Table of Lwa
| Lwa Pantheon |
Important Lwa |
Temperment | Color, Foods |
Affliction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rada, Foreign |
Legba, Danbala & Aida Wedo Ezili Freda Lasiren Kouzen/Kouzin |
Capricious Like Parents Cooler Water Lighter Skin |
White, blue, pink, sweets, bland food, fruits, imported foods, drinks, white fowl, sheep |
Chronic, diffuse, depression, bad luck, especially fertile women |
| Petwo, Zando |
Ezili Danto Ti Jan Petwo |
Tempers Hotter Ambition Air & Earth Darker Skin |
Red, dark, mixed peasant foods pigs, dark fowl |
Acute symptoms, madness, seizures |
| Nago | Ogoun |
Masculine Soldiers Earth |
Red, Rum, steer and speckled fowl, cake, cigars |
Like rada, but more serious |
| Gede | Gede Nibo Baron La Kw Gran Brijit |
Liminal Death and Humor, Lewd Sexuality, Protector of Earth |
Black, spicy foods, rum, goats |
Multi-symptom, bad luck |
Citation: Richman, K. (2008, April 20). Table of Lwa. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/latino-studies/creole-lanuage-and-culture/table-of-lwa.
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