KUFURU TUKIO KATIKA PICHA: TAZAMA PICHA ZA SIRI ZILIZOPIGWA ZIKIONESHA KAFARA INAVYOFANYIKA HAITI, TUNAOMBA RADHI KWA BAADHI YA PICHA

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Several times a day, light casts down from an opening at the highest point of the grotto ceiling, during these times, many Vodouisants can be found making their requests to the Loa/Iwa. It was that same light that the Taino Indians in that region centered many of their rituals

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Two Vodouisants moments after a spiritual possession and sacrifice

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A Vodouisant moments after being released from the Loa/Iwa
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A Hougan (or Hougan) uses talc power to refresh and purify a sacrificial offering. The meat and hide will then be eaten and shared amongst that family or others in need


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A Vodouisant after a moment of prayer
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The life energy of the animal is for the Lwa (spirit) and often the blood is collected in a calabash bowl and later placed on the Poto Mitan, which represents the center of the universe and access to the spirit world

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A Mambo (high priestess in Haitian Vodou) is overcome by a spirit
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A Vodouisant in a moment of prayer, deep inside a grotto once used by the Taino Indians for religious ceremonies

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A Mambo (Vodou high priestess) and her congregation watch to see if their offering to the spirits (a goat) will accept food. It is only then, when it will be allowed to be sacrificed in honor of the Loa
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A Mambo (high priestess in Haitian Vodou) is overcome by a spirit
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A family of Vodouisants begin to invoke the Loa/Iwa

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Photojournalist Anthony Karen said Vodou, known to most as voodoo, was feared because of ignorance
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A Vodou priest (Hougan or Houngan) begins to invoke the spirits (Loa or Iwa) during the feast day of St. Francis De Assisi in a remote region of Haiti

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A Vodouisant adheres a prayer to the grotto walls with candle wax during the feast day of St. Francis De Assisi

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Vodouisants navigate their way deep inside a grotto once inhabited by the Taino Indians to make their requests of the Loa/Iwa (spirits) who serve them

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A Vodouisant during a moment of prayer
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A Vodou priest (Hougan or Houngan) begins to invoke the spirits (Loa or Iwa) by blowing candle smoke in the face of another Vodouisant during the feast day of St. Francis De Assisi in a remote region of Haiti

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A Vodouisant prays by candlelight during the feast day of St. Francis De Assisi
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A Vodouisaint is entered by a spirit

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Vodouisants navigate their way deep inside a grotto once inhabited by the Taino Indians to make their requests of the Loa/Iwa (spirits) who serve them


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