Vodounnon versus Hounnon
One of the biggest confusion one has to avoid when trying to reconnect to the root is to avoid taking a Hounnon for a Vodounnon. Everybody can become a Hounnon if they want to, but everybody cannot be Vodounon. A Hounnon deals with Vodun xixô; which can be referred to as a spiritual robotery that individual can own and use it to satisfy their personal needs. It can be used to do good as well as it can be used to do evil. It is like a gun. You can use a gun to kill or to protect yourself. Your robot cannot do more than the programmation you have put on it. Some Vodun xixô are powerful enough to serve more than one person but he is under the command of his priest. In this case, things are organized just like an imported religion or a sect. For one reason or another, you go to the priest to get initiated so as to benefit from the protection of the that Vodun/divinity. After your initiation, you are prescribed a new lifestyle related to the divinity. Trɔn followers for example do not eat pork, nor do they eat in black pan. As examples of most popular Vodun xixô in Benin today are:Trɔn, Gambada, and their derivations. While a truly well set-up Trɔn is considered as a powerful divinity that terrifies witches and protect against all type of enemies, Gambada is considered a powerful technology that is used to control people in order to get some favor from them against their will. At that time, Mami technology, not Mami as Vodun Ayidjè, is seen as a spirit you can sign contract with to get all wealth you desire or some uncontrolable power on earth in exchange for short lifetime or your offsrping. There are other strong Vodun xixô whose clans are not easy of access and that are used for different purposes. Among the list, we can mention KINNINSI or KINNONSI which is known as Azévodun (a Vodun that take witches and wizard for food that He/She enjoys without mercy).
A Vodounnon is not dealing with robotery. He is serving a Vodun which is commintted to serve the whole community. The Vodounon is not commanding a techonlogy. He is taking care of an angel that is serving the Mighty God by doing protecting the marvelous world God has created. Vodun Ayidjè are full part of our existence. We can't do without them. No matter you race, your culture, your religion, you are Vodunvi on one way or the other. Vodun are the living energies that rule Mother Nature. The evidence is that the main Vodun Ayidjè that we have are: Vodun Dan (the air), Toxosu (water), Xevioso and Gu (the fire), and Sakpata (the earth). In other words, Vodun spirituality is more about knowing yourself and staying in tight communion with Mother Nature.
Path to the Root
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Kɛnnɛsi (Kinninsi)Do fetishes really assume full protection?
Fetishes trully assume protection but are almost useless when you have skipped the basic steps. Let me first of all tell you that despite the praise about those fetishes as terrible fighters against witchcraft, skillful witches easily use them to attack the followers. This should not be surprising if you acknowlege that we are in technology, spiritual technology. Should I recall you that your robot will not do more than the programs you've put in it? Being owner of a very powerful fetish does not mean that you can control everything or everyone. It is like you use your gun to shoot on the anti-bullet of the ennemy. Sometimes the juju you want to put on someone via your fetish may turn back and totally destroy you when the target person has a stronger fetish or is under vibrations of the mighty Ancestors. Fetishes for our forefathers were additional stuffs in some specific cases (war within tribe or family, or for specific challenges). This means that before refering to fetishes, there are steps to take.
Why going to fetishes hapharsadly is so risky?
Let me start with this quotation of Sa-mèji (Ifa sign) which states that "Bo ɖé nɔ hu Vodun tɔn a". There is no spiritual technology above Vodun (deities, natural forces). Before you get into any fetish, you need a divination, or if possible, get initiated to Ifa in order to know better about your energy because when your energy does not go with the fetish you are taking, you can easily collapse within short time. You can sometimes drop dead few days after taking a fetish initiation. There are some énergies that are totally against the use of all juju. Another point is that you cannot be water and go to fire for protection. Getting connected to the root does not mean collecting strong juju from all around the world. The best way is to go to Ifa to find out which Vodun(energy) you go with.
What should we know about Vodun or Vodun priest then?
As far as Vodun priest is concerned, it is important to point out that a Vodun is not a tool that one can manipulate the way they want. Vodun is directly related to the universe we are living in, they are Angels at the Mighty God service. The universe is one like a country. But it has different departments like a country as well. The main departments of the universe are: Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. Each of these departments has a main leader, a minister. In that trend, Dan is in charge of the ministry of air, Xevioso (Sango) rules the fire (thunder), Sakpata governs the earth, and Dan will take other forms (Toxosu, Mami) to rule waters and ocean. These deities take different names according to the ethnic group. For example, Xevioso, god of thunder, is known in Yorubaland as Sango whereas it is known in Ewe (Togo and Ghana) as To-Hoonon. The same way they have lots of dérivations. Ogu for instance is part of Xevioso but he controles the iron and road or all accident with metalic objets. But what is amazing is that none of the different deities is said to be more powerful than others, and more amazing is that the complicity within them is so tight that we wonder how to truly make a clear cut distinction of them. For example, who can really explain us how come that Tɔxɔsu is the King of waters but Xɛvioso controles the falling rains. Despite the differences, the different elements come together to make the universe. The different vodun are angels leading the different elements that the universe is made up of. Getting into vodun means finding out which ministry you belong to and what is your mission on earth. That is what Vodun is all about if we are going to give It an approximative définition.
Who is the Vodun priest?
In African spirituality, especially in Vodun-Hwendo(Benin), the Vodun priest is chosen by Ifa, the only messenger of all Deities (all Vodun). A Vodun does not have the role to serve a specific individual but rather a whole community or a whole family. You can't wake up and decide to make your own vodun. The Vodun priest cannot order the Vodun he is in charge of to kill someone and the Vodun will obey. The priest has just the role to pray for individuals, for a family, for a community, to give libation to the Vodun on the behalf of the community, or to take care of people who have special concern and desire to talk to the Vodun.
Anyway, Vodun can do bad even kill. When someone in the community has powerful fetishes and is doing evil to the inhabitants, Vodun can cause his plans to return to him. Vodun Xêbioso acts very violently in that trend.
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