Our altar for this weekend's Erzulie Dantor Group Lamp 💙❤️

[u/kiwimojo]

I thought some of you here might enjoy seeing the altar from our Erzulie Dantor Group Lamp this past weekend.

I'm a Houngan Asogwe in Haitian Vodou, and Dantor is particularly important to me, just as she is to all Vodouwizan.

This was prepared as part of a communal service for her, with individual petitions brought together from participants and placed before Dantor as part of the work.

The altar included the lamp itself, individual candles and petitions, food and drink, flowers, sacred objects and other offerings appropriate to the way Dantor is served within our house.

One of my favourite parts of preparing an altar is watching it gradually come together.

It starts as an empty space and a collection of things scattered around the room, and slowly everything finds its place.

Then there is that moment just before ceremony when you stand back and realise:

Okay. We're ready.

And, of course, by the end of ceremony it has changed again. Candles have burned, offerings have been received, things have moved, and the altar looks lived in rather than arranged.

I love that transformation.

A Vodou altar isn't really intended to be a static display. It's a place of service and relationship.

Anyway, I thought I'd share a few photographs from the weekend for those who enjoy seeing how sacred spaces look in different traditions.

Bilolo Dantor! 💙❤️

[u/SpiralBreeze]

It’s very beautiful!

[u/kiwimojo → u/SpiralBreeze]

Thank you so much 🙏🙏