Says Wedosi:

>Suzann Preston Blier has written a book on what she considers African Vodun's Art... " African Vodun Art, Psychology, and Power"

That sounds pretty cool; I'll check it out.

Here's another one. I just got it a few months ago and have not had time to really delve into it. But it has some wonderful stories and pictures, and it looks meaty in the information department:

__Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy__ by Robert Farris Thompson

These things may be considered art: Here is an African Legba...

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Here is a representation of the vodun Gelede....

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Wedosi

I am very excited that you like the GELEDE vodun....I thought you would! :)

It will take me a few days to post the other photos; but, I will notify all of you the day that I do. I would like to offer you some background of the priest and his temple on the day I post them. The voduns are from a temple of HEVIOSSO. Normally, as said before, one does not see the voduns of ANY temple in Africa. No one has ever seen my own. But, I was fortunate that day in that I took some visitors to see this priest and was allowed. There is a picture of a HEVIOSSO vodunsi in my photos; but, you will see much more soon.

Wedosi

I have posted 10 new photographs. I will try and give a little background first. The temple that you are about to enter, briefly, is the temple of the great Sossa GUEDEHOUNGE who is now deceased. He died a few years before I left Benin. He was the Supreme Chef du Vodun of the great spirit HEVIOSSO. The Catholic Church was formed on the basis of vodun. There is the POPE, CARDINALS etc. In Vodun there is the SUPREME CHEF DU VODUN (meaning chef of ALL of the voduns) then the SUPREME CHEFS of the various pantheon of voduns. Sossa was born to the great spirit HEVIOSSO. He was a king and a good freind of mine. His son eventally became heir to his throne. It is he (the son) that I visited on that day. Sossa GUEDEHOUNGE died leaving 35 wives and 100 children! YES, you heard me correctly! :lol: His son, at our meeting, bosted of having over 45 children and that was years ago! Africa hey! :lol: If you start from #10 - #1 you will find them in order. I will start from there and narrate:

10. This photo is at my initiation ceremony in 1999. In attendance were the great power houses of African vodun due to the status that FA said I carried. I am standing in the middle of Sossa Guedehounge (the Supreme chef du Vodun - Heviosso) and the Supreme Chef du Vodun himself Dagbo Hounon Houna who is also deceased. The elder woman to the right is AFFI YEYE a Mami Wata priestess who initiated me.

9. Sossa Guedehounge is giving me his blessing. I am so sorry that he is not alive to witness me taking the most important seat in my spiritual life next year....The Supreme Chef du Vodun of the African Diaspora.

8. This is a statute of Sossa upon entering the village of Doutou. He was the king and high priest of that village.

7. This is the tomb of Sossa as we enter his compound.

6. This is the son of Sossa in the temple sitting by a vodun.

5. We are now entering some of the other vodun chambers of the HEVIOSSO temple of Sossa.

4. Vodun pots in Sossa's temple.

3. Another vodun in the temple.

2. These are some of the HEVIOSSO vodunsi.

1. More of the HEVIOSSO vodunsi.

I hope you guys have enjoyed the brief tour! There might be a few more photos, of his temple, that I might post later. A bit tired today. :)

Wedosi