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Perspective of Eshu

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Eshu is an Orisha which is a spirit that reflects one of the manifestations of Olodumare (God) in the Yoruba spiritual paradigms. He, is often worshiped as a god to himself. He protects travelers, and has dominion over roads, crossroads fortune/luck, and death.

Eshu was walking down the road one day, wearing a fantastic shimmering cloak that was red on one side and blue on the other. Sometime after he departed, the villagers who had seen him began arguing about whether the stranger's beautiful cloak was blue or red.

"NO! I saw it!" one man cried. "It was bluer than the sky at dusk!"

"Wrong! How can you be so blind?" asked an old elder woman. "My eyes are weak, but not so weak that I couldn't see that the cloak was red as the sun at dawn."

The villagers on one side of the road had only seen the blue side, and the villagers on the other side had only seen o the red half. They nearly came to blows over the argument, until Eshu came back and standing in middle of the crowd, he spun about so quickly that he appeared to be wearing a purple cloak awing them all. Thus Eshu taught the villagers about how one's perspective and bias can alter a person's perception of reality, and that ones eyes can be easily fooled.

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Eshu is a male deity, however he can look like whatever he wants.
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Credits:

Model:
Gold8 by Armathor Stock :iconarmathor-stock: [link]

Brushes:

My own :iconcrimsonvermil-stock:
Obsidian Dawns Glitter Brushes :iconredheadstock: [link]

Background from Nasa the Orion Nebula


This is my submission to :iconlillyfly06: Lillyfly06's Opposites contest. Check it out here [link]


I give permission to *Manipulators :iconmanipulators: to post this in their gallery.


I give my permission to :icondapagan: to display my work in the club's gallery.
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Starsong-Studio's avatar
 Hello, I would like to feature your beautiful work on my blog on Amazing Stories, for my series on Orixas! I will credit you, and link back to this image here on DA.
 
 The blog is scheduled for Wednesday 18 June, you will be able to find it by following this link: amazingstoriesmag.com/author/a…
 Please let me know if this is *not* ok with you! Keep up the good work!

PS: Apologies for copy-pasting this note: you may have received several of those by now! keeping up with all the notifications is quite a bit of work - and I'm not getting paid for this - so apologies if I cannot personalize every note! :)