Ogou Balendjo

Haitian Vodou · deity · Haitian Vodou traditional religion; continuing · deity

AN OGOU WHO HEALS, IN A CORPUS WHOSE ONLY OGOU IS A WARRIOR-SMITH. OGOU BADAGRIS NOW HAS A RECORD, AND THE STORY OF HOW IS THE POINT. When this record was written, vodou_ogou carried 'Ogou Badagri' as an alias, so a record for him would have duplicated a name the corpus already resolved, and correcting that would have meant mutating a pre-existing record - which no lane was then permitted to do. He was censused EXISTING with the reason, and named as the sharpest form of the never-mutate cost the programme had found: not a missing alias, but a second figure hidden inside another figure's alias list, where no sweep would ever report him absent. THE OWNER THEN RULED THAT A LANE MAY EDIT AN ALIAS LIST, and the next lane removed the alias and created vodou_ogou_badagri.

Domains

healing
strength
spiritual medicine
nago nation

Relations

of the ogou with: Ogou Feray

Sources

Reference treatment of the Ogou: Ogou Badagris is a powerful lwa of the Nago nation and a general in the armies of Ogou; Ogou Balendjo is a Haitian Vodou lwa of healing, strength and spiritual medicine; the Nago nation, which originates from Yorubaland, includes many of the Ogou lwa, most of whom use Ogou as a kind of family name.

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