Talk:Maman Brigitte

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Content[edit]

Could we please get just a hair more content about her?

Second reference[edit]

The second reference link is broken, the website no longer exists Humbabba (talk) 21:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Syncretizations[edit]

Maman Brigitte is syncretized with St Brigit and shares many characteristics with other diasporic deities also syncretized to Brigit. Maman Brigitte may be directly inherited from a Celtic goddess, but she also shares many transculturated aspects with Oya/Iansa and Pomba Gira spirits tied to Exu. The article for Oya even directs here, the least the article could do is mention these ties. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:83:7E00:5121:DC66:543F:D9E4 (talk) 16:34, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Another note on this issue: The African and Haitian Orisha and Loa have been represented by saints' images that are often depicted as caucasian in the US stores that sell these statues. The camouflaging of the African and Haitian spirits as Catholic saints was only due to the struggle to survive during slavery and continued oppression in the diaspora. But the presence of these images in traditions like Santeria does not mean the Loa or Orisha are "white". White TV show casting directors who cast white actors to play characters who are clearly POC or mixed-race in the source material are not WP:RS, nor are neopagan bloggers, or pop culture websites that use those things as sources. In the main articles about these religions and religious figures, we are writing about these traditions, not pop culture distortions of them. If there is an IPC section or article, take it there. But we don't mix the pop culture distortions in with people's religion. Brigid being an Irish goddess and Saint, whose Saint image has been used to represent Maman Brigitte, due to the presence of fire and snakes, does not make Maman Brigitte, who is more of a Haitian manifestation of Oya, "white". - CorbieVreccan ^☊ ☼ 01:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Anachronism[edit]

"She drinks rum infused with hot peppers" This seems to be a late addition, distilled alcohol probably late middle ages or later and hot peppers (at least what we know as hot (red) peppers today) after the discovery of the Americas while I presume the godess would be prechristian. 150.227.15.253 (talk) 10:43, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is about the living tradition of an Afro-Diasporic, specifically Haitian Lwa, whose traditions have grown out of the combined cultures of enslaved people in Haiti and, later, New Orleans. While she has some similarities to African and Irish goddesses, she's not them. She may not have existed in her current form prior to the Middle Passage. If she did, she adapted to deal with the genocide. - CorbieVreccan ^☊ ☼ 01:19, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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