vodun

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  • Gun, the Fon god of iron and war, iron; in the Musée de l'Homme, Paris. Height 165 cm.
    In African religions: Ritual and religious specialists

    …among the devotees of the vodun (“divinities”) in Benin any initiate may become a receptacle of the gods. (Worship of the vodun is the original source of the Haitian religion of Vodou, which emerged as a syncretism of African, Roman Catholic, and Caribbean religious traditions by African slaves in Haiti.)…

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