American Voudou: Journey Into a Hidden World (104 page)

Authors: Rod Davis

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prayers to, 169

okana, 12

Old US Mint, New Orleans, 28, 30

Oliana, Chris, 184

Olodumare.
See
Olorun

Olofi.
See
Olorun

Olokun, 32

herbs for, 279

shrine of, 201

statue of,
202

Olorun

described as supreme being in orisha pantheon, 32, 160

Page 388

prayers to, 15-16

role in reincarnation, 163, 198

Oneidans, 129

Onje Fun Orisa [Food for the Gods]
(Mason), 250

opele (chain),
301

described, 161

Oba casting for author's reading, 212

used in Ifa divination system, 217-18, 226n

oral tradition of voudou tales, 83-84

orgies, media accounts of, 335-37, 339

origins of voudou

African, 8

Egyptian, 11

in the US, 7-12, 17-18

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