Just so you guys know (and/or remember), there are african gods that exist in the Marvel Universe other than Bast and his relatives.
Introducing The Vodu!
told yah, I'm not goin' as hard as I could... I should have dealt with this when I posted the stuff about Dr. VooDoo. I said I would come back to it, so...
Uh, yeah, great find, Frostbite883. Anything to get Storm back to her roots is a plus. cheers to you.
But, there are some inconsistencies.
The original tenants of Vodun did not include deities. Yoruba is a derivative of Vodun, in the same way Judaism & Catholicism is to Christianity. The original practice of Vodun was the appreciation of all things in nature (earth, wind, fire, water, etc).
The link refers or associates deities to ancestral Vodun, known as
“The Vodu”. The deities came much later & the practitioners began to merge (or were persuaded to merge) the two belief systems. Showing deities & calling them The Vodu is irresponsible, because it represents further deviation of the original tenants. Today, Voodoo has been laced with dozens of deviations & down-right corruptions. That’s why modern Voodoo is full of “Mojo-bags” Spells, potions, shrunken heads, voodoo dolls & is considered African witch-craft. I believe, these corruptions were intentionally added (to the belief system) to further demonize African Culture.
Like with most religions, people are supporting an abbreviated version & do not know or understand the full spectrum. Marvel is way out-of line to merge the two practices just like anyone else that does the same.
Again, the original form of Vodun does not , I repeat, does not have deities.
The word Vodun literally means "nature".
Agriculture is the closest thing to the origins of Vodun. Growing food was a science.
AGRO- (land, ground, earth, field)
CULTURE= The beliefs & customs of a particular society, group, place, or time. Ways of life. Also means = worship, reverence, "the tilling of land," cultivating & honoring.
Marvel has a lot of nerve creating these characters. Maybe they didn’t know any better. Maybe they did. Most people don’t know, so I’ll give them a pass. Yes, Yoruba does have principals & acts of nature morphed into human (deity) form.
The Vodu- all look mulatto. The comic pages are ok. Nice art & the research is almost on point. I could break-down Kemetic deities, too. Diversity? hhhmmmm
