''Veve''

By Crusader1307

''Veve'' is s form of religious symbolism used in Haitian Voodoo. It is based on various types of West Congo pictography relating to the written word in those African Tribes. The Veve is a link in conjuring various Loas, and is initiated by drawing the various images onto the ground with red colored gunpowder or related powder substance. Sometimes, ash wood is burnt and used. Various rituals which require sacrifices are performed on a Veve. Permanent drawings are often hung on walls of followers as a form of Iconography to their ''chosen'' Deity.