veveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• vévé, vèvè, vever

語源

From Haitian Creole vèvè, from Portuguese viver (“to live”).

名詞

veve (plural veves)

1. (voodoo) Any of various symbols, like line diagrams, that have religious significance in voodoo, serving as a representation of the loa. [from 20th c.]
   • 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 69:

     The vever, as a cabbala-like method of invoking the gods, was included as a primary ceremonial device in Rada.

   • 1995, Robert Farris Thompson, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 103:

     The vèvè for Simbi, lord of healing, bristles with all sorts of allusions to the Kongo medicines of God, leaves, horns, water, and stars.

   • 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 15:

     The indigenous practice of sand painting was preserved in the practice of creating vévés, intricate drawings in cornmeal that were used to call various spirits.