2005年10月22日 · On the matter of what to offer the Ancestor or Deities, we have the choice of Water, Wine and "Hard" Liquor. The choice of liquid depends on the nature of the libation and prayer and what your aim is in invoking (awakening) the Ancestors. As has been my own experience: Water is for cooling and healing and creating or reconciling relationships.

A Vodouisant is buried with Roman Catholic ceremony, and a wake is held for nine nights after the death. The ninth night is called the 'denye priye', the 'last prayer'. After the 'last prayer', the Catholic part of the death ritual is closed. At some point either before or after the Roman Catholic ceremony, the Vodou ceremony of 'desounin' is held.

i will say this: within orisa, akan, and even vodun as practiced here in the states there are many many ways for non-initiates to get involved. the akan have akom. the orisa folks have bembe. and the vodun equally have ceremony and participation for non-initiates. its good to make your company. we will talk more.

The spiritual leader held great influence in the people's lives beyond religious ceremony and observance because spirituality and the concept of GOD encompassed all of one's existence. The "Sunday morning believer" or the idea that one's spirituality can be successfully separated from one's day-to-day affairs is a new, foreign concept.

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2006年5月3日 · Traditionalists are indeed critiquing/judging someone when they exclude them based on certain shortcomings that are not so extreme as to not be forgiven.

2024年3月17日 · The interchange came at a ceremony at Hamakari marking the centenary of imperial Germany's brutal campaign to crush an uprising by the Herero people. "We Germans accept our historical and moral responsibility and the guilt incurred by Germans at that time.

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2024年3月12日 · In an unconventional ceremony in Central Park, lawyer James Donovan vowed to take his withdrawn savings of $100,000 to be his lifelong partner. With a clergyman as a witness, Donovan pledged to take honor and cherish his fortune, for better or for worse, in sickness and health, and in joy and sorrow.

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