Voodoo Trickster Gods of Africa and Haiti - Mythillogical Mini

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Who's that figure standing at the crossroads? After following Anansi’s journey from Africa to the New World, today’s bonus episode sees Charles and Crofty investigate two other trickster figures who were brought from Africa to the Americas, the gods Eshu and Legba.

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Sources for today's video included:

Who Is That Fellow in the Many-Colored Cap? Transformations of Eshu in Old
and New World Mythologies by Donald Consentino
https://www.centroafrobogota.com/attachments/article/24/17106647-Ellegua-Eshu-New-World-Old-World.pdf

Anansi, Eshu and Legba. Slave Resistance and the West African Trickster by Dr Emily Zobel Marshall
https://www.academia.edu/4730679/_2010_Anansi_Eshu_and_Legba_Slave_Resistance_and_the_West_African_Trickster_in_Hoermann_R_and_Mackenthun_G_eds_Bonded_Labour_in_the_Cultural_Contact_Zone_Transdisciplinary_Perspectives_on_Slavery_and_Its_Discourses_M%C3%BCnster_Waxmann_

The Trickster in West Africa: A Study of Mythic Irony and Sacred Delight by Robert D. Pelton
https://archive.org/details/tricksterinwesta0000pelt

Eshu-Elegba: The Yoruba Trickster God by John Pemberton
https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/system/local_files/files/000/000/239/original/Pemberton__Eshu-Elegba__Yoruba_Trickster_God.pdf?1490887290

Trickster makes the World by Professor Hyde Lewis
https://archive.org/details/trickstermakesth00hyde

Yorùbá Influences on Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo by Ina J. Fandrich
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021934705280410?journalCode=jbsa#:~:text=It%20is%20interesting%20but%20not,Ogun's%20might%20for%20their%20success.

The Haitian Voodoo handbook: Protocols for Riding with the Lwa by Kenaz Filan
https://www.scribd.com/book/351488048/The-Haitian-Vodou-Handbook-Protocols-for-Riding-with-the-Lwa

A Meeting with the Devil at the Crossroads: A Contemporary Legend? by Gail de Vos
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/cl/article/view/35035/38222

Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer
https://archive.org/details/deepblues00palm

Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/

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