https://scholar.library.miami.edu/digital/files/original/b3b79f7cb7112fbcbea39cf1cf418347.jpg cc64a8cc882a7c3e47b9064191b5973b Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Les arbres musiciens; roman. Subject The topic of the resource Deforestation -- Haiti Haiti -- Religion Catholic Church -- Haiti Vodou Haiti Description An account of the resource “Vodou … The Soul of the People,” an excerpt from Jacques Stéphen Alexis’ “The Musician Trees” Callaloo: Vol. 27, No. 3, Summer 2004 Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press English translation by Carrol F. Coates … The night was marked by an exceptional aura—a night that was coal black, sidereal, looming, and sprinkled with stars. Caressing the earth soothingly and without the slightest sound, the nocturnal breeze was almost ethereal. Framing the entrance to the Nan-Remanbrans sanctuary, the bare, swelling boles of two flamboyants formed enormous, athletically muscled thighs. The powerful branches inter-twined like pairs of human limbs with massive biceps, knotted knees, twisted calves, herculean bulges-trees that were virtually human, monstrous titans brandishing thirty arms and twenty legs. A crowd of horses and mules snorted along the fences as other animals kept arriving over the creviced roads. The papalwa, priests young and old, kept crowding in with an aura of mystery enveloping their heads. A great white towel, sparkling immaculately, was displayed in the very middle of the gate. Dressed in a white robe with a blue sash tied around her waist, the “Empress “was welcoming those arriving. This was Madame Ange Desameaux herself, the buxom wife of the tax collector, an ounsi, a servant of Manbo-Nanan, the spirit of wisdom and of azure, the mother of all the Grenadier spirits. Standing in the dust with bare feet, she was silently welcoming them with a double handshake and leading them across the courtyard to the sanctuary. Ayizan-the wife of Atibon Legba and the spirit of sweet water, markets, gateways, and highways, the chief goddess of the orthodox Arada Olympus-was lighting a fire in the great hearth a few steps from the temple. Close by Bwadòm, Dada, his aging wife, was taking care of other business. Their granddaughter Harmonise was blowing on the fire beneath a great humming cauldron of boiling water for coffee. Standing with her black face over the flames, glowing sparks were burning her tender, resplendent face: there were ruddy spots around her delicate, sharp little nose, her swelling cheeks were golden, a blue luminosity shone beneath her almond-shaped eyes, and streams of light played over her bare, skinny little arm, wrapped around Dada’s leg … — Pages 621–628 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alexis, Jacques Stéphen, 1922-1961. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gallimard, Paris Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1957 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 392 pages 21 cm Language A language of the resource French Type The nature or genre of the resource Fiction Caribbeana Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LC : a 58001805 ISBN : 2070200930 Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. DEPESTRE, R. (1957). Les Arbres musiciens [Review of Les Arbres musiciens]. Présence Africaine, 16, 188–189. Présence Africaine Editions.