Cap Haïtien, Haiti. Near Fort Picolet, an "offering cave" dedicated to the "lwas", spirits of the voodoo religion... The lwas or loas the word comes from the French "lois" are intermediary spirits between the "Creator Mbamawou" and humans. They are incarnations of divinities, not deities themselves. The origin of voodoo comes from Vodoun, the religion brought by African slaves from Dahomey and Guinea.

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Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. Near Fort Picolet, an "offering cave" dedicated to the "lwas", spirits of the voodoo religion... The lwas or loas - the word comes from the French "lois" - are intermediary spirits between the "Creator Mbamawou" and humans. They are incarnations of divinities, not deities themselves. The origin of voodoo comes from Vodoun, the religion brought by African slaves from Dahomey and Guinea.

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