Inside Africa’s Most Mysterious Religion: Voodoo

I had never seen anything like this before. There is a small community of people around the world who practice a very

mysterious

religion

called Voodoo. Check it out. That is the Masquerade. This

religion

is said to be involved in rituals. Black magic. Witchcraft. and the worst evil things you can probably imagine in this video. I am traveling to a country where this

mysterious

religion is still practiced to understand why everyone is so afraid of it. Upon doing some research, I also heard that this religion has a powerful power. Spirit floating in the air and my plan was to find out if they were lying to us all.

I give myself 48 hours to find this foreign floating spirit. I packed my bags and left Lagos to head to Benin Republic, a neighboring country for Nigeria. I had to do this trip by water because going by road was going to take forever and we only had 48 hours. I arrived in Cotonou, a large port city on the southern coast of Benin Republic and the first thing I did was head to the streets to begin my investigation by walking looking for clues and signs of anything that could connect me to some

voodoo

worshiper. The more I searched, the more I realized that I was looking for the right information in a city as big as Cotonou that was around. 79 square kilometers was not going to be an easy task, we finally came across an emergency post that said that there was a

voodoo

festival in the city of Guida, which was about 40 kilometers from where we were, it was called voodoo festival and it meant To attract fans and worshipers from all over the world, we hear that it is practiced more permanently here.

Hopefully we can find someone to give us more information. So what really is voodoo? This is one of the oldest practices and some of the deities we have in marijuana. who come from Nigeria, as they come from Nigeria, so we, Nigeria, Benin, will worship the same God, the ancient God, and this from our ancestors, Hudu is an ancient religion practiced by more than 30 million people in the nations of Benin, West Africa, Togo, Ghana and Nigeria. It has countless deities and animal sacrifices and human spirit possession events are very common. Hulu is said to be one of the

most

misunderstood religions in the world.

If this religion were practiced by so many people, is there more towards the ice? Why did he have millions of followers? I was curious. I wanted to find the real truth behind voodoo, so I kept researching. Guys, we finally arrive in Uida and our first stop is the Python Temple, which is right behind me. This is where snakes are worshiped. worship is something very normal in Benin as part of the voodoo culture, just as cartoons are celebrated in India, the person can abandon the agreement, this person is 35 years old, a person can live more than 70 years and is even considered a sign of Good luck, if a snake crosses our path, it's no big deal, look at the way the snake goes, generally pythons are wild animals, so why would anyone worship something that can hurt you or literally constrain you to death?

The pythons were just a small segment of Voodoo and I wanted to know more and also find the powerful Floating Spirit I had heard about and my time was quickly running out while we were living we stumbled upon a local tour guide who will give us more information on how find them. Before you look ahead here or you can start to tour the city, you will see them, it is just a group, it is two groups, foreign temples and other places, suddenly the whole street is filled with many people, mainly they have made the players in the sanctuary. that is the biggest shrine that protects the market and the people after here we go to the beach normally, why we will have a big ceremony according to him, it was the biggest voodoo celebration in Africa, so I decided to go abroad, I noticed it On my arrival there were people not only from Africa but mainly from America, Brazil, the Caribbean and many countries around the world, people had flown from other continents to attend this event and I found it really fascinating.

I have some people with me from the Caribbean. who really wanted to know about West Africa and their roots, they find out that they are from here and they are really interested in seeing the land and where they come from and then the Wood Festival really represents the spirit and the ancestor that I really brought them from return to this land. The Wood Festival is held every 10th of January in Benin Republic and is a way for the locals to celebrate and pay homage to their different voodoo deities on the beach, there were massive performances by the different followers of different deities .

With massive spectators from all over, there were so many thoughts running through my head, if so many people from other parts of the world were willing to attend this ceremony and it has many similarities to what we see in pop culture and movies today, then what? because? was voodoo so feared this is that you don't understand you want to stay away from those who can help me help other people that's why we are saying the four words that the day will come is not Evolution practices one of the lessons that What I have learned in life is that hating or loving anything always has to come from somewhere where we have been programmed to hate our own culture, it is our own value and by reading more articles on the Internet I discovered that another reason why voodoo is It is feared that it is actually due to racism.

