Editing Marassa Jumeaux

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| titles = Loa of Divinity, Divine Twins 
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| venerated_in = [[Haitian Vodou]], [[Folk Catholicism]]
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| patronage = Divine power, justice, truth, reason, mystery 
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'''Marassa Jumeaux''' are the divine twins in [[Haitian Vodou|Vodou]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qiJoEAOGmYkC|title=Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook|editor=Alvarado, Denise|page=49|year=2001|isbn=9781609256159|publisher=Red Wheel Weiser|accessdate=16 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HYFR1nytycC|title=Hoodoo Mysteries Folk Magic, Mysticism & Rituals|editor=Malbrough, Ray T.|page=14|year=2003|publisher=Llewellyn Publications|isbn=9780738703503|accessdate=15 April 2021}}</ref> They are children, but more ancient than any other [[loa]]. "Love, truth and justice. Directed by reason. Mysteries of liaison between earth and heaven and they personify astronomic-astrological learning. They synthesize the vodou Loa as personification of divine power and the human impotence. Double life, they have considerable power which allow them manage people through the stomach. They are children mysteries."<ref>Rigaud, Milo. ''Voodoo Diagrams & Rituals'', Trilingual edition</ref>

The Marassa are somewhat different from standard Loa, both on a level above them, and counted in their number, they are both twins, and yet they number three, they are male and female, and both male and both female - an example of the Haitian worldview's capacity to retain two seemingly contradictory concepts. In some houses they are not channelled through possession in Vodou ritual, but served first after Legba. 

The Marassa are commonly [[syncretism|syncretised]] with the Catholic [[Saints Cosmas and Damian]].

==References in popular culture==

===Books===

[[Edwidge Danticat]] explores philosophical themes associated with Marassa in her novel [[The Dew Breaker]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bellamy |first1=Maria Rice |title=More than Hunter or Prey: Duality and Traumatic Memory in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker |journal=MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. |date=2012 |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=177–197 |doi=10.1353/mel.2012.0005|jstor=41440718}}</ref>

===Music===

Paul Beaubrun released a song dedicated to the Lwa, titled "Marasa Elou" on his album ''Ayibobo''.<ref>Paul Beaubrun. "Marasa Elou". ''Ayibobo'', Fat Beats Distribution/Ropeadope, 2018.</ref>

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{{Afro-American Religions}}

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