 | Vo-duthe word for spirit in the Fon language of Dahomey, now the country of Benin. Roughly interchangeable with orisha.
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| Voudoupantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave trade. Here, used as the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah, Shango Baptist, etc. Also voodoo, vaudoux, vodou, etc.
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| Yaguósanteria term for new initiate. From the Yoruba term, iyawo, mother (iya) of the mysteries (awo). In this usage, iya also assumes the inverse meaning of child, or sometimes bride.
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| Yemonjaorisha of fertility and the seas. Syncretized with Our Lady of Regla, and with the moon. Olokun is the male version. Agwe in Haiti. Yemayá in santeria.
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| Zombior zombie, a soulless body, originally from Haitian usage.
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