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Undated

Undated: (Legba, the Rada Lwa Who Guards the Gateway Between the Human and Spirit Worlds, Whose Invocation Opens Every Vodou Ceremony, Associated With Daylig…

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Undated: (Legba, the Rada Lwa Who Guards the Gateway Between the Human and Spirit Worlds, Whose Invocation Opens Every Vodou Ceremony, Associated With Daylight, Positivity, and the Symbol of the Cross): Legba is the gatekeeper. Every Vodou ceremony begins with an invocation to him because he controls the portal between the natural and spiritual worlds, and nothing moves between those realms without his permission. He belongs to the Rada nation of lwa, the side associated with benevolence and order, and he is the symbol of daylight and all things positive. His color is black and his symbol is the cross. Catholic syncretism linked him to Saint Peter, the keeper of heaven’s gates, which is one of the more elegant correspondences in the Vodou-Catholic fusion. Without Legba’s consent, no other lwa can arrive at a ceremony. He is, in the most literal sense, where everything begins.