If the believer feels the need for a messenger who conveys his desire to satisfy a peremptory urgency, he requests it through a Prayer to choose, which will surely grant him love, the return of the separated couple, will open his paths and give him protection.
Prayer to Elegua
Elegua is the orisha of the crossroads, master of roads and doors in the world, god of luck but also of accidents. He is also known as Elegba or Eleggua. Eshu and Elegua are two deities of the Yoruba pantheon with similar characteristics but there is a radical difference: Eshu is energy, Eleggua is matter.
It is located at the crossroads of humanity and the divine, it is the intermediary between Olorun and humans, and carries the offerings and messages of the latter to the Supreme God and the orishas. When a believer wants to invoke the gods, he first invites Eshu, because he opens the doors of communication between this world and that of the orishas. Nothing can be done in either world without his permission.
It holds the keys to destiny and opens the doors to happiness or misfortune. He personifies chance and death. He identifies with a child because he is mischievous, mocking and capricious, but he works hard to help those who have received him and believe in him. He always walks with his scythe-like "scribble" branch, which allows him to part tall grass, opening and closing the pathways of life. He lives behind the front doors of houses and personifies the burlesque character of destiny in the hands of a child who sometimes seems to laugh at the believer.
Description of Elegua
Elegua is an Osha. He is the first of the orisha warriors along with Eshu, Oggun, Oshosi and Osun, who have the task of protecting the believers who receive them. He is the first orisha that will receive the new initiate in the rule of Osha-Ifa (santeria). Elegua is a terrible warrior and nothing stops him when Oggun and Oshosi accompany him. He came to earth in the company of Obatala and is the messenger of Olofin, as well as the guardian of the savannah and the undergrowth.
He normally lives behind gates and is the master of paths and destiny. He commands cosmic forces and is trusted to accomplish anything. He is an Osha that we receive in the head and that is why we say that he sits down. He speaks through the diloggun and the day of the initiation ceremony, the main sign of the new initiate or olosha, is determined by the conversation of Elegua and that of the person's guardian angel. Elegua is the only Osha who has gone and returned from the world of Ara Onu (the world of the dead).
He won rights, ahead of Olofin, Obatala and Orunmila to be the first to be served in any ceremony. He has twenty one snails that he talks to and he also has twenty one different paths. His colors are red and black and his number is three. It is attended, preferably on Mondays and the third of each month. It is syncretized in the Catholic religion with San Antonio de Padua and San Niño de Atocha. Its celebration dates are January 6 and June 13. To go to him believers say: "Laroye Elegua".
The dilogun and tools of Elegua
He speaks in all the odu (signs) because the diloggun oracle belongs to him, but more precisely he speaks in the signs oddi, okana sode and ojuani shobe. Elegua lives (she is said to sit) on an ota (stone), a reef stone, a charged stone, a giant charged conch, and a dry coconut.
It is placed in a terracotta pot. Its attributes are: bells, a guava stick (garabato), a mousetrap, coins, toys such as marbles and whistles, rattles, a straw hat and a maraca painted red and black. His necklaces (elekes) have alternating red and black beads. Elegua's power object is the garabato (stick made from a guava branch).
Eleggua's clothes
Elegua is dressed in a frock coat, shorts and a red hat. The colors of her clothes should combine red and black. Sometimes, instead of a combination of these colors, she wears clothes with red and black stripes. All of her attire, and especially her hat, are adorned with pearls and seashells.
Offerings to Elegua
Kids, roosters or hens, chicks, agoutis, black or red mice are sacrificed to him. He can't eat pigeons because he is weakened, except in some of his paths. Its plants are: road opener, croto, carob tree, camphor, almacigo, watercress, basil, chili, guaguao chili, poplar, atiponla, almond, chicken leg, ceiba, curujey, jobo, peony, peregun, marigold, pica pica, tongue scraper , immortelle, rompazaragüey, purslane, white bramble, botija piñon, etc.
Dances of Eleggua
When Elegua comes down and takes possession of his "horse", he runs and hides behind the door. He jumps and wriggles, makes childish faces and plays like children. Some of his moves can be very erotic. He plays pranks on people present and can disappear and reappear without warning.
A characteristic step of Elegua is to stop on one foot and quickly turn around. He is always provided with a doodle that he uses to imitate the gestures of opening a path in the middle of dense undergrowth. The other dancers imitate his movements, individually or in groups, in a counterclockwise direction.
Crown Elegua: Kari-Osha
In order to crown Elegua (the seat) it is necessary to have previously received the warrior orishas. Later, during the coronation, it is also received: Oggun, Oshosi, Obatala, Oke, Yemaya, Ibeyis, Shangó, Ogué, Oshún and Oya.
Prayer to Elegua to open paths:
“Make health, prosperity and happiness illuminate my soul and my home, make the paths of well-being and happiness always open to me, open my paths to success, close my doors to failure. Make my work or business happy. , improvements, progress and abundance. Let there be no insecurities in my address and let no one interpose their betrayal or their offense.
That there is no more guarantee than my ability and skill, becoming of great value. vital force of life, defend my home as a fortress, that false witnesses do not sit at my table, look for decent work for me and the great honor of being my guide and light in my paths of good. Give me your blessings so that nothing hurts me and, with humility and fervor, I ask you to grant me your favors. So be it.
Prayer to Elegua in lucumi
First of all, the prayer to Elegua has to be transcribed by ear. So, it must be taken into account to pronounce all the consonants and vowels. And finally, the suyere is the part of the prayer that can be sung.
Eleggua Eshu Alawana
Ni Kokore Villa
Cheap numale, nimale kondolo
Iku yelede baraki Yelu
eshu afra
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Barasuayo, omo oni Alawana mamakeño Irawo, huh
Barasuayo, omo oni Alawana mamakeño Irawo, huh
Obara suayo Eke, Eshu odara
Omo oni Alawana mamakeño Irawo, huh
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