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Item
Title
Bel Aire temple
Date(s)
- 1987 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1949-)
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A vodou priest prays before a mural of Erzuli Freda, one of the goddesses of love, in a peristyle or vodou temple in Bel Aire section of Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1987. He wears a dwapo vodou—Creole for vodou flag or spirit banner showing St. Jacques or Ogou Ferail, the powerful war spirit. Erzuli is often depicted as the Holy Virgin.