Saturday, April 10, 2010

2 comments:

Greyhoos said...

Un vévé? But I can't ID the loa.

SIMON REYNOLDS said...

it's a West African... ideogram I think is the word -- from that book by Robert Farris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy -- it has something to do with the afterlife as I recall

actually if it is a Kongo-style 'cosmogram' then that would make it an ancestor for the Vévé right

gosh i hope i'm not messing with Astral Forces here in my drivel-blog ....