Vodunnon 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 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 we have : 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 types of enemies, Gambada is considered as 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 uncontrollable power on earth in exchange for short lifetime or your offspring. 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 an 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 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 Ayidjè 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. 

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