This is the most extensive book on Esu, also known in different locations as
Eleda, Exu, Cxu Eleggua, Cxu Elegbara, Legba, Elegba, Elegbera, or Odara. He is
the ''divine messenger,'' central to the understanding of Yoruba religion and
worldview, as well as their various manifestations and related orisa traditions
in the African diaspora — such as Candomble, Vodou, and
Santeria/Lukumi.
Esu and Ifa (divination with all its sacred
texts) or Orunmila (the god of divination) rank as the most widespread and the
most worshipped of all the deities. Both Esu and Ifa/Orunmila hold the Yoruba
cosmic system together. Esu is now part of what some may label as the Black
Atlantic religion; part of the attempt to recover African religions in other
lands; as well as part of the use of religion for survival. As the book points
out, in Esu's ability to migrate to other lands, he becomes part of
transatlantic history, but more so of the tension between relocation and
history, between the violence that led to the forced migrations of people and
the long healing process of reconciliation with living in strange lands that
later became new homelands.
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Elegba (Eleggua, Eleggua) controls the roads and doors of this world. He is the depositary of Ashe. The colors schemes of red and black, as well as black and white, are his. They reflect his contradictory natures. Elegba stands at the crossroads of the human and divine. He brings good fortune to children because children are messengers between the two worlds. Not surprisingly, Elegba has a close relationship with the Orisha of divination, Orunmila. No spell or ritual can be done in either world without the permission of Elegba. It is to Elegba whom you make atoning sacrifices and it is Elegba who is called before any other Orisha to “open the doors” and begin the magical rituals. His numbers are 3 and 21.
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