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It is a voice used in Haiti to name a "priest of the voodoo nagoo religion". It has its origin in the word hounnongan, from the Dahomey language spoken in present-day Benin (Africa), formed with the prefix hun- which means "relative to voodoo", and gan which is the "priest, who dominates the spirits". See batuque .

  

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