The Legend Of Elegua

The legend of Elegua It counts the history that many many years ago, in the fastuoso kingdom of an African monarch, was born its first-born son to whom they called Elegua. To the 8 years, the young very precocious era, daring and travieso and employed much to its ancestors. A day, walking by the border of the sea with his they guardian, vió an object to shine next to a palm and ran to take it. His guardian tried to prevent it, coming up to him that he could be a dangerous object since was rare and had two intense lights in the place of the eyes and a white cloud and weighs left its mouth, but Elegua he escaped of the hands of its protector and escorts and he ran to take the object to take it to it. When it had vió that was the fruit of a coconut palm and was fascinated, then it heard a voice that said to him, "cuidame and líbrame of polillas and the worms that they will love to eat to me with time; if you protect to me, I will give to health and prosperity you ". The boy promised to the Coco to take care of of him

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There he told his history to his father and to all the cut, but all made fun of of him and played ball with the Coco, throwing it from a side to another one without Elegua could avoid it, and the advisor of the king said to him to this one: "your son will give problems you with that

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imagination that he has, we are going to hide the Coco so that he forgets that invention". But that one same day the boy became ill, and three days later he died. The cut and all the town cried the death of the prince and called to a fortune teller who said to them that a good genius that he lived locked up in the Coco had been ultrajado victim and and who for that reason had died the prince.

As of that moment the king, sorry, commanded to venerate to the Coco and to request his pardon and protection, but the eyes of the Coco never more returned to shine. Consulted the fortune teller again it said: "we must put eyes, mouth and ears to him so that it listens and it can speak to us to us". So they inlaid to him snails in the place of the eyes and the genius returned to see. Soon they inlaid two shells to him in the ears and the genius returned to listen to its plegarias. Finally, they put a mouth to him and the genius spoke and transmitted all his sabiduria to that ignorante town and it pardoned it.

Those snails that the fortune teller used were bucios, since then the bucios acquired the gift and the power to communicate to the mortals their aims through the divination, as well as the will of the spirits of deads and the one of the Gods. The Coco, to who they put the name of prince Elegua, since then was adored and consulted with respect by all the wise people, fortune tellers and healers of all the times...