Mapou

Meantime, in neighboring Haiti, in a small town called Mapou, about 30 miles away from the capital of Port-au-Prince, that city, that small village located in a valley remains, much of it, under about 10 feet of water.

CNN Transcript May 28, 2004 2004

A little town called Mapou about 30 miles out of the capital of Haiti Port-Au-Prince, I am told that the city there is still under about 10 feet of water and people are having to get about on rafts.

CNN Transcript May 27, 2004 2004

The tree called Mapou, besides that it is medicinal, is also used for making of

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Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa and John Utaka scored within five minutes of each other to put the visitors into a two-goal lead inside 20 minutes.

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In the Haitian culture, the closest to Africa in the Western Hemisphere, the practitioners of Vodun religion worship the Mapou tree as a way to connect with the spirits. '

Sacred Avatar "Hometree" is the Mapou Tree in Haitian Vodun 2010

In their holiest of ceremonies, the Mapou tree is central and represents the Voduists 'connection to the spirits which inhabit the tree.

Sacred Avatar "Hometree" is the Mapou Tree in Haitian Vodun 2010

The sacred Mapou is often seen as being personified in a respected or heroic figure in Haitian society.

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Sacred Avatar "Hometree" is the Mapou Tree in Haitian Vodun 2010

The Mapou tree is known in English as either a silk-cotton tree or a Ceiba tree.

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In their holiest of ceremonies, the Mapou tree is central and represents the Voduists 'connection to the spirits which inhabit the tree.

Printing: Sacred Avatar "Hometree" is the Mapou Tree in Haitian Vodun 2010