Voodou isn’t like that. It isn’t concerned with notions of salvation and transcendence. What it’s about is getting things done. You follow me? In out system, there are many gods, spirits. Part of one big family, with all the virtues, all the vices. There’s a ritual tradition of communal manifestation, understand? Voodou says, there’s a God, sure, Gran Met, but He’s big, too big and too far away to worry Himself if your ass is poor, or you can’t get laid. Come on, man, you know how this works, it’s street religion, came out of dirt poor places a million years ago. Voodou’s like the street. Some duster chops out your sister, you don’t go camp on the Yakuza’s doorstep, do you? No way. You go to somebody, though, who can get the thing done. Right? . William Gibson
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Voodou is a form of West African spiritual belief system and Haitian folk religion. It is characterized by the worship of loa, which includes ancestors and deities, and is practiced in Haiti and surrounding countries. Voodoo refers to the practice of the religion while voudoun refers to the loa that are believed to be responsible for the practice. Voodoo Rites were performed in secret initiation ceremonies by practitioners to honor these spirits.

In 2015, it was estimated that there were around nine million practitioners of voodoo in Haiti alone. The word "voodoo" comes from the French term voudou, which means "spirit".

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