New Orleans: Crescent of Darkness- A Threads of Damocles "A" Universe


	Ghede Lwa The Ghede are the spirits of the dead. They are traditionally led by the Barons (La Croix, Samedi, Cimitière, Kriminel), and Maman Brigitte. The Ghede as a family are loud, rude (although rarely to the point of real insult), sexual, and usually a lot of fun. As those who have lived already, they have nothing to fear, and frequently will display how past consequence and feeling they are when they come through in a service - eating glass, raw chillis, and anointing their sensitive areas with chilli rum for example. Their traditional colours are black and purple. Baron Saturday Baron Saturday (Samedi) is a lwa of the dead, along with Baron's other incarnations Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix, Uncle Skeleton and Baron Kriminel. Baron Saturday is usually depicted with a top hat, black tuxedo, dark glasses, and cotton plugs in the nostrils, as if to resemble a corpse dressed and prepared for burial in Haitian style. He has a white, frequently skull-like face (or actually has a skull for a face) and speaks in a nasal voice. He is one of the Ghede, or an aspect of them, or possibly their spiritual father. His wife is the lwa Maman Brigitte. Baron Saturday stands at the crossroads, where the souls of dead humans pass on their way to Guinee (the underworld.) As well as being the all-knowing lwa of death, he is a sexual lwa , frequently represented by phallic symbols and noted for disruption, obscenity, debauchery, and having a particular fondness for rum. Additionally, he is the lwa of love and resurrection. It is said that when you make a request of Baron Samedi, you use a cow's foot extended in place of your hand. When the Baron is ready to leave, he takes with him whatever he's holding. By substituting the cow forleg, you don't lose your arm! Maman Brigitte Maman Brigitte is a death lwa, the wife of Baron Samedi. She drinks hot peppers and is symbolized by a black rooster. Like Baron and the Ghede, she uses obscenities. She protects gravestones in cemeteries if they are properly marked with a cross.

Ghede Lwa

The Ghede are the spirits of the dead. They are traditionally led by the Barons (La Croix, Samedi, Cimitière, Kriminel), and Maman Brigitte. The Ghede as a family are loud, rude (although rarely to the point of real insult), sexual, and usually a lot of fun. As those who have lived already, they have nothing to fear, and frequently will display how past consequence and feeling they are when they come through in a service - eating glass, raw chillis, and anointing their sensitive areas with chilli rum for example. Their traditional colours are black and purple.

Baron Saturday

Baron Saturday (Samedi) is a lwa of the dead, along with Baron's other incarnations Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix, Uncle Skeleton and Baron Kriminel. Baron Saturday is usually depicted with a top hat, black tuxedo, dark glasses, and cotton plugs in the nostrils, as if to resemble a corpse dressed and prepared for burial in Haitian style. He has a white, frequently skull-like face (or actually has a skull for a face) and speaks in a nasal voice. He is one of the Ghede, or an aspect of them, or possibly their spiritual father. His wife is the lwa Maman Brigitte.

Baron Saturday stands at the crossroads, where the souls of dead humans pass on their way to Guinee (the underworld.) As well as being the all-knowing lwa of death, he is a sexual lwa , frequently represented by phallic symbols and noted for disruption, obscenity, debauchery, and having a particular fondness for rum. Additionally, he is the lwa of love and resurrection.

It is said that when you make a request of Baron Samedi, you use a cow's foot extended in place of your hand. When the Baron is ready to leave, he takes with him whatever he's holding. By substituting the cow forleg, you don't lose your arm!

Maman Brigitte

Maman Brigitte is a death lwa, the wife of Baron Samedi. She drinks hot peppers and is symbolized by a black rooster. Like Baron and the Ghede, she uses obscenities.

She protects gravestones in cemeteries if they are properly marked with a cross.