Tribal Vodoun

From deep inside the islands

comes a

religious belief of

magical fate

Necromantic tribes of the secret societies

Conducting ceremonies of the

Vodoun faith

Revenge in store for

enemies they hate

Soon to die awaiting to arise

Doomed to die by a

malevolent curse

Carnival of chaos

Symbolic designs

carved in the earth to beckon 'LEGBA'

(Rites of the Petro)

Reflections of rage and violence

Thundering drums echo unforgiving

Tribal chants grow louder

Dancers travel throughout the fire

Deity of fire 'OGU'

Protects skin from the flames

Divine horsemen arrive

mounting the initiation of possession

Tearing glass / utter pandemonium

spirits indulge in burning torches

Displacement to the ground

Spinning dancers wake to reality

Vodoun - cannot be abstracted from the

day to day life - of the Believer

All is whole - no separation between

material and spiritual

The Bokor

concocts the powder with the poisonous Datura

sprinkled upon the gateway of his victim

Body racked with terrible convulsions -

Mucus flowered from the nose and mouth shaking horrible

The edge of consciousness

criteria of poison

Lethargic coma

Indistinguishable from death

Comatose

Mentally alive / pronounced physically dead

Nails driven into the coffin buried prematurely

Mind slips / disoriented / complete amnesia

Three days fermented incarnation of Evil

Baron SAMEDI

Guardian of the cemetery

Preparing the victim's soul

for Zombification

The fear initiates the victim

Psychologically vulnerable

Powder does not secure

Fate / it's the mind

Baron unleashes cadaver

A soul trapped in a vessel

Blood spilt offering

Resurrection of zombie

body without character

Aimlessly wandering through time

servant to the Bokor

Le culte Des morts