Talk:Lwa

message: Hi there, I think the Link "Pie" links to the wrong page !?
: Fixed.  However, as I know nothing about the loa in question, do you feel like populating that page? Deborah-jl 13:36, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page link

message: I removed the passage "Also, unlike other Western gods, they are not easily categorised into archetypal forms." It is in direct contradiction with this passage on the page of Mambo Racine Sans Bout:
Many lwa are archetypal figures represented in many cultures. For example, Erzulie Freda is a love goddess comparable to Venus, Legba is a lwa of communication comparable to Hermes or Mercury.
Graf Bobby 21:49, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archetypal forms 

message: In the article, the forms lwa and loa are mixed. For example, section titles use lwa and the text below says loa'. WP articles should be consistent, so one form should be chosen and used consistently throughuout the article, while other should be mentioned, like any other alternative form should be. I won't do it since I'm not sure WHICH form should I retain. The article is named "Loa" though, and it is the widely recognized form. However, I cannot be sure if the "Lwa" form is perhaps more correct. --arny (talk) 18:38, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I know this is an old discussion at this point, but "Lwa" is now the accepted spelling in almost all reputable sources, as the "lwa" spelling is part of the standard orthography put forth by the Haitian government in 1979, and codified in English in a standardized English-Creole dictionary in 1981. That said, should we keep "Loa" as the article title and "Lwa" as the opening? Thoughts? Chiwara (talk) 18:55, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, my google search today gave 71,000 results for "loa" and "vodou", and 91,700 for "lwa" and "vodou", so it seems "lwa" is the more common usage at this point, although by a relatively small margin.Chiwara (talk) 19:01, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: We should WP:USEENGLISH when we can. "Loa" is usually the accepted spelling in English and Louisiana Creole may very well have their own spelling as well differing from the "recent" Haitian orthography. Yes, we should continue to remain consistent. Savvyjack23 (talk) 06:02, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article: naming consistency 

message: "L'wha" as an alternate spelling is now removed. There is no evidence to suggest that this isn't WP:OR. It has beenuUnsourced since 2001 by . A few recent books have been piggybacking this original research verbatim of the first line of this article since then and thus are not credibible.
Examples:
The Amazing Adventures of David Walker Blackstone: Special Edition Prologue Issue (2014), copied verbatim from this article and presented as a published book!
The Esoteric Codex: Haitian Vodou (2015), copied entirely from Wikipedia.
Do not re-add unless there are significant sources pre-dating 2001. I've also added the "etymology" of loa or lwa, which comes from the French "les lois" (the laws). Savvyjack23 (talk) 05:59, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed "L'wha" 

message: Removed unsourced material [Loa derives from the Aramaic term Eloah which means Holy Spirit]. Interesting though. Discuss. Savvyjack23 (talk) 04:42, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eloah 

message: I noticed that of the lwas listed in the List section that have their own article, the majority of these articles are one- or two-line stubs; sometimes sourced, sometimes unsourced for over a decade, but in nearly all cases probably not deserving of a standalone article. Would it be an idea to merge these stubs into a slightly more elaborate list that, if available, mentions one or two lines of information about each entry? Lennart97 (talk) 21:40, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  List and individual lwas