1, 2, & 3. ELEGGUA

Fetish:
Eleggua resides in a head shaped stone (they are now made of cement) with three cowrie shells making up the eyes and the mouth. The stone should be placed on the floor behind the front door. He may also be represented by a coconut.

Ornaments:
Anything used by children in their games: kites, whistles, balls, dolls, etc., belongs to Eleggua. He is also surrounded by: keys, a machete, a straw hat, lianas, deer antlers, hunting and fishing equipment; gold nuggets and silver coins; sticks collected in a wild place; decorated dry coconuts, large beer bottles, and goat horns.

Power objects:
The garabato stick (a shepherd's crook, sometimes only a crooked stick or cane).

Collars:
Red and black. Repeat pattern: Three red beads followed by three black beads, then a red bead alternates with a black bead three times.

Clothing:
Eleggua dresses in a frock coat and knickers with a big red chef's hat on his head. The costume is all in red and black. Sometimes, the colors alternate in stripes. The whole costume, especially the hat, is liberally ornamented with small bells and cowrie shells.

Offerings:
Eleggua likes strong colorless liquors (vodka, aguardiente, white rum), cigars, toasted corn, smoked fish, corojo butter, and sweets. Goats, roosters and mice are sacrificed

Dances:
When Eleggua "comes down", he will run and stand behind a door. He will leap and shake, making childish faces and playing children's games. Some of the movements may be quite erotic. He will joke with the audience and may disappear from sight only to return when least expected.
A characteristic dance step is to stand on one foot and to twirl rapidly.
Eleggua is always handed a garabato stick. He will use it to mime opening a path through heavy bush.
The other dancers imitate Eleggua's movements, either individually or as a group moving counter clockwise.

ELEGGUA 1

y barago /o moyu /ba /(rest)/
y barago /o moyu /ba o/mo de ko ni/
y barago /o mo yu /ba le leg ba /cho lo ni/

Honor and prayers to the stick.
To he who teaches, honor.
Honor the owner of life.
Eleggua owns the way.

Repeat as desired

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|        O           O  |        O           O  |r 

|    S           S      |    S             S    |l itot.
|        M   O   O      |    O       O          |r

|            S   S      |    S         S        |l iya
|O       M           M  |O           M         M|r

Alternate (iya):

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|        S   S   S      |        S   S   S      |l
|O                      |O                      |r

Alternate 2 (iya):

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|    S       S   S      |        S   S     S    |l iya
|O                      |O                      |r

ELEGGUA 2

y chonchona/
_______________________(repeat as desired)
...be /y chonchon a /be o da ra /
o le ri e /yo /y chon chon a /be o da ra /
o le ri e /yo la ro ye /chonchon a/...
_______________________________________
be/B
The knife, the knife.
Don't mock the magician.
Stop me.

Same as Eleggua 1

ELEGGUA 3

A bu/
_____________________________________________(repeat as desired)
kenke a /bu ken ke /la ro ye la /to kan a bu/
kenke a /bu ken ke /e chua la ro ye/nki o a bu/
________________________________________________

Out of the way of little loud Laroye.
Out of the way of little loud Echu.

Repeat as desired

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|        O           O  |        O           O  |r 

|    S           S      |    S             S    |l itot.
|O       O              |    O       O          |r

|S       S              |    S       S          |l iya
|                O      |O                      |r 

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|        O           O  |        O           O  |r 

|      S           S    |      S           S    |l itot.
|    M           M      |    M           M      |r

|S   S       S   S      |S   S       S          |l iya
|O           O          |O           O       O  |r

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|        O           O  |        O           O  |r 

|    S           S      |    S             S    |l itot.
|O       O              |    O       O          |r 

|S       S              |    S       S          |l iya
|                O      |O                   O  |r

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|        O           O  |        O           O  |r 

|    S           S      |    S           S      |l itot.
|  M     O   M   O      |M   O                  |r

|  S         S   S      |S   S       S          |l iya
|M       O              |            O   O   O  |r

Alternative:

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|        O           O  |        O           O  |r 

|    S           S      |    S             S    |l itot.
|O       O              |    O       O          |r

|S       S              |    S       S          |l iya
|                O      |O                      |r 

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|        O           O  |        O           O  |r 

|      S           S    |      S           S    |l itot.
|      O           O    |      O                |r

|S           S          |S                      |l iya
|O           O          |O           O       O  |r

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|        O           O  |        O           O  |r 

|    S           S      |    S             S    |l itot.
|O       O              |    O       O          |r 

|S       S              |    S       S          |l iya
|                O      |O                   O  |r

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|        O           O  |        O           O  |r 

|    S           S      |    S           S      |l itot.
|  M     O   M   O      |M   O                  |r

|  S     S   S   S      |S   S       S          |l iya
|O                      |            O   O   O  |r