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	Legba
		Legba: "wise/protector"/"road opener", and "trickster." It was the latter image that Christian missonaries associated with their Satan.
		The crossroads is seen in Legba's vévé (a complex cosmic diagram drawn with white flour that represents the loa).
		Legba's Petro aspect is called Carrefour, the crossroads, and he is lord of fl magic, linked to Ghédé and Baron Samedi, the fearsome baddies of death and the grave.
	www.eleggua.com /Legba.html (4883 words)

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		Legba's symbol is the cross, his color is fl, and he is represented in the hounfort by the poteau-mitan and by a sacred tree near the hounfort.
		Legba walks in his bare feet because he is in constant contact with the earth.
		Legba is also known to hold the "key of the spiritual world," and for this reason is identified with the Christian St. Peter.
	www.frankenhooker.com /denofiniquity/voodoo/encl.html (1965 words)

	SevenAfricanPowers.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Legba is the keeper of the crossroads between the worlds, the messenger between human and divine worlds.
		Legba is always the first god honored in every ritual because he opens the door to the spirit world.
		Legba unifies opposites, enables communication between worlds: male and female, human and divine, older and younger generations, the living and the dead, the sacred and the secular, the universe and its origin.
	www.open-sesame.com /Legba.html (369 words)

	Legba
		Legba, a god of West Africa and Voodooism, is the child of the Sky Pantheon.
		Legba is very intelligent and cunning, despite the fact that he is a trickster.
		This is because he holds the key to the gate separating the humans' world and the world of the gods.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/l/legba.html (129 words)

	Legba
		Addressed as Vye Legba (Old Legba), Legba Atibon and Papa Legba, he is the beloved opener of the way between this world, and the world of the Lwa.
		Legba is also referred in song as the Poteau Mitan, the very axis by which the Lwa enter the peristyle.
		Legba facilitates understanding as He is the being of understanding, of comprehension and of sensitiveness.
	www.sosyetedumarche.com /Vodou_Info/Lwa/Legba/legba.html (790 words)

	Savage Legba
		The legba is a Savage healer, the priest of the elements and the link between the gods and the tribe.
		The legbas did their best to heal the defenders of the tribe when the enemies approached but their efforts were in vain due to the stronger spell powers of the advocates aiding the knights...
		As a Savage legba draws his energies from the surroundings through his staff, he may only cast spells of a certain magic type when he is using a staff of a spell of that magic type.
	underworld.fortunecity.com /olympic/293/var-legba.htm (2434 words)

	Legba
		Legba rules fate, chance, roads, doors, mirrors, crossroads, contradictions, opportunities, primordial light, and the daytime Sun as it travels across the sky.
		Legbaís feast days include March 18, 19 or 20, the feast of Legba Zaou, when he is offered a fl goat, and June 29.
		Legba is always the first god honored in every ritual, because he opens the way to the other loas or orishas.
	members.tripod.com /zer0DMX/gods/legba.html (284 words)

	Legba
		Papa Legba is the Vodoun equivalent of Exu.
		In Dahomey Legba is seen as much younger, and he is much closer to the Yoruba Exu.
		As Legba is the guardian of the right hand portal of the Hounfour (House) and Lord of the Day and the Sun, Carrefour is the guardian of the left hand portal and is Lord of the Night and the Moon.
	www.geocities.com /beargomke/Legba.html (239 words)

	Legba
		Legba is sometimes said to be the first lwa saluted in a Vodou ceremony.
		Legba when being saluted in the Rada rite is saluted and served with water, molassess, and sometimes honey.
		Legba is an old man. The images of St. Lazarus (the one with the sores and the dogs) serves for Legba in the Rada rite.
	www.ezilikonnen.com /legba.html (920 words)

	Dahomean Culture & Lore of the Gods
		When Legba does this, he himself looks about to see what is happening in the sea, and on earth, and he has promised Gbadu, whom we also call Fa, he would also report on what happens in the domain of Mawu.
		Some time after this, Legba said to Mawu that there was a great War on earth, a great war in the sea, and a great war in the sky, and that, were it not for Gbadu, alt these three kingdoms would Shortly be destroyed, since men did not know how to behave.
		To show his indifference to this punishment, Legba began at once to play with Gbadu before their parent and, when reproached, pointed out that since his organ was always to remain erect, Mawu had herself decreed such conduct for him.
	www.mamiwata.com /queen.html (3102 words)

	Papa Legba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Haitian Vodou, Papa Legba is the intermediary between the lwa and humanity.
		In Benin and Nigeria, Legba is viewed as young and virile, is often horned and ithyphallic, and his shrine is usually located at the gate of the village in the countryside.
		In contrast to Papa Legba, Eleggua is a trickster child.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legba (486 words)

