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I am studying the Pak\u00e8t Kongo for \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3 on the Haitian Vodou altar. \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3 is the warrior mother, she is often depicted as a black Madonna and she is always shown with a child. Her colors are red, blue, and green. \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3 is the perfect mother, she will drop everything to help her children and she is the protector of single mothers, working women, and abused women. I am studying the Pak\u00e8t Kongo for \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3 because I want to find out how the object is used in Vodou, how it represents who \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3 is and why a Paket Kongo is used to represent her on altars. The goddess \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3 is sometimes often referred to as \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3r or just Dant\u00f3r. She is one of the Petro Lwa and is considered to be one of the \u201chot\u201d spirits because she can be wild, aggressive, and not easy to control. \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3 is matched with the image of Mater Salvatoris and with other Madonnas such as Our Lady of Czestochowa and Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
\nJohnson talked about hybridity in religion and the ways that religions like Christianity and Catholicism mixed with African diasporic religions. Christianity mixed with Haitian Vodou during the slave revolution in the 1800s in Haiti. Polish troops sided with the Haitian slaves which led to Our Lady of Czestochowa becoming an image of \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3.
\nFor my research and object analysis I\u2019m going to need primary and secondary sources talking about \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3 and Pak\u00e8t Kongos and their functions on Haitian Vodou altars. I will use the UVM library to look for resources that have information on \u00c8zili Dant\u00f3 and on Haitian Vodou altars. Duke University\u2019s site on the sacred arts of the Black Atlantic may also be useful in determining the purpose of Pak\u00e8t Kongos and how they represent the god or goddess they are for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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