Sallie Ann Glassman

Last updated

Sallie Ann Glassman
SallieAnnGlassmanMay2009.jpg
Glassman in 2009
Born1954
Kennebunkport, Maine, U.S. [1]
Subjects Vodou, tarot
Notable worksThe New Orleans Voodoo Tarot

Sallie Ann Glassman (born 1954) is an American practitioner of Vodou, a writer, and an artist. She was born in Kennebunkport, Maine, [2] and is a self-described "Ukrainian Jew from Maine", [3] and a former member of Ordo Templi Orientis. [4]

Contents

Glassman has been practicing Vodou in New Orleans since 1977. In 1995, she became one of few white Americans to have been ordained via the traditional Haitian initiation. [5] She owns the Island of Salvation Botanica, an art gallery with both religious supplies, and Haitian and local artworks. [6] Glassman has been called one of New Orleans' "most visible practitioners" of vodou. [7]

Glassman at the doorway of the original location of Island of Salvation Botanica on Piety Street in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans; the Botanica has since moved to larger quarters in the New Orleans Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue in Faubourg Marigny. Piety Sallie Glassman Nov 2010.jpg
Glassman at the doorway of the original location of Island of Salvation Botanica on Piety Street in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans; the Botanica has since moved to larger quarters in the New Orleans Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue in Faubourg Marigny.

Art

Glassman's art is both esoteric and syncretic. [5] She has produced two major non-traditional tarot packs: the Enochian Tarot, which is derived from the Enochian magical system of Elizabethan magician Doctor John Dee, and the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot, which replaces the standard four tarot suits with depictions of the spirits of the major strands of Vodou (Petro, Congo, Rada) and Santería practices. [8]

In 1992, Glassman published a set of tarot cards called the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot. The cards depict black people, which was unusual for the time. [9] The cards feature prominent Orisha divinities (Obatala, Oshun, Ogun, Yemaya, and Shango), classical Haitian Vodou spirits (Damballah-Wedo, Ezili-Freda, and Guede), and priests of Louisiana Voodoo such as Marie Laveau and Dr. John. [9]

The tarot cards came with a book co-written with Louis Martinié, an advocate for New Orleans style Voodoo in the spectrum of New World religious practices. [10] [11]

Media

Glassman was mentioned in a 1995 article in The New York Times, [1] and in a 2003 MSNBC interview, she claimed she cured her own cancer using Vodou in 2003. [12]

She appeared in the 2006 film Hexing a Hurricane. Her New Orleans Voodoo Tarot was also an influence on the first album by the band Sun God. [13]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 Bragg, Rick (August 18, 1995). "New Orleans Conjures Old Spirits Against Modern Woes". The New York Times . Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ Miller, David Ian (July 10, 2006). "Finding My Religion / Sallie Ann Glassman, a Vodou priestess in New Orleans, on what Vodou is really about". SFGate.com. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  3. ↑ "The Voodoo That Jews Do". The Forward. November 25, 2014. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  4. ↑ Frater Lux Ad Mundi (November 29, 2018). "Sallie Ann Glassman Eschews Blood Sacrifice in Her Vodoun Devotions" . Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Biography of Sallie Ann Glassman". Goddess-Rising.com. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2011.
  6. ↑ "About Sallie Ann". IslandOfSalvationBotanica.com. Island of Salvation Botanica. Archived from the original on March 13, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Sallie Ann Glassman took an unusual path to become a vodou priestess in New Orleans".
  8. ↑ Jackson, Michele (1997). "New Orleans Voodoo Tarot". TarotPassages.com. Michele Jackson. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  9. 1 2 Fandrich, Ina J. (May 2007). "Yorùbá Influences on Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo". Journal of Black Studies . 37 (5): 775–791. doi:10.1177/0021934705280410. S2CID   144192532.
  10. ↑ Rabinovitch, Shelley; Lewis, James, eds. (2004). Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism. Citadel Press. p. 202. ISBN   0806524073.
  11. ↑ Gallagher, Eugene V.; Ashcraft, W. Michael, eds. (2006). Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America . Greenwood Publishing Group. p.  146, n. 19. ISBN   0275987175.
  12. ↑ Novotny, Monica (December 18, 2003). "A voodoo revival in New Orleans". NBC News. Archived from the original on December 6, 2021. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
  13. ↑ "Sun God". sungod.abrahadabra.net. Sun God. March 1, 2007. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2015.

Commons-logo.svg Media related to Sallie Ann Glassman at Wikimedia Commons


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.