	The Lwas: Legba
		"Legba, well-known in Africa as a seducer of women and a mischief-maker, is known in Haiti as a kindly old man, but he still has to do with fertility and likes sacrifices of goats and roosters.
		Legba ceremonies begin with a song to him and the sprinkling of a few drops of rum on the ground in his honor.
		He opens the way from the material to the spiritual world (as a syncretic image the keys of St. Peter tie in nicely with Legba).
	www.gede.org /lwas/legba.html (163 words)

	C:\0BLACK~1\TheWordInPraiseLegba.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Word is the ship on which Legba crosses in safe passage the space between the World and the Divine.
		Legba embraced the Word and lay in its soft fullness to ride as a Chariot, as a Beetle, as a Barque between the lands of the Gods and the lands of those who walk upon this Earth.
		Sweet Legba, Son of Brightness, the sound of your cane echoes in the emptiness between.
	w3.iac.net /~moonweb/archives/LM/TheWordInPraiseLegba.htm (247 words)

	Brillo Magazine, Issue Number 2, "A Bug in the Wetware." Extra Abrasive. The Return of the Psycho-cyber-geneto-repressed
		As women or men of color, or any group that is placed on the boundaries of society, outside the "dominant paradigm," a lot of folks have every reason to be suspicious of something that comes so obviously from the first-world military industrial interests.
		The reason I brought up Legba, besides this being a Halloween issue (I have to mention the devil at least once), is exactly that - there's some kind of mythical beast being created in the tension between at least two worlds - and it's in a tremendous position of power, despite the limp.
		And you know, this date is not just the days of ghouls and goblins, but is the time in many cultures where the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest.
	www.brillomag.net /No2/sandy.htm (1167 words)

	Legba background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Legba originates in Dahomey, West Africa, where he is the spokesman and interpreter of the gods.
		Without Legba's aid, the gods would not be able to communicate with themselves or with humans.
		Although he appears feeble, this spirit is extremely strong, and possession of a worshipper by Legba will often cause the person to fall violently to the ground.
	www.courses.vcu.edu /ENG-snh/ChattelDance/legba.htm (145 words)

	My Lunch With Legba
		The theory is that he improperly summoned Papa Legba and didn't survive his encounter with the pissed-off deity.
		She responded in a thick Haitian accent that it was the cross of Legba.
		Papa Legba is the gatekeeper to the afterlife, but he is also god of the crossroads.
	tomflanders.com /writing/legba.php (1294 words)

	Papa Legba
		Papa Legba is commonly depicted as an old man sprinkling water or an old man with a crutch, and is also known as Legba or Legba Ati-Bon.
		In any vodoun ceremony, Legba is the first loa invoked, so that he may "open the gate" for communication between the worlds.
		Article "Papa Legba" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 05 April 2001 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/p/papa_legba.html (107 words)

	The Ghost in the Machine
		Legba conducts people between this world and the next, and is the god of both roads/paths and barriers/partitions.
		Legba is the link, the mediating point between the visible/invisible, divine/human, and life/death, at once linked to both the garden and the graveyard.
		Most importantly, in pointing to Legba as the lord of the Matrix, Gibson is also hinting that perhaps some of its roads may lead into worlds other than our own...
	www.voidspace.org.uk /cyberpunk/gibson_voodoo.shtml (2923 words)

	Teen Witch Online - Traditions & Paths - Legba
		Legba is the "gatekeeper" because his home is the crossroads - the place between the world of the spirits and our world.
		Legba's favorite color is red, so if you want to wear a red shirt, or red sneakers, or tie a red belt around your waist, those are all good ideas too!
		[Legba is the lwa of games, jokes and surprises of all kinds - so why not start by making him laugh?] You can even tell him two more knock-knock jokes, or the same one three times in a row, if you want to.
	www.teenwitchonline.org /trads/legba.htm (1940 words)

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		You let the candle burn out on its own and the next day, you take the glass of water and throw it out the front door of where you live, asking that all the witchcraft and evil that your enemy has done to you be returned to them.
		If Eleggua or Legba is not happy, being the trickster god, he can cause problems in the ceremony and it will not go well.
		Legba is often seen in the Haitian tradition as an old man, carrying a sack on his back, often smoking a pipe.
	www.angelfire.com /fl3/ELEGGUA/page2.html (527 words)

	Hellhound on My Trail: Aswang and Legba at the Crossroads of Life
		The character in question was known as Eshu-Elegbara(Eshu for short) among the Yoruba and Legba among the Fon.
		Legba, simultaneously a Trickster and the god of communication and spiritual language, played an integral part in the belief system shared by West Africans exiled to slave life in Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad, and the Southern states.
		Legba's emphasis on trickery made him the ideal orisha for slaves, symbolizing revenge against their white owners.
	www.apmforum.com /columns/orientseas51.htm (2462 words)

