He wears a black top hat, black suit, and may be smoking one of his beloved cigars. Syncretized means to attempt to unite and harmonize especially without critical examination or logical unity.īaron Samedi manifests as an older, dark-skinned man in formal attire, dressed completely in black. He may also be syncretized to Saint Expedite, and with Saint Martin de Porres. In Congolese cosmology, the cross is the symbol of the life cycle: death – birth – rebirth. It is possible that Baron Samedi’s associations with the cross may pre-date christianity. If one lens keeps popping out of your dark glasses, the Baron may be seeking your attention or offering his patronage.īaron Samedi is syncretized to Jesus Christ as they share the symbol of the cross.
He is the guardian of ancestral knowledge and the link to your ancestral spirits. Spirit of the undying life-force, he may be petitioned for fertility.
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He prefers that children live full lives before joining him in the cemetery.īaron Samedi is the crossroads where sex and death meet. Baron Samedi is lewd, obscene, and vulgar, but he can be just and kind. Baron Samedi rules the cemetery: no one can die until he gives permission for their grave to be dug. He is a powerful healer and is especially sympathetic to terminally ill children. When someone dies, he digs their grave and greets their soul after they have been buried, leading them to the underworld. He loves smoking and drinking and is rarely seen without a cigar in his mouth or a glass of rum in his bony fingers.īaron Samedi can usually be found at the crossroads between the worlds of the living and the dead. He is married to another powerful spirit known as Maman Brigitte, but often chases after mortal women. He is notorious for his outrageous behavior, swearing continuously and making filthy jokes to the other spirits. Additionally, he is the loa of resurrection, and in the latter capacity he is often called upon for healing by those near or approaching death, as it is the only Baron who can accept an individual into the realm of the dead.īaron Samedi spends most of his time in the invisible realm of vodou spirits. He is noted for disruption, obscenity, debauchery, and having a particular fondness for tobacco and rum. He may be petitioned to remove bothersome ghosts and invoked to ward off death. He determines whether they can come visit or not. He is invoked to contact and communicate with the dead. On Saturday, even Jesus must answer to the Baron, Lord of the Dead.īaron Samedi is Grand Master of the Celestial Masonic Lodge of Vodou Spirits, a thirty-second degree initiated Mason. Baron Samedi literally means Baron Saturday, which may sound innocuous compared to Baron Cemetery, or Krininel, but Saturday was the one day when Christ was really truly dead, the day between the crucifixion on Friday and resurrection on Sunday. When people speak of the Baron, they tend to mean Baron Samedi. He presides over a sprawling, confusing, complex clan of spirits. Patronage: Death, tombs, gravestones, cemeteries, dead relatives, obscenities, healing, smoking, drinking, disruption, spiritsīaron Samedi is one of the loa of Haitian Vodou. He is the leader of the Barons and possibly the Gedes.Venerated in: Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, Folk Catholicism.
Consort: Madame Brigitte (Maman Brigitte).Also known as: Bawon, Samedi, Bawon Sanmdi, Baron Saturday, Baron Sandi.Titles: Master of the Cemetery, Lord of the Dead.
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