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	Awo Study Center - Esu and the Farmers
		Eshu's efforts are undoubtedly viewed as chaotic by the characters in the stories (did I say life) because they are forced to undergo transformation, in terms of their relations to people, to society, to the universe perhaps.
		That Eshu chose to wear multicolored caps, on the one hand points to his own nature, which is multi-faceted and chameleon-like and on the other, that this [hat] was the most fitting thing (proper) to achieve his aim.
		Eshu's game is the 'game of life' and the design of the field of play as represented by the farmers in particular, is the pattern of their (our) existence.
	www.awostudycenter.com /Articles/art_esu_farmers.htm (2652 words)

	Eshu
		In Yoruba mythology, Eshu is an Orisha, and one of the most respected deities of the tradition.
		Eshu is a trickster-god, and plays frequently malicious tricks for the purpose of causing maturation.
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ex/Exu.html (196 words)

	Eshu
		Eshu, also known as Exu (Brazil), Eleggua (Cuba), and Esu (West Africa), is the owner of every road of life.
		Eshu must be given his offering at the beginning of every ritual or the ritual will fail or worse.
		A powerful ally and a hard teacher, Eshu should always be cared for and respected.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/e/eshu.html (134 words)

	House of Ifa - Your source for Santeria and Ifa in the Northwest
		This is because Eshu represents, literally and figuratively, the path you follow, the door you walk through (not to mention the key that opened that door), and the language you speak; He is the progenitor of all journeys and communication.
		Eshu encompasses the beginning and end of all things--no doors (actual or metaphorical) can be opened or closed without his divine ashe (life energy), including those leading to the other Orishas—even those of Heaven and Olodumare (God) Him/Herself.
		Eshu’s personality is playful and quick, and has the reputation for child-like mischievousness.
	www.houseofifa.com /showpage.php?session=&content=Eleggua (318 words)

	Legba
		Eshu is a trickster not just because he fools people and creates chaos, but more profoundly because he's always escaping the codes of the he simultaneously reinforces.
		Eshu fully embodies the sophisticated metaphysics of West Africa, a metaphysics of change and communication, of the copulation between being and world, of the complex power of the crossroads.
		One day Eshu walks on the dividing line between their fields, wearing a cap that is fl on one side and red (or white) on the other.
	www.eleggua.com /Legba.html (4883 words)

	Eshu
		Eshu are easy to talk to, but perhaps slow to give their complete trust.
		Eshu passionately collect tales, riddles, parables, and curiosities, and most of them are a wealth of information from the lands they have visited in the past.
		Eshu characters gain an extra point of experience during any session in which they learn a fantastic new story (or song, or what have you), or perform an incredible feat as a result of their quick wits (such as tricking a dragon out of his treasure, or outwiting a noble).
	www.angelfire.com /rpg2/eternal_night/Eshu.html (1024 words)

	Odyssey Online: AFRICA/Ritual and Ceremony
		Eshu is the god who serves as a mediator between humans and the gods or "orisha." Because he delivers the prayers, wishes and sacrifices of men and women to the gods, humans must stay on good terms with Eshu.
		It is for this reason that Eshu is thought of as a trickster who represents the principle of uncertainty in life.
		Eshu plays a prominent role in human trade, and his shrines are often located near market places.
	www.carlos.emory.edu /ODYSSEY/AFRICA/AF_rit_cerem_gods_eshu.html (190 words)

	Fabsound Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eshu is trio, sister and brothers (its family affair!)From Tyler Texas based in Chicago formed during the summer of 2003.Taking the influences from Radiohead, Bjork, Pixies and the Smith.
		Eshu Elegua is the only god in the voodoo pantheon who can talk to the creator God, he is also the trickster god and he loves chocolates (Belgian’s one),rum and cigars.
		Eshu was formed by Sam Han on keys, Lois Han on guitar, and John Han on drums.
	www.fabsoundrecords.com /artists.asp?ARTIST_ID=2 (147 words)

	African Art
		Eshu is a divine mediator who crosses the boundary between the physical world and the spiritual realm, delivering offerings to the gods.
		In addition to being a messenger, Eshu is also a contradictory personality responsible for the good and bad changes that occur in one's life.
		The upside-down Eshu devotee on the lower register of the right panel may refer to Eshu's tumultuous nature and unpredictability.
	www.speedmuseum.org /yoruba.html (592 words)

	Odyssey Online: AFRICA/Ritual and Ceremony
		Eshu is the god who serves as a mediator between humans and the gods or "orisha." Because he delivers the prayers, wishes and sacrifices of men and women to the gods, humans must stay on good terms with Eshu.
		It is for this reason that Eshu is thought of as a trickster who represents the principle of uncertainty in life.
		Eshu plays a prominent role in human trade, and his shrines are often located near market places.
	carlos.emory.edu /ODYSSEY/AFRICA/AF_rit_cerem_gods_eshu.html (190 words)

