ESHU LAROYE

This Eshu is a dancer and a lover of money. Among its characteristics are that it is very mocking, gluttonous, spoiled and often malicious. She loves sweets, candies and all kinds of trinkets, as well as toys, tobacco and brandy. They are offered corn pellets with honey and guava.

Eshu Laroye is very wise and his place is in the door of the entrance of the house, for this, he knows everything and warns of the diseases and dangers that lie ahead. He is a warrior and likes to walk with Oggun and Oshosi. He protects the house and should be asked for advice on business matters.

It can be found in rivers and it protects Oshún a lot. In a patakí or history, he is considered Oya's son, he left him, hence his name comes from Laroye, although others say that his name means talker.

Being son of Oyá he took refuge in the doors of the houses, until he began to live by the river with Oshún. He is the guardian of the children in general but above all of the beggars, orphaned and helpless children.

Among his tools is a guirito with water, a walking cane made of guava wood, a cazuelita with sweets and money and three machetes with which he defends the door of the house. Their children are recommended to give alms and food to street children. He is known as the limosnerito child

King Okuboro and his wife Añaki had a son whom they called Elegua. He was a restless and playful child who liked to play pranks.

When he was a teenager, he went out for a day with his entourage and when passing through a field where the grass was very high, the prince ordered to stop, went to the tangled jungle and walked to a place where he seemed to have seen a mysterious light .

There he found a dry coconut with two small eyes shining and with great respect he picked it up, to the astonishment of his companions, who did not understand how an object, apparently insignificant, had managed to appease the restless boy.

They say that nobody paid any attention to the discovery of the prince, so he left him behind the door and locked himself in their rooms.

Three days later Eleguá died and the coconut began to shine with such intensity that everyone was overwhelmed.

After the incident they forgot the coconut. There was a chain of natural catastrophes, wars and famines that were destroying the people. Someone had the sense to remember the coconut that lay forgotten behind the door of the palace and went to look for it, but they found it rotten and full of insects.

They agreed then to throw it in the same place where the deceased prince had found it. When they threw it, it collided with a stone and broke into four pieces, two with the mass up and two down. Immediately the stone lit up as the coconut had done before. Those present took it with great respect, took it to the palace and placed it behind the door.

There they always remembered the memory of Prince Elegua and then came a time of peace and prosperity
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