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• lwa

語源

Borrowed from Haitian Creole lwa.

発音

• enPR: lōʹə
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈləʊ̯ə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈloʊ̯ə/
• (New York) IPA: /ˈlʌʊ̯ə/
• (non-rhotic accents) Homophone: lower
• 韻: -əʊə

名詞

loa (plural loas or loa)

1. In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
   • 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 36:

     Here, on the Island Below the Sea, the loa have their permanent residence, their primal location.

   • 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 3:

     Some will caution you at great length about the dangers of Vodou. They will tell you that the lwa are jealous, thin-skinned, and hot-tempered.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 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.

アナグラム

• -ola, AOL, Lao, OAL, Ola, ola