More on Hoodoo (spirituality)
In my previous post I talked about traditional hoodoo where it started I want to talk a little more on it.
Let's start with this 'The origins of the word Hoodoo which some say actually comes from the real term "Hudu", meaning "spirit work," coming from the Ewe language spoken in the West African countries. No. It Does Not.some parts or African but it comes from African Americans in the American south.
As I mentioned in a past post the term Hoodoo mean. This is a term that's mean you are sending someone up the river, or the upper room. aka death. This is what it actually means. But in this time it seems it's use to represent all forms of root work. This was started by marketeers. People who has made others think it's not a religion.
Let's talk on this here π
SWEETENING JARS:
Traditional Sweeting Jar
Sweetening jars is traditional in Hoodoo to sweeten a person or a situation in a person's favor. The practice is appropriated and its meaning is misunderstood outside the Southern African-American community. Traditionally sugar is added to water and used.. Not Honey. Ever... This word sweeten is a southern term mean if a person like you one would say their sweet in you. Aka sweet, to like another...
During the slave trade, the majority of Central Africans imported to New Orleans, Louisiana were Bakongo (Bantu people). This image I like and wanted to show it if anyone hasn't seen it. It was painted in 1886 and shows African Americans in New Orleans performing dances from Africa in Congo Square. Congo Square was where African Americans practiced Voodoo. ("So again when any non traditional Root Worker says there isn't a little voodoo elements with hoodoo there wrong") Because it all starts in Africa..
Next we have this diagram the Kongo Cosmogram Cross.
Kongo Cosmogram aka Crossroads.
The Kongo cosmogram aka The Crossroads is from Bakongo origins. This shows how different African religions teach simulator things.
Why is it important? The basic form of this symbol is a simple cross (οΌ) which (symbolizes the rising of the sun in the east, the setting of the sun in the west, and represents cosmic energies.) Crossroads a place between worlds.
This shows that we do sometimes use the sun but not the moon like books may teach.
However, the cross is not the same as your typical Christian cross.
The vertical line of the cosmogram is the path of spiritual power from God at the top traveling to the realm of the dead below where the ancestors reside.
The horizontal line in the cross represents the boundary between the physical world which is the (realm of the living) and the spiritual world (realm of the ancestors).
The horizonal line is a watery divide that separates the two worlds from the physical and spiritual, and thus the "element" of water plays a role in spirituality.
The Kongo cosmogram cross symbol has a physical form in Hoodoo called the crossroads where Hoodoo rituals are performed to communicate with spirits.
Dancing: The Ring shout Is Not Part of traditional Hoodoo as far as the actual rituals are concerned, but it was done in some church's.
I wanted to share that your African roots of hoodoo but not all things that was done in Africa is hoodoo, being Christian is hoodoo so when people say I'm leaving the church to do hoodoo remember you never do it right if you don't believe in God, his son and the bible.
