> This weekend, preferably on Saturday, I plan
> to do an ancestral feast. I invite you all
> to join me! This ancestral feast will be
> followed by a service for Baron the following
> Saturday.
>
> We will be discussing this work on my forum
> found at:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mambo_Racines_Vodou_Forum
>
> The instructions for building an altar and
> performing an ancestral feast are on The
> VODOU Page on Vodou Lesson 4:
>
> http://members.aol.com/racine125/vleson4.html
>
> Let's get ready - find yourself a nice
> piece of white cloth and a vessel for
> water, and start thinking about what food
> items you are going to offer. Serve your
> ancestors food you know they liked, if you
> have an idea. Also black coffee with sugar,
> and black coffee without sugar, popcorn or
> roast corn, bread, especially flat cassava
> bread, fruit cola, salt mackerel (NOT
> the white salt cod called "bacalao" in
> Spanish, the brown strong-smelling
> salt mackerel) and of course lots and
> lots of PEPPER! You can go to any supermarket
> and get "habaneros" in the produce section.
>
> Ready set go!
>
> Peace and love,
>
> Mambo Racine
>