The Trickster in our time. An interview with Bayo Akomolafe

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[@chininejacobson7608]

I am an American woman who is initiated in Yoruba ifa traditions. I have my eshu who lives in my house. Eshu is a Blessing in my life as my Odu is ogbe ate where eshu was born in this earth. Thank you Bayo for sharing eshu and his important sin our lives. Eshu aje is what I will receive next. Eshu protects me as I am a daughter of OSHUN! Ase

[@chininejacobson7608]

I must agree that eshu ha Completely destroyed my life path that I was completely Comfortable with just to redshift me to Elevate me to a better place in my life with many more blessings even though it may have seemed like such a loss and so painful only to have great blessings. Eshu is powerful and without him I would not on my own Evolved without resistance.

[@tarenmauga9582]

This is exactly the kind of conversation I've been wanting to listen to. Thank you Dr. Bayo and thank you so much Rune.

[@brookestabler3477]

Robert Johnson.

[@cynthiadollar9163]

Thanks!

[@yarrowwitch]

The 'Exu is not the devil' ìssue reminds me of the song 'Green and Grey' by Damh the Barď.

[@urubutingaz5898]

The crossover we've all been waiting for.

[@kdeediana]

Wonderful discussion! Would love to see more exchanges like this with experts from cultures around the world, they are deeply needed to help us rebuild relation.

[@Robert-gc9gc]

Rune, this is amazing! Keep being offensive , We need someone to point these things out

[@jasminmorley4644]

I'm literally guzzling this conversation down! It feels like even the parts I don't understand are sinking in somewhere beneath the surface. Going to listen again now... 🙃

[@apothecareyarts4076]

Thank you. This is the first conversation that has excited all my synapses in a very very long time!!

[@peterkurg8169]

Brilliant discussion, thank you - really enjoyed your consideration of Exu - watching from Australia. Axe!

[@nayauru]

Really interesting. How do we find our monsters, indeed!

[@BruceWaynesaysLandBack]

Awesome to hear the opening bit about you guys fanboying off-camera about potential new ideas and projects. Keep up posted on those!

[@trickysinger6592]

Awesome! Embrace the inner monster, walk into the mouth of mystery, into ontological apostacy. Great interview Rune! Watching from another Denmark, in Western Australia...aka Kwoorabup, place of the black swan, a village perched near the edge of a Gondwanaland remnant in unceded Pibbulmun/Menang boodja. Mythago's abound and ache for those with ears to see the eyes to hear ..the taste of memory. I just wanted to say how grateful I am for your work to reclaim euro traditionalist animist knowledge. Wonderful to see you and Bayo get so excited! The Yoruba tradition is fascinating and I agree it will become a dominant cultural tapestry, another aspect to the forests of mythago's that erupt from our intestines, from the little makers, to weave ever unfurling rhizomatic roots and ancient/future technologies of immanence.

[@frederickwessling2039]

As always amazing, timely, and deeply founded. Thank you both so much

[@bennmacstiofan4387]

This was incredibly I informative and delightful to see. Gave me some great insights into my own tradition. Go raibh míle maith agaibh!

[@agnieszka4868]

A wonderful conversation. So interesting. Thank you both.

[@sashasg11]

Two great speakers ... grateful. Sucha treat bless.🙏🏻😇💎👍

[@jeffersonpower3356]

Oh such a rich stimulating amazing conversation! Thanks to you both. I loved so many of the ideas. That we might be in the Ravenscene resonates so deeply. Here in Australia raven is mostly known a Crow. I deeply love and follow Crow.

[@achuvadia]

❤❤❤

[@keesboy]

ive been praying for these kind of exchanges - thank you so much!

[@lynnequity7296]

Love it. There is one being here exploring itself.

[@marykayryan7891]

For heaven sakes! Robert Johnson, the MOST famous blues guitarist of all time without whom no R & B, no rock and roll. Who, BTW, wrote Crossroads Blues.

[@urubutingaz5898]

🎶 Me and the devil, walking side by side 🎶

[@marykayryan7891]

Three and multiples thereof are sacred to the Irish and Celts generally also. Not to AT ALL JUSTIFY slavery, but as it happened and we cannot now change that, we can say that slavery brought African peoples to North and South America where their contributions to culture, taken from their African origins has been indescribably important. It is not an exaggeration to say that there isn't a single creative endeavor (spiritual, artistic, musical, scientific, social, educational...) that has not been profoundly shaped by the contribution of these people-who got here and throughout the world because of the hateful vile institution of slavery and colonialism in general Esu at work...apparently.

[@steveanderson3444]

I was going to interject my thoughts on the idea that the devil in Christian mythology is, in fact, the trickster. Then you went and covered it at the end with your reference in Genesis. One thing I do, quite often, point out is if you take the words christ and lucifer, not in the sense of the name, but the words themselves as they are originally presented, they both are defined as light bringers or bearers. Light, of course, being a metaphor for knowledge. Not to get political, but I do find it interesting, in the political theatre in the U.S, the demographic of the people so resistance and most reluctant to change, has embraced this trickster figure as some sort of hero and savior to the nation. That, in itself, is a bit paradoxical. A common notion I often repeat is that of constructive resistance. A theory which entered my head while studying Theosophy. The notion being how everything, physical, or abstract such as economies and societies, all function with the same mechanics as an atom. Protons and neutrons moving about via the resistance to one another. If one over powers the other, movement, i.e.life, ceases to exist. From the smallest microorganism up the bodies, solar systems, galaxies, they all function with this constructive resistance which is basically the catalyst for life. Thank you and your friend for sharing. This was a quite interesting topic. One I've often contemplated myself.

[@elenasolano4925]

Fantastic interview! Did anyone catch the name is the professor and/or the book about Esu @20:00?

[@beepboop204]

🙃