Eshu the Trickster

For training at the Museum today we were in the African Galleries and talked  about this  sculpture honoring Eshu a traditional Yaruba trickster that means to fool people.  There are many stories and myths about this character, including this one
“ There is a wonderful story in some African tradition of the god who’s walking down the road wearing a hat that is colored red on one side and blue on the other side. When the farmers in the field go into the village in the evening, they say, “Did you see that god with the blue hat?” And the others say, “No, no, he had a red hat on.” And they get into a fight. …that’s the Nigerian trickster god, Eshu. He makes it even worse by first walking in one direction and then turning around and turning his hat around, too, so that again it will be red or blue. Then when these two chaps get into a fight and are brought before the king for judgment, this trickster god appears, and he says, “It’s my fault, I did it, and I meant to do it. Spreading strife is my greatest joy."


Thought this might work for Monomonday Fool