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Updated 30 January 1999

• Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
  These four fine folks are trying to present succinct factual information about as many religions as they can. If you can add anything constructive to what they say about your own religion, please send them friendly e-mail and help them keep their pages correct and up-to-date. They deserve our support in their much-needed effort.

Afro-Diasporic Religions

• Yoruba Religion
• Yoruba Art
• Oyotunji Village
  a West African style village in USAmerica
  this link is no longer valid. Anyone know of another site discussing this village?

Afro-Diasporic Religions in General

• The Caribbean Religion Center - with pages on Santeria and Vodou

Santeria/ Loucumi/ Ifa

• Ifa Foundation of North Ameria
  lots of good information by published author and initiated priest, Phillip Neimark, whose book i recommend.
• Ijo Orunmila
  a Santeria/Loucumi "house", attractively designed, good information
• Orisha List Index
  has essays by several santeria practitioners on a variety of topics.Recommended
• OrishaNet
  has been expanding with lots more interesting pages of tales and information
• Santeria in America: From Cuba to New York, and back...
• Orisha Art Gallery
  Oh, dear, no longer valid - i'll see where it has moved...
• Henrick's Orisha Page
  He's Swedish, but he's got a nicely designed page with lots of good links.

Palo Mayombe

• InquiceWeb
  Has information on Nkisi, Palo Mayombe, and other often misunderstood Kongo-influenced traditions in the New World.

Vodou/Voudon

• The Vodou Page of Mambo Racine Sans But
  "Racine Sans But" means "Roots without End". Her pages are full of interesting, informative, and intelligent essays. She even includes links to other related sites, which few Vodou & Santeria pages seem to do. Recommended.
• The Voodoo Server
  Voodoo in Haiti - from Medicine to Zombies
• Voodoo Info Pages
• Le Peristyle Haitian Sanctuary
  has lots of good photographs.
• Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou
  Vodou Paquets, "magical amulets" from Haiti at the Fowler Museum of UCLA.
• Sequined Spirits: Contemporary Vodou Drapeaux
  sequined and beaded "flags" for the loa at the Fowler Museum of UCLA
  And thanks to Len Gilbert of the New Orleans Voodoo pages (see "American Hoodoo" below) for these two Fowler Museum URLs.
• More Vodou Drapeaux
  at the E-Gallery
• Vodoun Culture

Candomble, Umbanda, and Afro-Brazilian religions

• Ile Axe Opo Afonja, an Umbanda "house," a Brazilian tradition, is available in both Portuguese and English
• Editoras Pallas Afro-Brasil Publishing
  lots of good information, some in English, all in Portuguese, with extremely attractive graphics. Recommended
• Esoteric Umbanda of Brazil
• Irmandade da Boa Morte - The Sisterhood of the Good Death , a traditional women's spiritual and self-help group in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Lovely photographs of the members. My thanks to Adenor Gondim, who maintains this website, for sending me the URL.

American Hoodoo & Voodoo from the Deep South

• The New Orleans Voodoo and Cemetary Page
  Len Gilbert's graphically attractive site with photographs of historic sites in New Orleans. Don't miss Baron Samedi's portrait. And Len has links to quite a few more related sites.

Traditions of Shamanism and Trance

• Javanese Mysticism
  has information about the mystical Indonesian form of spirituality known as Kebatinan.
• Hawaiian deities
  illustrated with traditional Hawaiian art at the Hawaii Resource Library. Hmmm, can't seem to access this again. I'll look for a new URL...
• The Incantor
  Aado Lintrop's WWW Pages about Siberian Shamanism and the religions of Finno-Ugrian peoples
• Psychedelic Shamanism - Indigenous, Traditional, and Modern
  at the Deoxyribonucleic Autonomous Zone.
• Seeker1's CyberAnthropology Page
  has great essays on such subjects as trance-possession, Cyberpunk as a Counterculture, Modern Primitives, Anthrofuturism, and other fascinating topics.

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