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Authors: Rod Davis

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prayers to, 169
okana, 12
Old US Mint, New Orleans, 28, 30
Oliana, Chris, 184
Olodumare.
See
Olorun
Olofi.
See
Olorun
Olokun, 32
herbs for, 279
shrine of, 201
statue of,
202
Olorun
described as supreme being in orisha pantheon, 32, 160

 

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prayers to, 15-16
role in reincarnation, 163, 198
Oneidans, 129
Onje Fun Orisa [Food for the Gods]
(Mason), 250
opele (chain),
301
described, 161
Oba casting for author's reading, 212
used in Ifa divination system, 217-18, 226n
oral tradition of voudou tales, 83-84
orgies, media accounts of, 335-37, 339
origins of voudou
African, 8
Egyptian, 11
in the US, 7-12, 17-18
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