Bara / Eshu
Olorun (the Creator) gave life to his eldest son, Obatala (Oshala(The Father)) where later, also gave him the mandate to form the physical material world. Oshala is the king of white color.
The second was Oduduwa, equal in importance. The Lord(or Queen) of the color black. Both were created in His own essence. From his breath.
Came the third ... The creator uses the ancient mud (matter disorderly) to form a mound. At the moment he breathed this mound became alive. Red and flaming.
Was born this way Eshu Yang (Eshu of Rock Red), Eshu Aba (Ancestral Eshu) or Eshu Iba Keta (Eshu Third Gourd or Third Created). The Lord of the color red.
The deities who participated in the creation of the material world are called Imoles.
These three ancient energies together (Anima Ashe / Sacred Force) concentrated all the power of creation given by the Supreme God. The energy of the white color stemmed from Oshala is called Iwa (active and generating). The black energy of Oduduwa is called Aba. Pregnant women symbolize this essence.
The red energy is called ashe. This energy makes moves the physical life. No it. The physical existence is only inanimate matter. Dead. Dispersed particles in a vacuum without cohesion ...
In cosmic level the Orisha Eshu is omnipresent in all creation. There is not a particle, an atom a living being a planet or a galaxy that does not move without the interference of this force this Orisha / Imole.
The Earth would not turn on its axis and around the sun or the elementary particles such as electrons would not run around the nucleus of atoms. Not would there be the law of attraction and repulsion of the molecules. The sperm would not reach the egg. The child would have no force or to be born, nor for its first breath of air.
No Eshu. No Creation ...
The power of Esu has no limits, comparable only to the Creator himself Olodumare (Lord of the destinations. One of the manifestations of the Supreme God).
The Africans called him thus to Eshu Elebara (Lord of Magical Power) for all these tasks.
Omnipresent in all creation ... since the elementary particle to the largest galaxies. To be everywhere in the universe, Eshu endowed with a startling rapidity, and it may move from one part to another in a fraction of time imaginable. Thus this Orisha became also the gifted power and control of locomotion, speed. And concomitantly messenger of the Creator. This power has a representation: a magical baton called Ogo.
Eshu has an intimate connection with Orunmila (Orisha who heads the guessing games) that need to have full access to Eshu. To see what happens with that consultant, at all levels of the Orun/Aiye (spiritual world and material world).
Nothing in the universe is so efficient and fast as him.
As messenger each Orisha has its Eshu. Serving to help him bringing news. Leading to Orunmila their wills. In this task he is known as Eshu Enu Barijo, the "Mouth Collective of the Orishas" by bringing them or take them messages.
To load the offerings of men to their destination by the Orisha, is invoked, in turn, as Eshu Eleru.
The creator has his Eshu. Osije Eshu with the task of moving over all creation, distributing his orders. Where the Creator takes notice of what is happening in your universe.
Eshu is also the embodiment of regent laws of the Cosmos. The cosmic order.
Is natural that all other forces of matter conductors are under their jurisdiction. Eshu, so it is also the great organizer, the officer on a level unparalleled. If Heaven is above and earth below, is a work of Eshu. If the seas remain in balance without encroaching on the land, is a work of Eshu. The planets in their orbit. Absolutely everything is balanced by its strength and power. It is this aspect that is so feared Eshu ... as the great ruler of the natural law of action and reaction! Cause and effect.
Eshu also appears in myths as the punitive aspect to men when they make mistakes or do not fulfill the religious precepts. This aspect of "punitive" nature never sleeps when he is injured. Eshu also appears as a powerful and feared even by Orishas. When the individual thinks that will never be punished for their bad attitudes, there comes the return of their evil deeds in one way or another. Here comes Eshu. We reap what we sow!
In fact, Eshu does not punish. Just makes it worth the unfailing natural code. But as in myth they gave him a humane way, he was represented like malicious, subtle, cheat, vindictive. Because Nature does not talk, does not warn ... the return is always slow. When you think that everything is at peace and forget the rest, he comes to test people, willing to show them as they truly are! In this aspect as avenger, we might call "negative" of the orisha, he is said Ebora. In this sense, everything that exists, all the Orisha whatever it is, also has side Ebora.
Eshu never incarnated as man, was never among us with a physical body.
To be everywhere simultaneously, Eshu need to know all the possible paths and unimaginable as it goes through them all. Going across the universe until Olodumare. Bringing and carrying messages of the Orishas in endless comings and goings. We then see the roads like physical symbol of those paths. Your focus of convergence is at the crossroads. Place of movement. Is in the roads that required speed to get to the destination ...
The entry and exit of cities, the passage between two worlds (Orun/Aiye) and all doors are usually contained your domain.
Today, in our cities, banks, supermarkets, bars, cross roads and interchanges, airports, stadiums, gymnasiums, bus stations, Internet ... all of these locations are dominated by the dynamic force of Eshu. There primordial force that promotes the growth, progress, happiness, communication, wealth!
As we speak, the crossroads is the major point of convergence. The African makes the figure of the three-pronged fork (trident) its symbolic representation
f a group. A family or a person is living with clean conscience. And making all religious precepts in his day. The strength of Eshu manifests as positive, dammed, nice, amazing. The prosperity is present.. because that family will know be hardworking, economical keeping a positive thought and faith. Finally knowing planting for spoon.
Whole nations are benefit when its people are of good character. Goodness, in a broader sense. This quality is blessed by Eshu. He is the embodiment, the materialization of the law of action and reaction.
Eshu, embodies the movement, the first impulse, the aspect germination (fertilizing) in Nature and the Cosmos. The symbol of Eshu could only be, in its simplest form, a human phallus, erect, powerful. The Ogo.