Tradition African traditions
West African Vodun
Religion practiced by the Aja, Ewe, and Fon people
- Also called West African Vodon, West African Vodoun, West African Voodoo
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Branches · 4
Many paths. Shared histories.
4 branches recorded under West African Vodun, one step down, as the records give them.
What this means
Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.
Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded as a branch of
Deities · 2
Gods and divine figures
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 2 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A god named in a tradition is a figure of its accounts; a picture of one is a work of art, not a likeness.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Figures · 1
Begin with a figure
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Connections
How West African Vodun connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 4
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- was influenced by Dahomean religion former state religion of Dahomey
- influenced Feri Tradition modern pagan tradition
- influenced Haitian Vodou syncretic religion practiced chiefly in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora
- influenced Louisiana Voodoo set of spiritual folkways that developed from the traditions of the African diaspora
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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