	Tickster at the Crossroads
		Eshu fully embodies the sophisticated metaphysics of West Africa, a metaphysics of change and communication, of the copulation between being and world, of the complex power of the crossroads.
		One day Eshu walks on the dividing line between their fields, wearing a cap that is fl on one side and red (or white) on the other.
		Eshu's emphasis on trickery and vengeance made him an ideal orisha for slaves, who imagined him as the saint of revenge against the whites.
	www.mamiwata.com /Legba.html (4868 words)

	Trickster at the Crossroads: by Erik Davis
		Eshu is a trickster not just because he fools people and creates chaos, but more profoundly because he's always escaping the codes of the he simultaneously reinforces.
		Eshu can transform the past into "novel utterances" because he knows that the power of ambiguity and the multiplicity of perspectives can change the fixed into the free.
		Eshu himself went through many changes, and while different geographical groups of African descendents took him in opposite directions, all of his varied faces nonetheless further extend his peculiar multivalent being.
	www.techgnosis.com /chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2005-06-15-2009-0.txt (5127 words)

	Bone Singer Writing by Susanne Iles: Eshu, An Afro-Caribbean Divine Trickster
		Eshu is considered the most important of the four warrior gods called the Orisa.
		Eshu is seen as sitting at the threshold, guarding the many doors and roads which make up the human journey through life.
		Although Eshu can direct someone along a path, it may be a sunlit journey of opportunity or a dark, thorny trail if it is decided a lesson is to be learned.
	www.dracoblu.com /essayeshu.html (988 words)

	Eshu - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		Eshu is a trickster-god, and plays frequently tempting choices for the purpose of causing maturation.
		Exu: Although connected with the Orisha Eshu or Eleggua of the Yoruba-based traditions of Candomble and Santeria, the Exus of Quimbanda are in fact spirits of the dead
		eshu also resembles the voodoo loa simbi who is both the god of magic and the intermediate between humanity and papa legba.
	www.thewordbook.com /Eshu (409 words)

	Eshu's Cap: Improvisation at the Crossroads of the Diaspora, Marshall Soules, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		To his followers, Eshu is thought to wear the crossroads symbolically as a cap with white on one side and fl on the other.
		Eshu thus fashioned a cloth cap with fl on one side and white on the other.
		The paradox of indeterminacy as the context for dialogue is embodied in the figure of Eshu and his fl and white cap.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/diaspora.htm (2982 words)

	Bone Singer Writing by Susanne Iles: Eshu, An Afro-Caribbean Divine Trickster
		Eshu himself went through a variety of changes as he travelled from culture to culture, being called Eleggua in Cuba and Exu in Brazil.
		Eshu is seen as sitting at the threshold, guarding the many doors and roads which make up the human journey through life.
		Although Eshu can direct someone along a path, it may be a sunlit journey of opportunity or a dark, thorny trail if it is decided a lesson is to be learned.
	www.bonesinger.com /essayeshu.html (988 words)

	Eshu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eshu represented in concrete with his features made with cowrie shells.
		He is identified by the colours red and fl, or fl and white and his caminos, or paths (compare: avatar) are often represented carrying a cane, shepherd's crook, as well as a pipe.
		Eshu is thus a prototype of the maltheistic view of God's nature.
	www.pillscatalog.net /Eshu.html (679 words)

	Eshu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A messenger and mediator between gods and men, and the deity of disharmony, Eshu, is the trickster and mischief maker in Yoruba lore.
		Eshu's attributesinclude a long, curved headdress, sometimes with a face at the tip, a flute, medicine gourds, and strands of cowry shells.
		Eshu staffs are carried by his devotees in festivals and dances.
	www.revere-collection.com /dir_nii/mdi_Eshuxx.html (86 words)

	Lesson Plan 3: Keeping the Past Alive
		Eshu, god of the crossroads, is the orisha who embodies the principles of duality and uncertainty and who figures largely in oral tradition.
		It is related through oral history that Eshu was granted by the Supreme Being the right to be the holder of ashe, becoming the keeper of the gate, and guardian of the threshold between the physical and spiritual realms.
		It is apparent that Eshu was not originally represented in art as taking human form, but later a highly developed system of worship came to be practiced in his honor, including the use of figurative sculpture.
	www.umfa.utah.edu /?id=NDE5 (2170 words)

