Dom Pedro
Haitian Vodou · mortal · Haitian Vodou traditional religion; continuing · mortal
HE IS INGESTED BECAUSE THE CORPUS WOULD OTHERWISE HOLD A DEIFICATION WITHOUT THE MAN DEIFIED - the same fault at one remove that lane 25 found in Sertapsuruhi's father and lane 27 in Lo-Ngam. He falls on the ingest side of the line lane 27 stated: what the sources transmit of him is that he founded a rite and became a lwa, not a dated biography. AUTHORED mortal AND WITHOUT parentIds, so the record returns the authored type and asserts no descent.
Domains
- founding of the petwo rite
- priesthood
Relations
- deified as: Dan Petro
Sources
- Reference treatment of the Petwo lwa: the Petwo are a family of lwa regarded as volatile and hot, in contrast with the Rada, who are regarded as sweet-tempered and cool; Dan Petro is a violent lwa, the deification of the legendary founder of the Petwo rite, the houngan Dom Pedro; Ti Jean Petro is a powerful lwa and the son of Dan Petro, known as a trickster with a fierce nature and a connection to fire and heat; Marinette is a lwa of power and violence; Bosou is portrayed as a man with bull horns and is served in the Petwo rite.