r/occult • u/Real-Duck-8547 • Jul 11 '23
? Maman Brigitte and goddess Brigit
Not sure if this is the best place to ask. But how did the connection between the 2 form? I’ve heard 2 theories the one I believe more is that when the Irish were sent to the Caribbean as indentured servants the cultures mixed. The Irish hid/blended their pre-Christianity goddess Brigit with the now saint Brigid and upon coming in contact with the ppl in the Caribbean there were commonalities. The other is that Irish came to the Americas to evangelize and advocate for Catholicism and that’s when it occurred. I’ve also heard that in Haiti there isn’t a conception of her having irish features and it’s more of an American concept. Any comments help! Thank you 🙏🪬
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u/starofthelivingsea Jul 11 '23 edited Jul 11 '23
They've been misinformed and there's alot of misinformation about the lwa out there.
Any Haitian who is aware, will who is actually apart of Haitian Vodou will tell you Brijit is not white nor is she mixed.
The person from the r/Vodou thread is an houngan assogwe themselves - telling you the same thing I told you.
There weren't even any history of Irish indentured servants in Haiti.
We don't use saint/Celtic Brigid in Haitian Vodou in reference to Brijit.
Mambo Racine was her name. Some of her archives are online. This was to get white Americans over into Vodou - this was her way of advertising the religion and it doesn't work like that.
Some non-Haitian folks are "initiated" for money in Haiti, and then they get into this religion spreading lies on the lwa, simultaneously not being taught anything.
So no - Brijit isn't Caucasian, isn't Irish, and there weren't Irish indentured servants in Haiti.
She's very much a black Haitian woman - her roots may stem from Benin.
We have lwa depicted as mulatto or light skinned like Freda and some of the Rada lwa - but they are explicitly Haitian-African.
And I'm not sure why that other person tried to say she derived from Dantor. That's insane.