Orisha Tricker - Eshu - Yoruba - Nigeria

Representation of Eshu the Yoruba trickster. (Nigeria)

Height: 24.5 cm.
Patina from use, mirrors, cowries.

Among the Yoruba people, Eshu is the god of destiny who watches over places of passage and the messenger between the deities and human beings because he knows all languages.

But he is also a trickster god, responsible for some misdeeds. He was a servant of Orisha, but he hated him so much that one day he rolled a huge boulder onto his house, killing Orisha.