Asking for Help from Elegua

Names Known by: Orisha Elegua, Papa Legba, Eleggua

Saint: St. Anthony

Elegua is lord of all paths, crosses, gates and doors, and also of sorcery and cunning. Elegua is the owner and lord of The Ways of the Human Being! Elegua is the saint who helps us to unblock our paths to overcome the obstacles to defend ourselves from enemies, from envy, and from people with two faces that are false. The mare is the one who opens the paths and the destiny, she is the one who opens or closes the paths of life, prosperity and luck.

It is very important that we keep Elegua happy to help us close the Road to the tragedies and misfortunes of life. And in that way help us to open the paths to health, life, prosperity and success.

Remember that your Faith is the main ingredient!

Tips:

• burn incense for him every Monday.
• Used for the areas: closing and opening doors (physical and spiritual), for happy coincidences, overcoming obstacles, for good fate and new ways.

Elegua Incense Recipe

Elegua incense is also fairly easy to make, but you may need to work a bit to acquire some of the ingredients.  You will need a mortar and pestle or heavy-duty food grinder for this.  For some ingredients, you may not be able to find powdered, and this is okay.  The resins should be powdered though, and any oils or extracts you add, are thoroughly blended throughout the powdered ingredients.  You want whatever’s powdered, liquid, or viscous, to coat any larger chunks.

Ingredients

This recipe is for a big batch – so you can make a small batch just buy using less than what is suggested below

• 1/4 cup myrrh, benzoin, or almond resin tears or 1/8 cup powder
• 1/2 cup sandalwood or aloeswood/agarwood/oudh chips or 1/4 cup powder
• 1/4 cup chewing or hookah tobacco, preferably honey flavored
• 1/2 cup roasted coffee beans or 1/4 cup coffee powder
• 1 teaspoon cardamom unless the coffee already has it  (it may be called “hel”)
• 1/4 cup star anise or 1/8 cup powder
• 1/4 cup cinnamon bark chips or 1/8 cup cinnamon powder
• 1 heaping teaspoon clove powder
• 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes or powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• enough Elegua oil, added a few drops at a time, to make everything just a little “damp”
• (optional) ground rooster leg bones if you can find them, and if not, large chicken bones

Instructions:

On a Monday, gather all of your ingredients and arrange them on a plate, and when you do your normal offerings and open the ceremony, pass them through the smoke of the incense, and ask Eshu to bless them.

Grind the resins thoroughly, and even if everything is already powdered, mash them together in the mortar and pestle.  Then add the rest of the dry ingredients, and try to pulverize them as well as you can.

Add the tobacco, and keep pounding.

Then add the oil a few drops at a time, until you have a slightly damp, crumbly, sort of sticky mixture.

Transfer this to a glass jar, and let it age in a cool, dark place for three weeks.

Then it’s ready to use.

Burn this incense on a piece of charcoal or in a bakhoor burner.

Asking for Help

If you have problems moving forward with your life, aka you’re stuck at the crossroads, Legba is the one to reach out to. He does expect a payment, however, in exchange for his assistance. Typical offerings might include candy, such as chocolate and other candy, alcohol particularly dark rum, and pipe tobacco or cigars.

He can be summoned with his veve and proper offerings and a chant; one of the most popular is:

Papa Legba, open the gate for me,
Papa Legba open the gate for me,
Open the gate for me, Papa Legba,
that I may pass,
When I return I will thank the loa.

Prayer to Elegua

Oh Great Exu, Keeper of the Gate!
Between life and death
The physical and spiritual realm
The seen and the unseen
The known and the unknown
Please accept our humble invitation
To join in this feast.
We ask your permission
To commune with our Ancestors
And with the Lwa who came before.
Oh Great Exu, Keeper of the Gate!
Please open the gate for us.

 

Read More about Elegua

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Source:

• http://soulmindbody.net/esu/2010/09/esu/