The Haitian revolution, voodoo and a cursed nation?

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The Haitian revolution, voodoo and a cursed nation?
Crypto-Rabbi M.G. "Pat" Robertson is an agent of the foreign power of the Israeli state who cheers the massacre of Palestinian civilians and does not object to rabbinic voodoo. He has called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Now he attributes the earthquake tragedy in Haiti to a centuries-old curse. Since even a broken clock is correct twice a day, could Robertson be on to something, or is he just pouring salt into the Haitian people's wounds with gross distortion?



Transcript of Robertson's remarks: "omething happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. Napoleon the Third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, "We will serve you if you get us free from the prince." True story. And so the devil said, "OK, it's a deal." They kicked the French out, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other, desperately poor. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It's cut down the middle, on the one side is Haiti, on the other side is the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island." (End quote from Robertson)

Here is the history:

In 1950, Haiti was only slightly poorer than other similarly sized Latin American countries. The country began to have negative growth during the 1957-1986 dictatorship of the Duvaliers (Papa Doc and Baby Doc).  Papa Doc ruled Haiti through a militia known as the Tonton Macoutes ("Uncle Bogeyman") which preyed on the superstitious with tales of its legendary Voodoo powers and supposed conscription of "zombies" into its ranks.

So, did the national misfortune ("curse") only begin with the Duvaliers? And is the earthquake damage so much more severe on the Haitian side of the island only because of its proximity to the center of the earthquake (a  few miles offshore from Port au Prince), as well as the shoddy buildings in Haiti? This would seem to be the case.

Mr. Robertson is wrong about who ruled France during the Haitian Revolution (a bloody revolt which  resulted in the massacre of whites). It began in 1791 and ended in 1804. "Napoleon III" did not come to power until 1848. Robertson must have meant the original Napoleon -- Bonaparte --who was not in power in 1791, the year of the supposed Haitian "pact with the devil."

It seems there was indeed a voodoo pact, however:

"Bois Caïman (lit. Cayman 1 Woods; Kreyòl: Bwa Kayiman ) is the site of the vodou ceremony presided over by Boukman Dutty and Cecile Fatiman on August 14, 1791. It is widely accepted as the starting point for the Haitian Revolution. Participants at Bois Caïman were also Georges Biassou, Jeannot Bullet and Jean François Papillon, all of which were leaders of the early Haitian Revolution. Bois Caïman is located in the northern Morne Rouge region of Haiti, southwest of Cap Haïtien. Most of the trees of Bois Caïman have long since been felled -- gone, like so much of the other magnificent timber in Haiti, to meet the immediate fuel, housing and trading needs of the often-desperate Haitians. Protestants have also been alleged to remove trees in their zeal to combat vodou and there have been frequent attempts to hinder the annual remembrance of the event."(End quote)

The actual wording of the "pact," prayer or whatever one wishes to term it, does not seem particularly sinister:

N. and R. Heinl, in their book Written in Blood, give the following translation of the Bwa Kayiman prayer: "Good Lord who hath made the sun that shines upon us, that riseth from the sea, who maketh the storm to roar; and governeth the thunders, The Lord is hidden in the heavens, and there He watcheth over us. The Lord seeth what the blancs have done. Their god commandeth crimes, ours giveth blessings upon us. The Good Lord hath ordained vengeance. He will give strength to our arms and courage to our hearts. He shall sustain us. Cast down the image of the god of the blancs, because he maketh the tears to flow from our eyes. Hearken unto Liberty that speaketh now in all your hearts." (Heinl p. 43)

The following information from a New Age website may be factual, or it may constitute wishful thinking and an embroidering of the facts:

CEREMONY BWA KAYIMAN

Hundreds of years ago, Africans in the plains and valleys, forced to be passive every second of the day in order to survive the European planter's lashes, would sneak out in the dead of night, up the rocky Maroons' mountain roads to secret forest caves and hidden clearings, for the Vodun ceremonies, where they would watch their kinfolks practicing the art of war, productively sloughing-off impacted rage to the Vodun drum's syncopated beats... Haitian children learned in Vodun ceremonies the uses of cutting and slicing a chicken and goat's throat, early on in life, for the time when the Petwo nations would come and mount them, so they would stop being the sacrificial lambs, the scapegoats whose blood was being lapped up by the white settlers.

So, in Vodun, there is the time before the Petwo nations arrived to the war dance to unify the cocktail of multilingual African tribes - and the time after. The more temperate nations that were there before, subduing Petwo were called Rada. Originating like Petwo, from West and Central African peoples.

But the Africans who became Haitians in the land of the Taino/Arawak Amerindians had to pull hard for the psychic energy within themselves that would allow them to kill the current of negative European energies swallowing them whole.

And when these Blacks, on a hilltop at a wood clearing called "Bwa Kayiman," had reached back, past their divisions, past even the God making impulses that creates dictators. Way back. Past self-gratification. Past giving any one particular element - spirit or thought abstraction - omniscient sovereignty; way past these twilights and a thousand eternities. Then this, this spiritual consensus, this, a new psychic wave, was reached. The differing African groups in Haiti were then so quickened, that together as one PSYCHIC FORCE, they had passed Babylon's babbling towers, setting a new watercourse beyond forever: transmuting mental spasms and a cacophony of noises into ONE TONGUE, one powerful action - swearing to God and the Devil to be free or die.

And when Agaou's thunder clapped next, the cosmic sea - home of the ancestral deities, of all the lwas who had become abstracted over many generations - that sea opened; Africa's sacred abstractions had come to life. A new nation called Haitian was formed, where unity lives in veins reaching the cosmic center - that nexus between the spheres of the living and dead, between action and reflection. Then, the Haitian Revolution came, beating back Napoleon's forces, then the English, Spanish and French again. Twice. This, Petwo's multination red force and strength, works when Rada is its base. Rada and Petwo, they spewed forth together as one, each making way for the stronger. They are the Lovers-of-Liberty, economic democracy-in-action. And their strongest symbol was Ezili Dantò - the feminine principle who carries a dagger.
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Posted by Michael Hoffman at 1/13/2010 08:16:00 PM
Labels: Bois Caiman, curse, Duvalier, earthquake, Haiti, Napoleon III, Pat Robertson, Voodoo

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