Blondine, ready to dance in the temple of Badjo

<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: LucidaGrande; mso-bidi-font-family: LucidaGrande"><FONT face=Calibri>The farmer class (the majority is now urbanized), has integrated the slavery memory in other forms of narrations than the family oral telling. It has a collective ancestral memory, organized around the Voodoo religion, as a primary place of expression. The convent of Badjo is part of the so-called "Golden Triangle", which includes the three most important sacred places in the country: the "Lakou Badjo", the "Lakou Souvenence" and the "Lakou Soukri. Each lakou, literally "convent", corresponds to three different rites, respectively Nago, Dahomey and Congo. The three lakou maintain sacred objects of general Jean Jacques Dessalines, who is venerated as the first deity of the Haitian Voodoo pantheon, Ogu, the god of the war.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "ArialMT",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT'><?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN>

Blondine, ready to dance in the temple of Badjo

<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: LucidaGrande; mso-bidi-font-family: LucidaGrande"><FONT face=Calibri>The farmer class (the majority is now urbanized), has integrated the slavery memory in other forms of narrations than the family oral telling. It has a collective ancestral memory, organized around the Voodoo religion, as a primary place of expression. The convent of Badjo is part of the so-called "Golden Triangle", which includes the three most important sacred places in the country: the "Lakou Badjo", the "Lakou Souvenence" and the "Lakou Soukri. Each lakou, literally "convent", corresponds to three different rites, respectively Nago, Dahomey and Congo. The three lakou maintain sacred objects of general Jean Jacques Dessalines, who is venerated as the first deity of the Haitian Voodoo pantheon, Ogu, the god of the war.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "ArialMT",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT'><?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN>