Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy (New Horizons)

180 Pages·15.175 MB·English

by  Laënnec Hurbon, Lory Frankel

NEW HORIZONS
© The Siren and the Whale are two marine divinities
so closely linked that they are always worshipped
together and celebrated in the same songs.
Some say the Whale is the mother of the Siren,
others that he is her husband;
and there are still others who say that
these two names are used for one and the same deity.
The Siren is represented according to European
tradition, but when she turns up in a sanctuary
the person possessed by her appears simply in the role
of a young coquette most careful of her looks.
During one Voodoo ceremony
the Siren and the Whale were incarnated
in two young women who, affecting elegance,
began talking French. A Guédé, exasperated
by their snobbery, took them off so cruelly that
the two poor goddesses fled in shame. ®
Alfred Métraux
Voodoo in Haiti,
translated by Hugo Charteris,
1972

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