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'''Loa''' was a word used in [[Haiti]] to refer to a type of spirit or [[god]] found in [[voodoo|voodoo/vodoun]] religions. They differed from other gods and [[angel (mythology)|angels]] in that they didn't exist far above people. Instead of being worshipped the loa were treated as friends who could be talked to, who could dance with the priests and priestesses, and who were capable of becoming drunk and angry like anyone else. They could be used as symbols that were both real and not quite real. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')  
'''Loa''' (also called '''dakina''') were a type of spirit or [[god]] found in [[voodoo|voodoo/vodoun]] religions. They differed from other gods and [[angel (mythology)|angels]] in that they didn't exist far above people. Instead of being worshipped, the loa were treated as friends who could be talked to, who could dance with priests and priestesses, and who were capable of becoming drunk and angry like anyone else. They could be used as symbols that were both real and not quite real. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')


The loa of Haitian vodoun were one of the few groups of [[Immortal]]s still acting as gods well into the [[20th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') They consisted of the [[Rada Loa]] and the [[Petro god]]s, good and bad spirits that included [[Samedi|Baron Samedi]] and [[Catholic]] [[saint]]s such as [[Patrick (saint)|Saint Patrick]]. [[Cthulhu]] was honoured by a small group whose [[Great Old One]] worship originated in [[Dahomey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness (novel)|White Darkness]]'') The revolutionary [[Mackandal]] and his followers payed homage to the Catholic saints. Mackandal himself was believed to have underwent some kind of transformation at the moment of his death. His followers expected him to return one day as a messianic figure. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'')
When [[Faction Paradox]] initiated [[Fitz Kreiner]] into their group, he was said to have been touched by the loa. The Faction noticed that the concept of a celebrity was similar in that they could be viewed by transmissions but remained apart from people and they could become the face of their ideas. On the [[human]] colony world [[Ordifica]], the Faction fully infiltrated the media-obsessed culture within a couple years to create loa in the [[medianet]]. [[The Remote]] carried on a belief in loa. They referred to powers that [[Rassilon]] barred from entering [[N-Space]] as loa, including [[The Cold (Interference)|the Cold]]. In their dramatisation of a group of beings breaking into N-Space, [[the Engineer (Interference)|the Engineer]] referred to them as loa. Rassilon, however said they weren't spirits. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')


[[Dreekan voodoo]] had [[Treeka'dwra]] a messianic beast-god. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Storm Harvest (novel)|Storm Harvest]]'')
From the perspective of the [[Great Houses]], who saw [[history]] as a quantifiable string of equations, loa did not exist. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)|Weapons Grade Snake Oil]]'') When Mother [[Tarra]] invoked the loa among a [[coven]] of young [[Gallifreyan]]s, [[Kellen (The Ancestor Cell)|Kellen]] preferred to refer to them as equations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') However, Faction Paradox rebelled against this formulation by defining history as an ever-changing pattern, and just as shapes can be seen in clouds in the sky, the loa could be seen in time.


When [[Faction Paradox]] initiated [[Fitz Kreiner]] into their group, he was said to have been touched by the loa. The Faction noticed that the concept of a celebrity was similar in that they could be viewed by transmissions but remained apart from people and they could become the face of their ideas. On the [[human]] colony world [[Ordifica]], the Faction fully infiltrated the media-obsessed culture within a couple years to create loa in the [[medianet]]. [[The Remote]] carried on a belief in loa. They referred to powers that [[Rassilon]] barred from entering [[N-Space]] as loa, including [[The Cold (Interference)|the Cold]]. In their dramatisation of a group of beings breaking into N-Space, [[the Engineer (Interference)|the Engineer]] referred to them as loa. Rassilon, however said they weren't spirits. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'') A group of young [[Gallifreyan]]s in a [[coven]] led by Paradox member [[Mother Tarra|Tarra]] invoked the loa. [[Kellen (The Ancestor Cell)|Kellen]] preferred that they refer to them as equations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')
Godmother [[Kumo]] wrote on loa evocation for ''[[The Book of the Truce]]'', comparing stage-[[hypnosis]] to the Faction's use of ritual to appease, communicate, and bargain with the loa: as long as the volunteer is playing along (whether for fun, to avoid embarrassment, out of a sense of duty, or due to genuine hypnosis), the task will be performed, and the desired action will result. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)|Weapons Grade Snake Oil]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
Godfather [[Avatar]] was a loa, and was capable of riding a human psyche. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved...]]'')
* Besides the whole phrase "Rada Loa" in ''White Darkness'', ''Interference Books One & Two'' and ''The Ancestor Cell'' are the only novels that use the term "loa". In ''Deadly Reunion'' they are the "Haiti lot". ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' is referencing recycled historical material from [[Lawrence Miles]]' ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' in which he had wrote that Mackandal was said to have become a loa.
 
The [[Native American]]s called the loa spirits ''dakina''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
 
The loa of Haitian vodoun were one of the few groups of [[Immortal]]s still acting as gods well into the [[20th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') They consisted of the [[Rada Loa]] and the [[Petro god]]s, good and bad spirits that included [[Samedi|Baron Samedi]] and [[Catholic]] [[saint]]s such as [[Patrick (saint)|Saint Patrick]]. [[Cthulhu]] was honoured by a small group whose [[Great Old One]] worship originated in [[Dahomey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness (novel)|White Darkness]]'') The revolutionary [[Mackandal]] and his followers paid homage to the Catholic saints. Mackandal himself was believed to have underwent some kind of transformation at the moment of his death. His followers expected him to return one day as a messianic figure. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'')
 
[[Dreekan voodoo]] had [[Treeka'dwra]], a messianic beast-god. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Storm Harvest (novel)|Storm Harvest]]'')


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