Eshu
c. 800 CE – 2026 CEattested
Ile-Ife
- Yoruba
Messenger and trickster who stands at every crossroads and carries offerings between people and orishas. He once walked a boundary in a hat that was red on one side and black on the other, and two farmers came to blows over its colour.
Known for
- the two-coloured hat
- no offering arrives without him
- trickery that exposes certainty
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.