Have a Merry Belated Christmas and a Happy New Year! ; )

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Conclusion.

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B2B.

The 2 Colored Hat.

Eshu is a trickster-god, and plays frequently tempting choices for the purpose of causing maturation. He is a difficult teacher, but a good one. As an example, Eshu was walking down the road one day, wearing a hat that was red on one side and blue on the other. Sometime after he departed, the villagers who had seen him began arguing about whether the stranger’s hat was blue or red. The villagers on one side of the road had only been capable of seeing the blue side, and the villagers on the other side had only been capable of seeing the red half. They nearly fought over the argument, until Eshu came back and cleared the mystery, teaching the villagers about how one’s perspective can alter one’s perception of reality, and can be easily fooled.

(In many versions of this tale, the two tribes were not stopped short of violence; they actually annihilated each other, and Eshu laughed at the result, saying “Bringing strife is my greatest joy”.

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b2b.

Song for Eshu.

f.y.i. Don't really know what in the world he's saying in the song, but it still sounds pretty good.

I'm about to wrap up the posts on Eshu and move on to the next two Orixas:
Ogoun : The God of War, Brotherhood and the Hot Masculine
and Ochoosi: The God of the Hunt, Magic and the Cool Masculine (my favorite orixa)
These two make up a couple of the major orixas in the pantheon, and are never to be without each other for good reason.

Together the three orixas Ogoun, Ochoosi and Eshu make up a group they call "The Warriors" an essential element in the Yoruba Pantheon and realm of Spirituality.

Eshu's Constant Erection.

  

Of all the lines that Legba transgresses, the most visible ones are sexual. He is young, small, and spry, and has a ravishing sexual appetite. When Mawu punishes him for some transgression by commanding that his penis remain always erect, he smiles and immediately begins groping the nearest female. 

In another episode, after tricking many suitors out of deflowering the daughter of a king, he has sex with the woman himself. The happy king commands that Legba may sleep with any woman he chooses, and names him "the intermediary between this world and the next. And that is why Legba everywhere dances in the manner of a man copulating.  

 As Pelton writes, "He is the living copula, and his phallus symbolizes the real distinction between outside and inside, and the wild and the ordered

 Eshu makes us recognize the fundamental relation between sex and the evolving, continually reconnecting cosmos.

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Sexuality.