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.