"Often there are multiple avatars of the same Sacred force, while collectivities develop different relationships to the same multilayered entity as Sacred energies engage the different inventions of the social. Not paradoxically within Vodou, Lucumí, and Candomblé is retained the manifest energies of Eshu/Papa Legba/ Elegba/Elegbara, guardian of Divine energy and communication, guardian of the crossroads, the force that makes things happen, the codification of potentiality and its indispensable tool, choice, which is multiplied at the crossroads—the place where judicious vigilance needs always to be exercised. Still, who is remembered—and how—is continually being transformed through a web of interpretive systems that ground meaning and imagination in principles that are ancient with an apparent placement in a different time. Yet, both the boundaries of those principles as well as what lies within are constantly being transformed in the process of work in the present; collapsing, ultimately, the rigid demarcation of the prescriptive past, present, and future of linear time. Both change and changelessness, then, are constant."
From chapter 7 of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred - M. Jacqui Alexander
