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Sacred Harbor

Festival of Oshun (Harbor Series #3)

In Sacred Harbor on 4 January 2006 with no comments

  Oshun or Osun is a Yoruba goddess that is associated with erotic beauty, gold and rivers. Awo Osun, a New York society of Oshun worshipers, gathers by the Hudson River every summer to honor the deity and pay respects to ancestors. Everyone comes dressed in white, as is customary for Yoruba festivals. I unfortunately [...]

Obon Festival (Harbor Series#2)

In Sacred Harbor on 19 December 2005 with no comments

  In the summer of 2002, The New York Buddhist Church and NY de Volunteer came together to organize a traditional Japanese floating lantern ceremony to commemorate the victims of 9/11. The Bon (or O-bon) Festival is a Japanese holiday to honor the departed spirits of the ancestors. Families make or buy paper lanterns on [...]

Middle Passage Ceremony (Harbor Series #1)

In Sacred Harbor on 8 December 2005 with no comments

Every June, African-Americans hold a Middle Passage ceremony to honor ancestors who died aboard slave ships bound for the New World. This video is the first of a series about ritual and cultural uses of the New York waterfront. Coney Island, New York, 2004 runtime: 00:03:07  "The Middle Passage was the brutal and horrific transportation [...]