Govi
The govi is the earthenware jar of Haitian Vodou that holds the presence of the dead, a red clay vessel or bottle kept in the temple where it contains a spirit or the reclaimed spirit of an ancestor. The most solemn use of the govi belongs to the rite of reclamation, when, a year and a day after a death, the priest retrieves the gwobonanj, the 'big guardian angel,' from the waters of Ginen, the abyssal homeland of the spirits, and the wete mò nan dlo ceremony settles it into the jar. The vessel is then fed with offerings, manje mò, food for the dead, and becomes the place where the ancestor ma