"potomitan" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 36:",
          "text": "Around this poteau-mitan revolve the ritual movements and the dance; at its base the offerings are placed; and through it the loa enter the peristyle.",
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          "ref": "1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 226:",
          "text": "Across from us two young men were setting up a battery of drums; they cast furtive glances at Rachel as she cracked open a bottle of rum, tipped it three times toward the poteau mitan, and took a drink.",
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          "ref": "1995, Marilyn Houlberg, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 277",
          "text": "Next, swinging a censer, Divié blessed the poto mitan and all the ounsis who raised their skirts and swished them around to get the full effect of the incense."
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          "ref": "2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 36:",
          "text": "The poteau-mitan is a ladder between Heaven and Earth, a pathway by which the ancestors can rise from below and the spirits descend from above.",
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          "ref": "2009, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama, editors, Encyclopedia of African Religion, volume 1, page 394:",
          "text": "The Lwa are believed to ascend or descend through the potomitan, which is therefore seen as a magical axis.",
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        "A sacramental post or pillar in the middle of the peristyle in front of a voodoo temple, used as the focus of certain rituals."
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          "word": "poteau mitan"
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      "word": "poteau mitan"
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