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Visual depiction of Legba

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Legba

Vodou loa of crossroads and communication


an old man with a cane and pipe at the gateway between worlds, his dogs at his feet as all paths open before him

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
trickster

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.