Voodoo was founded in 2013 by Alexandre Yazdi and Laurent Ritter. They had been friends since high school and had previously founded Studio Cadet in 2012, a services company for websites and mobile applications.
What was the first voodoo?
Voodoo came to New Orleans in the early 1700s, through slaves brought from Africa's western “slave coast.” Like so many things New Orleans, Voodoo was then infused with the city's dominant religion, Catholicism, and became a Voodoo-Catholicism hybrid sometimes referred to as New Orleans Voodoo.
Who is known for voodoo?
Among the fifteen "voodoo queens" in neighborhoods scattered around 19th-century New Orleans, Marie Laveau was known as "the Voodoo Queen", the most eminent and powerful of them all.
Where is Voodoo practiced now?
Some anthropologists estimate that voodoo's roots in Benin—formerly Dahomey—West Africa may go back 6,000 years. Today an estimated 60 million people practice voodoo worldwide.6 Jul 2004
What state is known for Voodoo?
Louisiana Voodoo (French: Vaudou louisianais), also known as New Orleans Voodoo or Creole Voodoo, is an African diasporic religion which originated in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
What culture is voodoo?
Voodoo is a sensationalized pop-culture caricature of voudon, an Afro-Caribbean religion that originated in Haiti, though followers can be found in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, the United States and elsewhere. It has very little to do with so-called voodoo dolls or zombies.29 Oct 2013
What type of religion is voodoo?
Vodou, also spelled Voodoo, Voudou, Vodun, or French Vaudou, a traditional Afro-Haitian religion.
Why do they call it voodoo?
The word 'Voodoo' comes from the West African Fon people from southern Benin, and it means 'spiritual entity'.21 Sept 2017
Who is the voodoo god?
Papa Legba
What is a voodoo priestess?
A mambo (also written as manbo) is a priestess (as opposed to a houngan, a male priest) in the Haitian Vodou religion. Haitian Vodou's conceptions of priesthood stem from the religious traditions of enslaved people from Dahomey, in what is today Benin.
What is a person who practices voodoo called?
The spelling Voodoo is sometimes used for the Louisiana practice to distinguish it from Haitian Vodou. In some sources, practitioners are referred to as Voodoos themselves, and elsewhere as Voodooists. A related term is hoodoo, which may originally have been largely synonymous with Voodoo.
What do houngans do?
Houngan, or oungan, is the term for a male priest in Haitian Vodou (a female priest is known as a mambo). It is the Houngan's role to preserve rituals and songs, maintaining and developing the relationship between the spirits and the community as a whole.