Legba

Legba, in Fon Lɛgbà and in Ewe Elegba, is a vodun and the intermediary between god and humans. He may have been taken over from the Yoruba Eshu-Elegba.

He is invoked first at every ceremony. He appears as an old man with a crutch, straw hat and pipe, and the dog is sacred to him. In the Atlantic diaspora he became Papa Legba, identified with Saint Peter.