Deren, Maya. The Voodoo Gods [Divine Horsemen]. UK Paladin 1975. Paperback in good condition. 318 pp.

Maya Deren on Erzulie, The Goddess of Love: 

"[She] is a very fascinating and complex idea. She is in fact Goddess of all the luxuries which are not essential to survival. She is the Goddess of Love which, unlike sex, is not essential to propagation. She is the Muse of the Arts. Now, Man can live without it but he doesn't live very much as Man. It is strange that one would have to go to an apparently 'primitive' culture such as Haiti to find an understanding in such exalted terms of what the essential feminine and female--feminine role might conceivably be, that of being everything which is human. Everything which is more than that which is necessary. Taken from this point of view there is no reason in the world why women shouldn't be artists and very fine ones." 

First published in 1953 this study by experimental filmmaker Maya Deren, inspired and enabled by the groundbreaking research on Haitian dance by Katherine Dunham, is still considered a definitive source on the subject.