Those lucky enough to reach high hills besieged Eshu, the messenger orisha of roads and doors, to intervene on their behalf. Eshu told Orunmila about the flood and he used Obatala's golden chain ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil (RNS) — A march in honor of the orisha Eshu drew some 150,000 people in São Paulo recently, considered a rebuke to the rise of evangelical Christians’ political power.

But first Ulli Beier tells us a little about the Yoruba gods or orishas, including Eshu the trickster God. Ulli Beier: Now typically a Christian missionary would demonise everything see.