Offerings:
Candles, sweets, roasted corn, black beans and white rice, black and white candles, salt and pepper, molasses, honey, pudding, two dolls, three-chambered bowl.
Litany:
Pour les Marassa, Jumeaux sacres qui se reflentent de chaque cot du miroir. Les Jumeaux qui partagent une ame, a la fois opposes, et egaux. Deus deux, toutes choses. Acceptez nos offrandes. Entrez dans nos coeurs, dans nos bras, dans nos jambes. Entrez ici. Dansez avec nous.
Kreyol:
Pou Marasa ki paret sou de fas toun glas. Marasa k gen youn sel nan'm pou yo de. Opoze ak egal. Aksepte ofran'n nou. Antre nan ke nou, nan bra nou, nan jam'm nou. Antre vin'n danse avek nou.
Translation:
For the Marassa, sacred duality that reflects on each side of the mirror. Twins who share one soul, at once opposite and equal. From the two, all things. Accept our offerings. Enter into our hearts, our arms, our legs. Enter and dance with us.
Traditional:
The Marassa are the Divine Twins, and are associated with children. They are the first children of God, and the first Dead, and so they are the first honored in a Vodou ceremony. The Marassa represent the duality of the human and the Divine in our nature. They also suggest procreation: it is through the union of two polarities that multiplicity is manifest. From duality a third principle arises. The Marassa Twa represent love, truth, and justice.
