Esu: The Misunderstood god of Yoruba Religion

"There is one deity who needs reparations from the European World, especially the missionaries, it’s this poor man sitting here: Esu–the most maligned deity. Simply because these Christian missionaries, when they came, they needed the devil, a figure of the devil, to terrify...

the interpreters of Ifa, guarding the gateway to divination. He is also mischievous, by the way, that’s not  to be denied. He is god of the crossroads, he confuses human beings sometimes, like some people do. He’s a dialectician. This is the dialectician of the Yoruba deities.

The one who says to even other deities: reality is deceptive, always looks beneath the surface, does not trust appearances. Esu is a cautionary figure and because he's so rascally that's why, in a festival, the first morsel is given to ESU. He's a prankster, he's not evil at all

Is one of the most blasphemous statements, about any deity, is by the missionaries in regard to Esu. This is why in the diaspora, in Brazil for  instance, in which he’s been enthroned as the principal deity –which of course is false–and when I tell them that, they're surprised.