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Ola vs Loa - What's the difference?

ola | loa |

Loa is a anagram of ola.



As nouns the difference between ola and loa

is that ola is an alternative form of olay while loa is in the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.

As a proper noun Ola

is {{given name|female}} used in the U.S. in the end of the nineteenth century.

As an initialism LOA is

leave of absence.

ola

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    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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