Papa Legba
c. 1600 CE – 2026 CEattested
Ouidah and the Caribbean
- Fon
Keeper of the crossroads, addressed first in any ceremony because nothing reaches the other spirits without him. Carried across the Atlantic in the slave trade, he survives in Haitian Vodou as an old man with a cane.
Known for
- the gatekeeper spoken to first
- the crossroads
- a god who crossed the Atlantic
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.