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Loa vs Goa - What's the difference?

loa | goa |

As nouns the difference between loa and goa

is that loa is in the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings while Goa is a form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India (also Goa trance).

As an initialism LOA

is leave of absence.

As a proper noun Goa is

state in western India which has Panaji as its capital.

loa

English

(wikipedia loa)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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:
  • 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.

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    goa

    English

    (wikipedia Goa)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • State in western India which has Panaji as its capital.
  • Noun

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  • (music) A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India (also Goa trance ).
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