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houngan
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It is a voice used in Haiti to name a "priest of the voodoo nagoo religion". It has its origin in the word hounnongan, from the Dahomey language spoken in present-day Benin (Africa), formed with the prefix hun- which means "relative to voodoo", and gan which is the "priest, who dominates the spirits". See batuque .

  




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

In Creole language is the way to call an officiant, shaman or priest of voodoo rituals. It is especially used in Haiti. In feminine Mambo (priestess) is used.

  


John Rene Plaut

HOUNGAN football team of the Singapore premier league. It is the denomination for a male monk in the Haitian voodoo. A religious woman is called MAMBO

  



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