| 单词 |
Rada |
| 释义 |
Rada2|ˈrɑːdə|
[App. ad. Allada, the name of a former principality of Dahomey (now Benin).]
The name of a group of deities of West African derivation venerated in Haiti; the worship of these deities. Also attrib.
1929W. B. Seabrook Magic Island i. i. 11, I knelt at last before the great Rada drums. Ibid. iii. 43 Some..danced, not the mad Rada of the night, but boisterous, gay Congo dances. 1937M. J. Herskovits Life in Haitian Valley viii. 149 When vodun deities are discussed in Mirebalais, most often two ‘companies’ of them are mentioned, the Rada and the Pétro ‘squads’. 1941J. G. Leyburn Haitian People vii. 145 To the spirits..not drawn from Christianity the name ‘loa’ is applied. There seem in general to be two classes of these: those who have an African origin, and those with a Haitian background only. The former group is called ‘Rada’, the latter ‘Petro’. 1957Amer. Anthropologist LIX. 821 Members of two African-derived religions, Yoruba ‘Shango’..and Dahomean ‘Rada’..consider themselves also to be Roman Catholics. |
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