Loa vs Boa - What's the difference?
loa | boa |
In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 714:
Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa , including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico, and the chevalier boa of Peru.
A type of scarf typically made from feathers.
As a verb loa
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(wikipedia loa)Noun
(en-noun)- Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa'' (Haitian equivalent of ''orisha ) Dambala Wèdo.