4/25/2023 0 Comments Prayer to elegua to open roads![]() He usually carries a bent stick which he uses as a walking cane, and to snag people or clear brush. He is petitioned for help with cleansing, opening roads and new opportunities, as well as for luck, good fortune, court cases, legal matters, safe travel, and many other endeavors.Įleggua is typically depicted either as an impish, playful child dressed in a half-red, half-black outfit with a straw hat and a woven shoulder bag full of toasted corn and candy, or as an old gnarled man. He has 101 roads (avatars or incarnations) and is, paradoxically, one of the most complex yet simple orishas of the pantheon. He speaks for all of the orishas and acts as their messenger to humanity. In that sense, he is Olodumare's eyes and ears in the world. He, along with the orisha Orunmila is the witness of fate and knows everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen in this world. He is a trickster, constantly challenging humanity's integrity at every turn. Without Eleggua, ashe (universal power) cannot flow in this world, therefore he is always propitiated first in every ceremony. He is the owner of the crossroads, lives behind every door, is found everywhere in nature, and rules over every conduit or road in the physical and spiritual world. ![]() Eleggua (also known as Elegua, Ellegua, Elegba, Legba, Elewa, or Eshu) is the most important orisha of the pantheon of the Yoruban religion and its diaspora in the Americas.
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