TEMPLE OF PYTHON, OUIDAH, BENIN REPUBLIC
In most parts of the world snakes are feared, but in Benin they are revered. Royal pythons are worshiped in Benin, especially in Ouidah. The good news is that royal pythons are not dangerous, but the bad news is that these sacred reptiles are welcome Beninese households where they are fed when the doors of the temple are opened at night. There is no fear when the locals welcome these slithering pythons into their living rooms like an honoured guest.
The Temple of Pythons is a small room of twelve square meters that houses 50 adult royal pythons. Take a picture with a python around your neck or stroke the snakes if you are scared of being strangled. Several shrines were built for offerings to the 'snake-god' Dagbe, but the biggest offerings come from the tourists who pay $1.50 to enter the Temple of the Sacred Python. Voodoo shrines and other relics can be viewed for this entry fee, but taking photos with the snakes can be costly.
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Voodoo festival attracts curious tourists
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Ouidan, Benin - January 10, 2013
1. Various, Voodoo worshipers seen dance around the Point of No Return monument
2. Various, Voodoo worshipers singing at the temple of pythons.
3. Mid, A voodoo priest wearing a neck chain made from goat horn and sea shells watch as a man slaughters a goat at the temple of pythons.
4. Mid, goats for sacrifice are seen tied down.
5. Various, Daagbo Hanoun, the voodoo pope, in dark sun glasses and a hand woven hat, offer prayers then bite the ears of a goat violently before the goat was slaughtered for sacrifice at the Temple of Pythons.
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A man slaughters a goat at the Temple of Pythons during the annual Voodoo Festival in Ouidah.
7. Various, Voodoo effigies on display during the annual Voodoo Festival in Ouidah, Benin.
8. Setup shot, Djbassi Manonwomin
9. Cutaway eight year old Badjiozona, young voodoo high priestess
10. Wide of Djbassi Manonwomin seated with other women and eight year old Badjiozona
12. SOUNDBITE (Fon): Djbassi Manonwomin , Voodoo priestess:
Voodoo does good things. If you make a sacrifice to them they will bless you, they will give you good health if you worship them and do not doubt. They are good voodoo who save peoples life but if you don't worship them very well that's your problem.
13. Various, Voodoo worshipers perform rituals before setting out for voodoo festival.
14. Voodoo chiefs stand outside the Temple of Pythons which is directly overlooking the catholic church that once hosted Pope Benedict.
Ouidan, Benin - January 9, 2013
15. Various, exterior of catholic church
16. Wide of back of voodoo statue of topless woman and church in background
17. Setup shot Jean Zossoujbo
18. Statue of a topless woman with a python around a neck
19. Setup shots, Jean Zossoujbo
20. Mid, a tourist walk past sign outside the Temple of pythons.
21. SOUNDBITE (Fon) : Jean Zossoujbo, a guide at the Temple of pythons
Every seven days we open the doors for the pythons to go out to eat. Those who are too full, who has big belly will stay inside.
22. Wide, Jean Zossoujbo shows a python
23. SOUNDBITE (Fon) : Jean Zossoujbo, a guide at the Temple of pythons
Sometimes the pythons will go to the catholic church and the priest will bring them back.
Ouidan, Benin - January 10, 2013
24. Wide, people walk past the Point of No Return monument
25. Various tourists buying things during the voodoo festival in Benin
26. SOUNDBITE (English): Marcia Burrell, Professor at SUNY Oswego
They are things that you can do in society that are catholic and voodun Voodoo, they are parallel. It makes you really think of what is the purpose of religion and how we can't think of it the way Hollywood thinks about it, We got to think about voodoo as part of a cultural system.
27. Various, Voodoo worshipers sing and dance at the temple of pythons.
Ouidan, Benin - January 10, 2013
28. SOUNDBITE (English):Greg Fry, a tourist from Kamloops, British Columbia, in Canada
When you first see it, You conjure up all kinds of images that Hollywood has sent us, but I did read up about it and learn that's not what it is - it's a form of religion. It made me interested to see how this functions, what part does it play in their society.
Ouidan, Benin - January 9, 2013
29. Various guide with python around his neck
30. SOUNDBITE (Fon) : Jean Zossoujbo, a guide at the Temple of pythons
The tourist who are not courageous will not put the python around their neck but those are will put it around their neck.
32. Various, Aduare Achumba, a visitor to the Temple of Pythons, reacts as a guide puts a python on her head
UPSOUND: (English) Aduare Achumba
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Sosso a 9 ans et vit à Ouidah au Bénin. Sa famille vénère les pythons depuis des temps immémoriaux. C'est leur totem, la représentation de leur ancêtre le plus ancien. A Ouidah, les pythons sont des animaux sacrés et Sosso connait leur importance. Il est temps pour lui de recevoir son initiation...
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Il va partir à la quête de la découverte de son ancêtre, pour finir par quitter, à l'image du serpent qui mue, le monde de l'enfance pour devenir un homme.
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In most parts of the world snakes are feared, but in Benin they are revered. Royal pythons are worshiped in Benin, especially in Ouidah. The good news is that royal pythons are not dangerous, but the bad news is that these sacred reptiles are welcome Beninese households where they are fed when the doors of the temple are opened at night. There is no fear when the locals welcome these slithering pythons into their living rooms like an honoured guest.
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ORIGIN OF THE WORSHIP OF PYTHON IN OUIDAH, BENIN REPUBLIC-FESTOUR
Quidah is a centre of the vodun religion in Benin-republic. And arguably, in 1992 Quidah held the 1st International festival dedicated to culture of vodun.
Ouidah is a relatively small town about an hour or so from Cotonou. Quidah if at least according to the majority of sources, the center of the vodun religion.
One side of Quidah central square is the catholic Basilica towers which represents the christian influence but the python temple on the other side draws more tourists.
The temple of pythons is a small room of twelve square meters that houses 50 adult royal pythons.
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Les enfants du lycée à Ouidah ont participer à une formation de Vidéo-Montage. Voici l'un de leurs œuvres qui expose le Temple de Python de Ouidah.
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TRAVELING PRINCESS AT VOODOO PYTHON TEMPLE AT OUIDAH, BENIN
Contrary to what others believe, Voodoo isn’t a cult, black magic or devil worship. People who practice Voodoo are not witchdoctors, sorcerers or occultists. Voodoo isn’t a practice intended to hurt or control others. It is a religion like any others. Those who practice Voodoo believe that there is a visible and an invisible world, and that these worlds are intertwined. Death is a transition to the invisible world, so our predecessors are still with us in spirit. They watch over and inspire us. there are people with strong believe or conviction originated from Python of which our tour guide made us believe that he came from the Python and in that sense he worships the Python.
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