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Palmer notes that Legba can be referred to/identified as "the Devil", "Papa Legba", and "The Black Man" throughout the history of the blues. [4] This is also made clear in ethnomusicologist Bruno Blum 's text for the CD box set Voodoo in America [ 5 ] where reference to Papa Legba, deity of roads and crossroads, in Robert Johnson 's iconic song ...
Eleguá (Legba) is known in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Mexico as the orisha and "owner" of caminos, or roads and paths.Elegua is also known as a “trickster” and is portrayed as both being very young and mischievous as well as very old and wise, encompassing the varying paths and phases of fate and life.
In Rada ceremonies, the first lwa saluted is Papa Legba, also known as Legba. [109] Depicted as a feeble old man wearing rags and using a crutch, [110] Papa Legba is the protector of gates and fences and thus of the home, as well as of roads, paths, and crossroads. [111] In Petwo rites, the first lwa invoked is usually Mèt Kalfou. [112]
Another is the Rada lwa Legba, who directs human destiny, and who is paralleled in the Petwo pantheon by Kafou Legba, a trickster who causes accidents that alter a person's destiny. [46] The Gede (also Ghede or Guede) family of lwa are associated with the realm of the dead. [47] The head of the family is Baron Samedi ("Baron Saturday"). [48]
Dominican Vudú practitioners are often called Caballos ('Horses'), Brujos ('Witch doctors'), or Servidores ('Servants'), but they are also known as Papa Bokos and Papa Loa (priest); and Mama Mambos and Mama Loa (priestess). One who has obtained this title has gone through the last and highest level of initiation which can take anywhere between ...
Vodun (meaning spirit in the Fon and Ewe languages, pronounced with a nasal high-tone u; also spelled Vodon, Vodoun, Vodou, Voudou, Voodoo, etc.) is practiced by the Fon people of Benin, and southern and central Togo; as well in Ghana, and Nigeria.
Baron Samedi is discussed extensively in the four-part podcast titled Real Dictators: Papa Doc François Duvalier. Narrated by English actor Paul McGann, Duvalier and his purposeful adoption of Baron Samedi's dress, voice, and actions to frighten the Haitian people in order to further exploit them for his own political agenda.
The signifying monkey is a character of African-American folklore that derives from the trickster figure of Yoruba mythology, Esu Elegbara.This character was transported with Africans to the Americas under the names of Exu, Echu-Elegua, Papa Legba, and Papa Le Bas.