From: eddie@hermes.oit.unc.edu (Edward M. Averett)
Subject: Re: Santeria and Voodoun
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:44:05 GMT

In article <BxI1M0.IrL@ddsw1.mcs.com> eshin@ddsw1.mcs.com (Eshin-Fun) writes:
>Do I detect a tinge of jaundiced envy?
>.....whaaa, your babalawo???? since when do Voodounists that believe in loas
>have babalaos? You do say you serve the loa....which?? 
>Your eccletic synchronicity betrays not only your vast ignorance but your
>conceited conclusions that leave far more to be desired that Migene
>Gonzalez-Wippler's books on an attempt to capitalize on American audiences'
>interest on Santeria!
>
>You don't even know my gender. I deliberately not made that clear. So where
>do you assume I am a Mr.? 
>
>Before you go off and venemnously go off to spout dribbles of misleading
>opinions go to the library yourself, or better yet play in the traffic and
>see if >your< `babalao' will have better advise for you then.
>
>Joseph Capbell is a nice drop but unfortunately his interest do not have as
>much of an impact as Fernando Ortiz who wrote profusely on the
>subject....but then again I don't think you can read spanish let alone
>french where a better source of material exists.
>
>I >have< noticed that several libraries painfully lack boks on santeria,
>either because the librarians take them off the shelves or because the
>readers rip them off. Very few libraries carry anything worth while.
>
> Eshin-fun
>
Oops!  Sorry guys!  I mistakenly gave Mr. Eshin-fun the benefit of the 
doubt in the last post, and posted a neutral discussion of some biblio
source material, and some basic info. Pardon me. I take back what I said
about it being possible that Mr. Eshin-fun knows more about this subject
than he does about others. -) 

Mr. Fun.  My godfather is both initiated into both Santeria and into 
Haitian Voodoun. As a santerian, he is a babalawo. Since you are so rude
as to question the sincerity, integrity, and experiences of people you 
don't know anything about (me directly, and my godfather indirectly), I 
feel no compunctions in telling the net that you are, once again,
a narrow-minded little twit who thinks that the only legitimate 
sources in the world are the ones you have experienced.  You're wrong, 
and you're pitiably stupid. 

And yes, you're male.  Obviously so. No female on this list is as 
clearly Male-stupid are you are. Hah. 

I find it interesting that you responded to my post with such a 
venemous little diatribe.  Your insecurities are showing.  One suspects
that you are sufficiently passive-aggressive and insecure enough that 
one of your main jo-jos in life is to post aggressive mail to the net
in order to inflate your pathetic ego, and that you will welcome this 
prod in your backside to order to spout more flames, thereby showing your
feeble intellect off again.  Have fun.    -)  

As for your personal and rather pathetic attempt to inquire into my 
personal religious beliefs, I serve All the Loa.  That you seem to think
that you do not is also telling. 

>eclectic synchronicity   
	???? what?  am I being insulted? -) 

				-May the collective deities break your feet,
					-eddie
					-rabid bunny.