The majority of the deities are Dahomean and the rites of these are called Rada, from the town Allada.
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The majority of the deities are Dahomean and the rites of these are called Rada, from the town Allada.
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In Haiti, the Rada have come to represent the emotional stability and warmth of Africa, the hearth of the nation.
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Most books on Vodou have concentrated largely on the Rada pantheon.
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We associate the Rada Lwa with the color white and with a sense of purity and formality. Because of this, anthropologists and non-Haitians often described the Rada as the “good ancestral Lwa,” while the spirits of the Petro nation of Lwa were considered “evil,” or invented by slaves in Haiti, though this is extremely oversimplified.
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