Loa vs Zoa - What's the difference?
loa | zoa |
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:
As nouns the difference between loa and zoa
is that loa is in the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings while zoa is plural of lang=en.As an initialism LOA
is leave of absence.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.