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Undated

Undated: (Marinette, the Fierce and Vindictive Kongo Lwa Depicted as an Owl, Feared for Her Power but Revered as a Spirit Who Can Break the Chains of Bondage…

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Undated: (Marinette, the Fierce and Vindictive Kongo Lwa Depicted as an Owl, Feared for Her Power but Revered as a Spirit Who Can Break the Chains of Bondage, Syncretized With the Catholic Image of the Forsaken Soul in Purgatory): Marinette is one of the most feared lwa in the Vodou system, a powerful and vindictive spirit belonging to the Kongo nation. She is often depicted as an owl, and her colors are black and blood red. But fear is only half her story. Marinette is also understood as a lwa who can help her people break free of bondage, which gives her a particular resonance in a spiritual tradition born under slavery. Her Catholic counterpart is the Anima Sola, the “Forsaken Soul” shown languishing in Purgatory, an image that captures something of Marinette’s essential nature: suffering transformed into spiritual force. She is not gentle, she is not safe, and that is precisely why the enslaved and their descendants turned to her.