Literally, the "Big Good Angel." In Voodoo, the soul is seen as having two parts. The Gros-Bon-Ange is the life force. It enters the body at birth. At death it leaves the body and returns to the Gran Met, or pool of life force. The other part of the soul is the Ti-Bon-Ange.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...