Yoruba Orishas
Eshu
Crossroads, choices, the messenger
In the Yoruba Orishas table used by the Who Watches Over You calculator, Eshu answers to the number 3: the day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit.
Born under Eshu
Eshu stands at the crossroads and carries every message between the worlds; nothing reaches the gods without him. You are the connector, quick and funny and impossible to pin down, and your tests of other people are how you find out who they are.
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The psychic number is the day of the month reduced to one digit, so these are the days of any month that answer to 3.
- 3
- 12
- 21
- 30
About the Yoruba Orishas gods
The Orishas of the Yoruba tradition each have sacred numbers of their own, and this table keeps them where they are single digits: Eshu's 3, Oshun's 5, Shango's 6, Yemaya's 7, Obatala's 8, Oya's 9. Orunmila, Babalu-Aye and Ogun take the numbers their domains fit.
The same number in other traditions
- ZeusGreek Mythology · Sky, thunder, justice, kingship
- ThothEgyptian Mythology · Knowledge, writing, magic, the moon
- OdinNorse Mythology · Wisdom, war, death, poetry, runes
- BenzaitenJapanese Mythology · Music, eloquence, water, knowledge
- ItzamnaMayan Mythology · Creation, writing, knowledge, sky
- JupiterRoman Mythology · Sky, thunder, law, the state
- MardukBabylonian Gods · Kingship, order, creation, Babylon
- VishnuHindu Deities · Preservation, order, protection, dharma
- BrigidCeltic Mythology · Poetry, the forge, healing, the hearth
- SvarogSlavic Mythology · Sky, celestial fire, the forge, creation
- WenchangChinese Deities · Literature, learning, examinations, writing
- ViracochaInca Mythology · Creation, the sea-foam, civilisation, teaching
- AtarPersian Gods · Fire, energy, the sacred flame, truth
- LonoHawaiian Gods · Rain, agriculture, peace, the Makahiki
- RongoPolynesian Gods · Cultivated food, the kūmara, peace
- QuetzalcoatlAztec Gods · Wind, learning, the calendar, the feathered serpent
- EnlilSumerian Gods · Wind, kingship, the tablet of destinies, Nippur
- ElPhoenician Gods · The father of gods, the bull, wisdom, years
In the Vedic table the number 3 belongs to Lord Vishnu, through Jupiter.
The other Yoruba Orishas gods
Frequently Asked Questions About Numerology
- How is Eshu linked to the number 3?
- Through the psychic number of Vedic numerology: the day of the month you were born, reduced to one digit. Each pantheon on this site assigns one god to each number from 1 to 9, and Eshu holds 3 in the Yoruba Orishas table.
- Is this a traditional Yoruba Orishas belief?
- No. The gods and their domains are traditional; pairing them with birth numbers is a modern numerological reading, and it is presented here as reflection rather than doctrine.
- What if my life path is different from my birth day number?
- They are two different numbers. This page follows the day of the month; the life path uses your whole date of birth and has its own pages under Numbers.