Voodoo was first practiced in the Americas and the Caribbean by slaves of African descent who had been sent from West Africa due to a strong conviction for their religion. They rebelled and the slaves began killing their masters, leading to a civil war. At the end of the war, the Great Opportunity emerged victorious by overthrowing the richest colony in the world and creating the first black Republic. The high chair revolution sparked fear in other European and American colonies that relied on large numbers of slaves as plantation labor. Then they created laws. that prohibited the practice of African religions so what about the dark side of voodoo?

I mean people who eat for evil, what do devil rituals do, they are not the same, okay, but you will never use someone for a ritual to make money or understand something, but you chose to be evil you should be good you chose to be good to help people give life to people or you choose people to kill people it is a choice according to how voodoo can be used to protect and it can also be used for harm what matters is the person who wields it while the event progressed with different exhibitions and presentations. He was still searching for the floating spirit.

He had heard that his name was called Zhang Beto and he is believed to be the spirit of dead relatives among voodoo worshipers. the dead are taught to walk among the living it's time for the final performance I could see all the masquerades coming out there were different masquerades that represented different deities and they came out with different decorations the massive word alignment on this side this is what the masculine ones are like Come on to perform today, it was a celebration with drums and a lot of dancing and displays, guys, look, that's the Masquerade for a long time, let's see now, what if I told you that spinning mask is heavy, see, it has nothing in it?

You'd think I'm crazy right, take a look again, how can this be possible? How can a masquerade be dancing alone? Someone is there shaking one, two, three and then tell them there was no one today. You know, this is the beauty of voodoo for me. I mean, I don't know, people might say it's a trick. Everything I was seeing before me was against the laws of physics and I couldn't really explain it. It shows how powerful Africans are and we have to use it in the right way. We know that we simply do not have to be afraid of our own culture and history.

Those who practice voodoo believe that there is a visible world and an invisible world and that those words are intertwined. For them it is a transition to the invisible world. This is what our predecessors did. Still with us in spirit, if my father or grandfather is older, then I can call his spirit in a big masquerade and then he will pray for us, oh really, so that the spirit of your dead great-grandfather can go in there and pray for you , yes, and pray for Wow, over the years, American culture has appropriated African stories that are currently used in box office movies, an example is the movie Avatar Ewa, the great mother in Avatar one and two, They were obtained from erwa, which are spirits in the African religion of the Haitians.

Voodoo, another place I noticed these two was in the movie Black Panther, where you see them drinking herbs and going into a trance in the afterlife. This beer has close similarities to the voodoo culture that has been projected as evil. I guess if it makes money for Hollywood, then. It makes sense if I am going to take medicine for you now I will say that in the name of the Almighty because I did not create they have some music because I am using I should not associate with them we are not always aware of it the origins of our beliefs and from time to time when we need to reevaluate what we know and how we know it, that's why I'm making this video.

I am not a voodoo worshiper by any means but I am not a hater either, I am just looking to understand it and share what I experience with you for me I am a content creator believe me or not I have a very open mind yes everything What I see I learned, that does not mean that that is what I believe is correct, yes, but you travel, you learn, you open your mind Mom, if you are watching this video. I am still your lovely Christian son and I love Jesus. I also noticed that many African traditions and cultures are threatened by modern media and if it is voodoo.

It originated in West Africa, isn't there a point in trying to understand it? Only through education and knowledge of people with different beliefs can we overcome our fear of the unknown. So what did I learn from this adventure? One of the things I learned. The thing about Bene as a country and as a people is how accommodating they all are to each other's beliefs as they never interfere with the activities of other religious people, if you look forward that is a church yes and the opposite is a food, I mean, when they love something like that before.

It would be great if we could all be tolerant like the people of Benin and try to learn more about ourselves because only then can we begin to understand each other better. Thank you all for watching this video, if you loved it, hit the like button. and subscribe to the channel see you next time thanks