A Woman's Caribbean Discovery

Blog Post #6:   Does Haitian Voodoo have the same impact on  Believers, Non-Believers and the Curious? Facts & History: Several studies have shown that the impact of Haitian Voodoo on believers & nonbelievers is different. This impact differs based on individual intellect, cultural history & personal religion.  Voodoo divinities, unlike angels, are worshiped  and served as substitutes or surrogates to Gran Met.  The Christian faith forbids the worship of any other god, as stated in the very first commandment (Exodus. 20:3), and this applies also to angels and departed humans (e.g., Revelations. 22:8–9). The idea of lesser divinities as intermediaries is also inconsistent with Christian theology. There is one mediator between God and man—Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life (1 Timothy. 2:5; John 14:6).  The Gran Met of Voodoo is not the God of the Bible. The god of Voodoo is Satan, who through ...

Little Cog-Burt  Little Cog-burt was written by a female author from Dominica.  “Phyllis Shand Allrey”, who is most often perceived as a politician who subordinated her promising career as a novelist to her trailblazing efforts to open Dominica’s path to political democracy, rarely—if ever— does her audience think of her as a poet. Yet her favoring of her poetry as “the best part of me” prompts echoes about poetry’s role in her trajectory as a writer and politician that yet invites us to read her commonly read poems in search of her reproductions on that “best part” of her tragically daring image.   Cotton Candy Cotton Candy was also written by a Caribbean female poet.Dora Alonso, who was born in Cuba. Dora Alonso  was born Doralina de la Caridad Alonso-Perez on December 22, 1910 in Maximo Gomez, Matanzas, Cuba. Dora was a Cuban journalist and writer who worked in both print and radio. She ...