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Loa vs Toa - What's the difference?

loa | toa |

As verbs the difference between loa and toa

is that loa is while toa is to thaw; (of ice and snow): to melt off due to warm weather.

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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    toa

    English

    (Toas)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small painted artifact made by the Diyari people of Australia, believed to have been used as place markers or signposts.
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