	Guitar Noise Forums :: View topic - Eshu, Eshu we all fall down
		The cross is in the symbol because Eshu is the lord of the crossroads.
		Eshu is also the God of the catch 22, compromise, the God of the conflict and harmony between woman and man and indeed the god of sex and fertility.
		Eshu is the doorman that lets the living into and out of the dream world but does not allow the dead to pass into the material world.
	www.guitarnoise.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=13140 (5789 words)

	Alibris: Eshu - Eleggua Elegbara: Santeria and the Orisha of the Crossroads - 0942272617
		Alibris: Eshu - Eleggua Elegbara: Santeria and the Orisha of the Crossroads - 0942272617
		Eshu - Eleggua Elegbara: Santeria and the Orisha of the Crossroads
		Eshu's place is unique because he is both an orisha and the leader of the ajogun!
	www.alibris.com /books/isbn/0942272617/Eshu%20%2D%20Eleggua%20Elegbara%3A%20Santeria%20and%20the%20Orisha%20of%20the%20Crossroads (166 words)

	monaxle : blog
		eshu has recently folded 1000 paper cranes and sent them to over 58 countries around the world.
		All she asks from the people recieving the cranes is for them to take a picture of their crane and send it back to her.
		I’m not sure what eshu is wishing for but trust that it will be something big and good.
	monaxle.com (1258 words)

	TSAKANIKAS
		The clan of Eshu' s members are found mostly in Africa and the Middle East.
		Eshu is a Yoruba god from West Africa who directs traffic along the Road of Life from his abode at the Crossroads of Fortune.
		Eshu is also a trickster god with a sense of humour who will often throw a spanner in the works to keep life interesting.
	www.tsakanikas.net /paternaldna.htm (83 words)

	redrikki: At the Cross Roads, Well Met
		Eshu smiled at that and came forward to stand next to the white man. “He wants a bag of your roasted palm nuts,” he told the woman in her native Yoruba.
		Keeping her eye on Eshu, the woman slowly began to hand the pouch of nuts to the man, but he shook his head.
		Eshu had always been fond of that one; it was a rather good likeness.
	redrikki.livejournal.com /6022.html (2214 words)

	Yoruba/Eshu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eshu is one of the 'orishas' (messenger) of 'olorum' (the Supreme God).
		Eshu is represented by kneeling males and females, by standing figures or heads only.
		Primarily he/she is symbolised by a long tailed headdress in the shape of a cap or hook.
	web.onetel.com /~herbertroese/Eshu.htm (148 words)

	ReclaimingQuarterly.org: My Path to the Orisha
		And so, it seems logical that Eshu roadblock would be the spirit that one would appeal to open doors and roads.
		She sang short songs to each Orisha, starting with Eshu, and as she did so, some members of the audience became possessed by these gods.
		Eshu had opened the door for me, and now I had little choice but to walk through it.
	www.reclaimingquarterly.org /87/rq-87-orisha.html (2270 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eshu "Good luck and bad luck march together." The wisdom of this Yoruba saying is embodied in images of Eshu, god of the crossroads.
		Some figures of Eshu are freestanding, some are dance staffs to be held or hooked by their curved headdress over a person's shoulder.
		Eshu, who helps to balance the forces of life, can be found today in shrines, over doorways in the home, at the marketplace, and in art collections.
	www.vmfa.state.va.us /Eshu.txt (296 words)

	Eshu - White Wolf
		The Eshu are born of the dreams of the middle east; they are wanderers and storytellers, and have no peers as navigators in the Dreaming.
		These things all give them a reputation for being unreliable, but few kithain would refuse them a place at the table to hear their stories of far off lands.
		eshu · ghille dhu · merfolk · nockers · oba · piskies · pooka · redcaps · river hags · satyrs · selkies · sidhe · sluagh · trolls
	whitewolf.wikia.com /wiki/Eshu (148 words)

	Zen, teacher, buddhist, meditation, classes, instruction, zen monk, Victoria BC
		Born in 1972, Eshu's energy for developing and maintaining the programmes at the Victoria Zen Centre has made it a place where both newcomers and seasoned way-seekers can come to engage in true practice, and find a community of support.
		Eshu and his family share their home and lives with his students.
		Eshu is also committed to increasing awareness of, and creating more opportunities for, Buddhist practice in the Greater Victoria area.
	www.zenwest.ca /resident_monk.htm (303 words)

	NWiLive.com - Eshu at The Fire Escape 11-25-05 - Steve Blaze
		Eshu's unmistakable melodic verses seemed to captivate everyone in the room.
		Eshu has qualities of a toned down version of the Cranberries.
		Eshu really has a beautiful sound and I would love to hear them again.
	www.nwilive.com /miscellaneous/pastnews/eshu112505_news.html (224 words)

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