HOODOO Spirituality & Culture with Mama Yana

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HOODOO Spirituality & Culture with Mama Yana


The African American spiritual tradition of Hoodoo was passed down to Mama Yana through her family line for generations. In this video she discusses Hoodoo’s rich culture, customs, traditions, ancestral veneration and core values. Hoodoo has its roots in ancestral traditions from Africa. In this video Mama Yana draws parallels between the two…

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  1. Interesting. Evan as somebody who has studied the various Orisha traditions a lot, I still thought that Hoodoo, and Obea, were nothing but the spell craft aspects of African based practices, with the spiritual aspects gone. It seems like I was wrong.

  2. THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO HOWEVER I DO THINK YOU CAN LEARN SOMETHINGS FROM BOOKS AS WELL AS VIDEOS. EVERYTHING ISN'T PASSED DOWN FROM EVERYONE'S FAMILY CAUSE NOT ALL FAMILIES ARE THE SAME. I'M HAPPY YOU LADIES HAD AN ADVANTAGE OF HAVING SUCH OPENNESS. SOME OF US HAVE A FEELING IN OUR SOULS THAT THIS IS OUR NATURAL CONNECTION. AND SOME OF OUR ELDERS ARE GONE SO WE CAN'T QUESTION THEM. WE CAN'T GET BACK TO OUR NATURAL HERITAGE IF WE DON'T RESEARCH IN DIFFERENT WAYS.

  3. Wait!!!! Your mommy is from Yazoo!! The gateway to the delta!! 😮 I’m from/Currently reside in Yazoo this is just confirmation all in one the fact I found the video during this time 5AM 🤭👏🏽👏🏽 this is amazing

  4. Yes. That's true. Everything I know and experience and the way or level of knowledge and gifts and more all have came from time and self exploration or whatever. But the breakthrough happened when I started having suicidal tendencies and all, that's when I really started seeing and hearing and realizing over time and realized my purpose and who and what I am to God, myself, family and the world to the point of having like minded conversations with all types of people and societies. Our spirituality are real and obvious to few

  5. We are not saying the same thing. The point that was made in the video is that Hoodoo was born from a mix of ancient African spirituality and the adaptation to the new land, circumstances and needs. Not from mixing with other non-African traditions.

  6. Osiyo! I'm indigenous american and always grew with the women in my family doing hoodoo without really noticing. Spiritual workers who have indigenous american blood are being awakened, so we can show our respect, gratitude, and love to our ancestors during slavery and who were here far before slavery. ASE ❤ 🪶

  7. Very interesting talk but to say that Hoodoo or Haitian voodoo is its own practice and not a mix is really completely false. Haitians know they're direct descendants of the Beninese – Benin being the birthplace of voodoo, Benin being one of the main places that Africans left the continent, hence why every year when we have our annual voodoo festival people from Haiti, Cuba or Brazil come to Benin. I can understand that as African Americans we at times receive the warm welcome we would like from Africans and as an African, racism led many African Americans to show newly arrived Africans, post slavery contempt and a desire to distance ourselves from Africans but to say that Hoodoo, Nigerian practices etc are not mixes or bear no influence from other spiritual practices is completely incorrect.