Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: racine125@aol.com (Mambo Racine Sans Bout) Newsgroups: alt.religion.orisha,alt.magick,alt.magick.folk,soc.culture.haiti,alt.pagan Subject: Re: Black Colour Problem - Why? (was: Black Cat Bones in Magic and Religion (was roots) Date: 29 Apr 2002 09:54:21 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <20020417014523.09485.00004538@mb-fz.aol.com> <9d1cded8.0204270736.6c87e152@posting.google.com> <4iFy8.336$lX2.2090@typhoon.sonic.net> <3ccc5f13.13889046@news.sunrise.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.86.229.105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1020099262 5819 127.0.0.1 (29 Apr 2002 16:54:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Apr 2002 16:54:22 GMT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.religion.orisha:13173 alt.magick:298529 alt.magick.folk:5022 soc.culture.haiti:37587 alt.pagan:298778 > wrote in message > news:3ccc5f13.13889046@news.sunrise.ch... > > > I am not only uncomfortable about the subject of killing > > black-coloured animals for some alleged magickal purpose, but it > > simply turns me off. Well, now, hold on a minute. In Vodou we sacrifice animals, there is no two ways about that. Not all ceremonies require it, but for those that do, we sacrifice animals. Sometimes we are not required to, but we do so anyway, for the dual purpose of pleasing the lwa and feeding the congregation. The animals are chosen according to color and sex. La Sirene would be given a white female goat, and we even dye the goat blue with laundry bluing sometimes. Erzulie Dantor's sacrifice is a black female pig, and no other color pig will do. Baron is given black ram goats, Carrefour is given a black rooster. This has nothing to do with bigotry against black people, or with the equation of "black" with "evil" - that sort of mentality doesn't exist in Vodou. Peace and love, Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen "Se bon ki ra" - Good is rare Haitian proverb The VODOU Page - http://members.aol.com/racine125/index.html (Posting from Jacmel, Haiti)