lwa
Haitian divine intermediaries
Lwa are spirits in Haitian Vodou, intermediaries between humans and the supreme creator.
Each lwa has distinct personality, preferences, and domain—Legba opens pathways, Erzulie governs love, Baron Samedi rules the dead.
Practitioners serve the lwa through offerings, songs, and rituals, and lwa may possess devotees during ceremonies.
Also spelled loa.
Those from whom one descends
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- deityWorshipped supernatural being
- pantheonAll gods of a religion
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
sacred · divine · mystical · manifestation · embodiment · intermediary · intercession · veneration
Venezuelan state cryptocurrency
- mamboFast Cuban ballroom dance
- peristyleColumned enclosure around courtyard
- possessionState of owning
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
offerings · drumming · chants · altar · initiation · congregation · trance · sacrifice
ancestors
Those from whom one descends
supernatural · sacred · divine · mystical · manifestation · embodiment · intermediary · intercession · veneration · syncretism
Legba
Vodou spirit of crossroads
Petro
Venezuelan state cryptocurrency
- mamboFast Cuban ballroom dance
- peristyleColumned enclosure around courtyard
- possessionState of owning
ceremony · offerings · drumming · chants · altar · initiation · congregation · trance · sacrifice · libation
- HaitiHaiti, Port-au-Prince, Hispaniola, Haitian Revolution, vodou
- African diasporaSanteria, Vodou, orisha, orishas, ancestor veneration
- Vodoumambo, Baron Samedi, Legba, zombie, vodou