Temple of The Machete Who Wins all Battles.

  Erzulie Danthor — Queen of the Petro Loa, Mother of Fire and Revolution Erzulie Danthor Came Down at Bois Caïman Erzulie Danthor, Queen of the Petro Loa—warrior, mother, and sovereign of revolutionary fire—protector of the broken and terror to oppressors. Honored at the Temple of the Machete. Artwork and research by Kevin Wikse. Erzulie Danthor came down at the ceremony of Bois Caïman , when the world cracked and history changed. She took possession of the Vodou Mambo Cécile Fatiman , and with her arrival, the Haitian Revolution ceased to be a dream and became a sentence—passed and carried out. She did not come as comfort. She came as decision . That night, the Petro current ignited. Rage, grief, ancestral memory, and divine justice fused into something unstoppable. Erzulie Danthor was there not as ornament, not as metaphor, but as Queen . Queen of the Petro Loa Erzulie Danthor is the mother and sovereign of the Petro Loa —the hot spirits born of violence, enslavement, re...

Saint Sebastian Gran Bwa literally means "Big Wood," That is fitting because, as far as Loa goes, Gran Bwa is a BIG loa. Boss of the woods and chief of the forest, Gran Bwa is a centerpiece for the Vodou of the New World. Whether Puerto Rican/Sanse, Dominican/21 Divisions, Haitian/Ginen Vodou, and Haitian secret magical societies like the Mayaka (pure Petro), Gran Bwa stands in the middle. Gran Bwa resides in the Vilokan, the tremendous primordial forest of the heavenly realm of the Loa called Ginen. He is the most prominent and most potent Loa in the Vilokan, keeping order both natural and supernatural.  Gran Bwa's mysteries are like his roots, deep and vast. Without him, no genuinely practical magic can occur as he holds the secrets to all the herbs, roots, branches, and leaves. With those same herbs, roots, sticks, and leaves, Bran Gwa can make baths and washes, which will break the strongest of black magic and cleanse away all evil, or he can empower them, giving ...