intermediary deities and forming the
central axis of the Voodoo
Although there is no uniform religious
structure, a Voodoo priest has the function
of contact with the summoned loas,
speaking the loa through it, so it is
attributed to the priests a great power.
The term Bokor is reserved to a priest who
uses his power for evil
5. VOODOO IN AMERICA
Due to the traffic of
African slaves to Cuba
and Haiti, there was
mixed with local
religions and ended up
creating a variant.
Voodoo also expanded
to the South of the
United States