Aido Wedo Notes

While looking for some imagery for a possible Aido Wedo illustration, I have come across some really interesting info at several sites:

Aida Wedo Loa of fertility and new life, especially conception and childbirth. Wife of Damballa. Known as the Rainbow Snake, she takes a snake form. Her symbol is the rainbow, and her color is white. Sacrifices of white chickens and white eggs are often made to her.

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A common saying is that Haiti is 80% Roman Catholic, 20% Protestant and 100% Vodou. Thus the Catholic contribution to Haitian Voodoo is quite noticeable. However, in the United States the story is different, despite claims to the contrary.Confusion about Voodoo in the USA arises because there exists throughout the United States a widespread system of African American folk magic belief and practice known as Hudu or more popularly as hoodoo. The similarity of the words hoodoo and Voodoo notwithstanding, hoodoo is not an organized religion like Voodoo, but is an integral part of the Vodoun religion in West Africa and arguably throughout all of Africa. Some aspects of hoodoo is considered derived primarily from Congo and Angolan magical practices of Central Africa and retains elements of the traditions and practices that arose among Bantu language speakers. However, any serious practitioner who has travelled and studied Hudu in West Africa, will readily conclude that this ancient, magio-botanical practice is indigenous and essential to all indigenous, West African religious systems, having only minute variations.Today, due to the suppression of the Vodoun religion in America, most hoodooists are now members of African American Protestant churches, such as the various Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal (AME), Pentecostal, and Holiness denominations , but when hoodoo is compared to some of the African religions in the diaspora, the closest parallel is Cuban and Dominican Palo, a survival of Congo religious beliefs melded with some Catholic forms of worship.

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She rules fire, water, wind and the rainbow. When she appears in a voudoun ritual, she slithers across the ground wearing a jeweled headdress that - like the treasure at the end of the rainbow - is elusive but enriches anyone who can grasp it. ~Text from Patricia Monaghan's The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines

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