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'''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]]'')

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, [[Omega|the Engineer]] referred to them as loa. Rassilon, however said they weren't spirits. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')

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.

Godfather [[Avatar]] was a loa, and was capable of riding a human psyche. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved...]]'')

 

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]]'')