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    Eshu is an orisha deity in Yoruba mythology and related traditions. He is a protector of travelers and roads, and controls both fortune and misfortune. Eshu acts as a psychopomp, guiding souls between life and death. He is associated with the number three and the colors red and black or white and black. Eshu tempts people to cause maturation through difficult choices and teaches lessons about perspective and perception of reality.

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    Eshu is an orisha deity in Yoruba mythology and related traditions. He is a protector of travelers and roads, and controls both fortune and misfortune. Eshu acts as a psychopomp, guiding souls between life and death. He is associated with the number three and the colors red and black or white and black. Eshu tempts people to cause maturation through difficult choices and teaches lessons about perspective and perception of reality.

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    Eshu is an orisha deity in Yoruba mythology and related traditions. He is a protector of travelers and roads, and controls both fortune and misfortune. Eshu acts as a psychopomp, guiding souls between life and death. He is associated with the number three and the colors red and black or white and black. Eshu tempts people to cause maturation through difficult choices and teaches lessons about perspective and perception of reality.

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    Eshu is an orisha deity in Yoruba mythology and related traditions. He is a protector of travelers and roads, and controls both fortune and misfortune. Eshu acts as a psychopomp, guiding souls between life and death. He is associated with the number three and the colors red and black or white and black. Eshu tempts people to cause maturation through difficult choices and teaches lessons about perspective and perception of reality.

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    Eshu (other names include Exu, Esu Eleggua, Esu Elegbara, Eshu Elegbara, Elegba,

    Legba, and Eleda) is an orisha, and one of the most known deities of the Yoruba
    mythology and related New World traditions.

    He has a wide range of responsibilities: the protector of travelers, deity of roads,


    particularly crossroads, the deity with the power over fortune and misfortune, and the
    personification of death, a psychopomp. Eshu is involved within the Orisa (also spelt
    Orisha or Orixa)-Ifá system of the Yoruba as well as in African diasporic faiths like
    Santeria/Lukumi and Candomble developed by the descendants of enslaved West
    Africans in the Americas, where Eshu was sometimes identified with Saint Anthony of
    Padua, Saint Michael [1] or Santo Niño de Atocha, depending on the situation or location.
    He is often identified by the number three, and the colours red & black or white & black,
    and his caminos or paths (compare: avatar) are often represented carrying a cane,
    shepherd's crook, as well as a pipe.

    Eshu is a god of Chaos and Trickery, and plays frequently tempting choices for the
    purpose of causing maturation. He is a difficult teacher, but a good one[2]. As an
    example[3], Eshu was walking down the road one day, wearing a hat that was red on one
    side and black on the other. Sometime after he departed, the villagers who had seen him
    began arguing about whether the stranger's hat was black or red. The villagers on one
    side of the road had only been capable of seeing the black 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 a person's perception of reality, and that one can be easily
    fooled. In other 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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