potomitan

potomitan englanniksi

1. A sacramental post or pillar in the middle of the peristyle in front of a voodoo temple, used as the focus of certain rituals.

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1953|author=Maya Deren|title=Divine Horsemen|publisher=McPherson & Company|year_published=2004|page=36

3. (quote-text)|title=The Serpent and the Rainbow|page=226|publisher=Simon & Schuster

4. 1995, (w), in Cosentino (ed.), ''Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou'', South Sea International Press 1998, p. 277:

Next, swinging a censer, Divié blessed the poto mitan and all the ounsis who raised their skirts and swished them around to get the full effect of the incense.

5. {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Kevin Filan|title=The Haitian Vodou Handbook|publisher=Destiny Books|page=36

6. {{quote-text|en|year=2009|editors=Molefi Kete Asante; Ama Mazama|title=Encyclopedia of African Religion|volume=1|page=394