About Voodoo

I'm from Cuba too and I know about this. Wven we have our own version of voodoo, in Cuba there are more religions than expected. I know in the province of Oriente, they practice some voodoo because of the haitian migration (Haiti is very near of this side of the island) and that is how I know a little of voodoo and I would like to know a little more.

My husband is from Cienfuegos area by The Bay of Pigs Invasion site.

I was born in Santa Clara, by the middle of the island. Actually I didn't know about all this things until I started studiing them and making questions everywhere. Then I found the books by Lydia Cabrera, which can only be bought in Miami, and I loved them, althought they are difficult to understand for non cubans...

Are you against anything but christians? By the way, only catholic? are you against protestants, baptists, gnostics?... Don't you know the voodoo also respects Christ so it is just a different sight of christianism??

I have been lead into all versions and I have had encounters with other Orishas I just do not know all their names yet, Ogun, and Chango... I have encountered with Native Spirits, Nature Spirits, and even Greek Gods... Most of what I learned I learned first through encounters and experiences and years later when I asked who they were they guided me to it but asking me to search Ogun showed me who he was by saying to type Railroad God in a search engine. Every site that opened up was about Ogun, the Iron Aspect, Then Came lots of Sites about Chango... Any other time I have done this I have gotten sites about the transcontinental railroad without hardly anything about Ogun showing up. So that was a very obvious that Ogun set it up this way so I could understand who he was, and then I so happened to start meeting friends that work with him from many Traditions... The Yoruban, and New Orleans Vodoun versions of his is what influenced me the most, and one of my friends who used to be a Sangoma, and then converted to Christianity later... shrug shoulders.. So she used to support my working with him but no longer supports any Pagan paths. Which is her choice. My beliefs about them are usually centered around my experiences... when it comes to Ogun, I usually work with him through the Railroad aspect, and farming aspect... I have worked with him to prevent and change the outcome in train wrecks and derailments, and he has helped alert me to problems to prevent tradegies on a personal level. I am a Heinzist, Which means I lean all I can from many different religions and live my own path out in truth. So I learn about Ogun through different traditions and then take note of my personal experiences with him, so most of my beliefs and workings on Ogun is what I learned while working with him on my own.... I had validation in a reading from a friend who is a I do not remember the words in his language but he used the Online Screen name Yoruba preist, when he used to run an Yoruban and Orishas chat.... Doing readings and teaching and sharing. I hope this makes it easier to understand.. :). I do not claim to be a traditionalist, as I am a non-traditionalist in most of my workings due to me own eclectic experiences. - DNatureofDTrain

I am sorry I never gave you feedback for this. I just realized your answer now, when I was browsing trough old posts. It was a very beautiful description of your works and paths. I have similar paths myself. I learn also from all traditions, what you call a Heinzist, but I don't like tags. That is why I made discussions about all the religions from around the world I know.

Glad you did, I enjoyed responding to them, and well Labels are just human ways of classifying and understanding things, I am not to big on themselves, and I will get fussy over someone trying to give me a label I do not consider myself, or trying to tell me I am not what I am :D. Nice to meet you, and take care. - DNatureofDTrain