Original art, mounted and framed (mounted diagonally), physical mounted size (including framing) 14" x 14" (hung size 20" x 20"), $225.00 USD plus $20.00 shipping within the USA. (Massachusetts residents will be charged 6 ¼% sales tax.)
Image © 2004 E.J. Barnes
Legba is loa of the crossroads, metaphysical as well as physical. He guards the passageway between the visible and invisible worlds, and thus is always the first loa invoked. As "messenger of the loa" he is sometimes compared with the Greek Hermes/Roman Mercury. He is often portrayed as an old man leaning on a staff. Though usually a he, he is, unsurprisingly, sometimes regarded as being of indeterminate sex.
The traditional vever of Legba is a circle divided into four quadrants, with the center post of the temple as its hub, and a sword drawn to one side. I have turned the divided circle into a compass rose, extending the theme of dualities to the sun and moon, and black and white cosmic eggs. The sword has been replaced by old man Legba's staff, which becomes Hermes' cadeuceus. The symbol for Mercury is integrated into the innermost circle. The entire design is whimsically framed in the American street sign for a crossroad ahead.