Speaking In Vodou Analysis

The first Christian Pentecost occurred, according to Acts, when the disciplines were gathered for this feast after Jesus’ ascension, they were filled with the Holy Spirit. [Also] The early church saw the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles at PENTECOST as the outpouring of divine gifts of holiness, love, healing, and speaking in TONGUES….Speaking in tongues is a (glossolalia) is a Christian religious phenomenon in which the believer, in an ecstatic state, speak in a foreign language or utters unintelligible sounds that are taken to contain a divine message.24

Gert Chesi informs that the phenomenon of Loa trance/Mounting in Vodou is perceived as:
In the trance-like state, gods and human [connection] is…actualized. If through the ritual a god is forced to come, the dancer loses his or her
I told her what had happen at the Vodou ceremony the following night. The story amazed her but she could not thoroughly understand what I been through and how I was feeling. A few days later I called the Vodou Sanctuary and Mambo Angela invited Ife and I to their 9:00 AM, Sunday service. Ife and I arrived to the address given to us at 9:30 AM and was let into a well-decorated home packed with people dressed in white clothing (we wore white also). We sat in the living room for an hour before Mambo Angela came downstairs and gave the order that service would start soon and for everyone go into the basement. Ife and I were escorted to the large basement and that is when we realized where the Vodou Sanctuary was located. The Sanctuary was beautifully and colorfully decorated with flowers, burning candles and incenses, Haitian artifacts, statues of Catholic saints, Vodou artwork on the walls, red thick pole in the center of the floor and drums on the side of the Alter. Ife and I were introduced to the approximately fifty people that were present and welcomed to the Le Peristyle Haitian Vodou