Editing Damballa (section)

== Worship ==

When a serviteur is believed to be possessed by Damballa during a ceremony, he or she moves on the floor like a serpent. A white sheet is laid down for him, and another waved over him to fan and cool him. His purity is such that it cannot be allowed to be exposed to impure or unclean things.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Chita Tann|first=Mambo|title=Haitian Vodou|publisher=Llewellyn Books|year=2012|isbn=978-0-7387-3069-1|location=woodbury, MN|pages=212}}</ref> Some peristyles maintain a basin full of water into which the possessed will plunge, to swim and cool off. 

Offerings to him include milk, white foods and flowers, rice, coconut, orgeat syrup, and a perfume called ''lotion pompeia''.<ref name=":2" /> Damballa's symbol is an egg,<ref name="coulter" /> so his offering ''par excellence'' is a white, uncooked egg on a mound of white flour.<ref name=":2" />