The World of Eshú and Pomba Gira - страница 7

All these characteristics depict Eshu perfectly, and red and black are the best colours to physically represent Eshu.

Actually, the word Eshu means messenger. Eshu is the astral messenger of the Orishas: only Eshu can cross dimensions and go to the other side, see the future and the past. Eshu’s power is uncontrollable and its strength infinite.

It is said that Eshu is a messenger, an astral police. To talk about Eshu also means to talk about Quimbanda, Umbanda, or Candomblé (the different Afro-Brazilian cultures in which Eshu is present).

Eshu is the balance of all these cultures, the link that makes them all work, although Eshu has specific characteristics in each culture.

Eshu protects and takes care of humans but does not assume their mistakes. Eshu gives women and men the possibility of doing good and evil. Eshu only asks for a reward for his work, which must be always given and never forgotten since his anger can be terrible.

Eshu is a very playful, boisterous, tireless, and naughty entity. Eshu likes to make jokes to people and loves to have fun. This entity knows everyone’s weak points and if someone offends him, he will use all the information so that her/his life is much more complicated, and he will not appear when his help is needed.

Eshu puts temptations in people’s way to allow them the freedom to choose the path they want to follow and assume their own responsibilities never held Eshu accountable.

Eshu is an entity that regulates karma: he puts difficulties and temptations on the way, but also gives people the possibility of rejecting or accepting the spiritual path, the place of carnal, earthly and material temptations. People decide and Eshu acts.

Eshu carries out the work entrusted to the Orishas and the works that are entrusted to him.

Every Eshu works for a specific Orisha and every Eshu has its own assistants, thus forming a perfect hierarchical organisation.

Eshu is spiritual with an individual mission and with his own work (see Eshu law chart).

We all follow God's commands and we always try to do good. The bad guy is not Eshu, but each one of us with our attitudes and behaviour, grudges, hatreds and resentments gathered in our hearts that make us act in one way or another.

No Orisha will listen to you unless you have entrusted your request to an Eshu first.