What fascinated me in Canals’ article was his discussion on Maria Lionza’s “double possession”. I found it quite intriguing how Lionza’s spirit can possess the medium, in this case Barbara, first in the “Indian” form, and secondly, in the form of a “white woman”; this phenomenon quite symbolically speaks to the plurality of this saint’s […]
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What fascinated me in Canals’ article was his discussion on Maria Lionza’s “double possession”. I found it quite intriguing how Lionza’s spirit can possess the medium, in this case Barbara, first in the “Indian” form, and secondly, in the form of a “white woman”; this phenomenon quite symbolically speaks to the plurality of this saint’s […]
Posted in Blogs, Religion | Tagged with Roger Canals