	Chats with Legba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Since my familiarity with Voudun magickal praxis was decidedly inadequate for performance of a traditional Voudun style evocation, compounded with a lack of the neccessary tools and accomplices, I decided to approach it from the standpoint of a Western Magickian.
		Being a good Gematriac, this was easily added to the number 36, which made perfect sense and fit Legba in every way I could think of it.
		Legba as the Mercurial gatekeeper and Crossroads God.
	www.panikon.com /phurba/old/legba.html (401 words)

	Legba - Wikipedia
		Legba, auch Papa Legba, ist ein Geist oder Heiliger (Loa) in der afrikanischen und karibischen Religion des Voodoo und nimmt eine zentrale Rolle in den Ritualen des Voodoo ein.
		Weiterhin wird auf dem waagrechten Balken ein Spazierstock dargestellt, was darauf zurückzuführen ist, dass Papa Legba diese seine Wege abschreitet.
		Papa Legba ist auch unter den Namen "Kalfou" bzw "Carafour" (frz.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legba (495 words)

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		Legba "monte" un participant, ou un simple spectateur, il le terrasse, celui-ci se relève péniblement, cassé en deux, traînant un pied, tel un vieillard en décrépitude.
		Legba a sa statue en vente au marché à la vue de tous, il ressemble à ce vieillard boiteux appuyé sur une canne, fumant une pipe d'un air boudeur.
		L'approche de Legba nous est facilitée par sa ressemblance avec Hermès, mais avant de développer l'aspect, qui leur est commun, de messager des dieux, abordons la curieuse utilisation de l'indignité d'Hermès dans la psychothérapie moderne de l'école de Jung pour comprendre et soigner les troubles du caractère dans les maladies psychiatriques.
	www.chez.com /jackdumont/bleu/chap03/01.htm (3262 words)

	Wired 3.07: Technopagans
		Legba always wears borrowed bodies, and I never know what form or gender they'll be.
		Like many of the truly creative Pagans I've met, legba is solitary, working without a coven or close ties to Paganism's boisterous community.
		Despite her online presence and her interest in Ifá, the West African system of divination, legba's a pretty traditional witch; she completed a Craft apprenticeship with Pagans in Ann Arbor and studied folklore and mythology in Ireland.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.07/technopagans.html?pg=9&topic= (773 words)

	Legba and Ghede, Loa of Vodun
		The Indian Zemi "connotes both the spirit of the dead, the soulless living and the fetish stone by which magic is accomplished." The word "zombie" comes from the Indian Zemi; so do the loa Simbi, patron of the rains, and Baron Samedi, Lord of the Cemetery and the Crossroads.
		Legba is a Rada loa that came from Dahomey; he is God of the Crossroads, and the connection between the universe and its divine origin.
		He is the first one saluted at all Loa ceremonies, and is considered to be the principle of life; the initial procreative whole.
	www.manigua.org /resources/orishas/legba_ghede.html (447 words)

	poetrymagazines.org.uk - Atibon-Legba
		Names with hyphens which include the element ‘Legba’ are aspects of the same divinity.
		Each lwa has his or her favourite tree: the reposoir of Legba is the ‘medicine-tree’ (tatropha curcas).
		A vèvè is a ritual diagram, usually drawn with flour on the ground, which represents (and summons) a lwa; the bagui is the sanctuary of a vodoû temple.
	www.poetrymagazines.org.uk /magazine/record.asp?id=13075 (373 words)

	Trickster at the Crossroads West Africa
		Eshu's caprice, quickness, and agility of body and mind are all characteristics he shares with Hermes, perhaps reflecting the perennial spiritual characteristics of communication.
		So Legba (Eshu's name among the nearby Fon tribe) knows all the languages known to his brothers, and he knows the language Mawu speaks, too.
		He allows us to speak with the gods and for them to speak with us; and peril, because he tends to play tricks with the information he has, to keep us perpetually aware that he oversees the network of exchange.
	www.carnaval.com /sf00/trickster.htm (2842 words)

	Robert Johnson
		Legba is a trickster deity and god of entrances and crossroads.
		In the new world, Legba goes about in tatters and he functions in cult rituals "to open the way" for the gods to possess their devotees.
		In the new world syncretism he is often equated with the devil.
	www.mudcat.org /rj-dave.cfm (1402 words)

	Papa Legba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His feast day is the 13 of June, his color is brown, and he smokes cigars.
		Its very rare that Papa Legba takes possetion of a horse, yet when he does, give GRACIA A LA MISERICORDIA, (grace to the mercy), because all of the paths will be open for all other Loas.
		In Dominican Voodun, Papa Legba, is not "used" as often as in Haiti, but he is still very important!
	www.geocities.com /ozziesdominicanvoodun/legba2.html (109 words)

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