Name of a powerful and revered VoudounLoa. Originally a solar-phallic deity from Dahomey, Legba is now seen as an old man. However he is still a guardian, an opener of the ritual, and the Loa who is saluted first during any ritual for the purpose of communicating with other Loa.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...