Loa vs Goa - What's the difference?
loa | goa |
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:
(music) A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India (also Goa trance ).
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)- 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.