Maya Deren — Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti Source Information

Maya Deren — Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti Source Information Author: Maya Deren Full Title: Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti Original Publication: 1953 Edition Used Here: Chelsea House reprint / OCR extraction in the vault Type: Secondary Source — ethnography, film-linked ritual analysis, possession phenomenology, and Vodou aesthetics Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Extracted Text: deren divine horsemen.txt Status Text extracted: Yes — deren divine horsemen.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-28) — Deren normalization pass focused on cosmology, possession, Petro theory, and the existing deep-extraction ecosystem Chapter notes: deren divine horsemen ch notes Graph review in this pass: Strengthened moc sources and formalized the Deren companion-note layer for the existing Vodou extraction cluster Overview Maya Deren (1917–1961) was an American experimental filmmaker and anthropologist who traveled to Haiti in 1947 intending to make a film about dance and left having been initiated into Vodou and possessed by Erzulie. The result was two works — a book and a documentary film — that together constitute the most intimate outsider account of Vodou practice ever produced. Where Métraux provides the scholar's systematic taxonomy, Deren provides the artist's embodied testimony.