Eleggua as a Cosmic Force

Contrary to what most people believe not all roads of Elegua like children or want to play. Some can be
very serious and dangerous if annoyed or played with. Some can be very serious and dangerous if
annoyed or played with. One has to know the road of their Elegua and his particular characteristics. One
has to know the road of their Elegua and his particular characteristics. They are not all the same They
are not all the same

Elegua is the opener of the doors; the messenger of the gods; he is a great diviner who does not need an
oracle to see the future. He owns the keys to doors, and to evil as well as to good; he seems to take
pleasure in creating compromising situations and trouble between human beings; he can be equally cruel
and generous; he is the unexpected, treacherous and dangerous and capricious like fate itself; he is the
great justice wielder and though he may seem at times a master of deceit and the bringer of misfortune,
his actions are always justified because he alone knows the true meaning of justice and sees things
which are hidden from humanity, as well as from the other orishas. In other words, Elegua can be equally
identified with both fate and justice. It is said of this orisha that he's the lowest and the highest, a prince
and a pauper who is equally at ease in a palace and a garbage dump, where he often feasts. With Oya,
he rules over the fourwinds. He is a great healer and a master magician. His spells and amulets are all
powerful and impossible to destroy.