In Haitian Vodou, Papa Legba is the intermediary between the loa and humanity. He stands at a spiritual crossroads and gives (or denies) permission to speak with the spirits of Guinee, and is believed to speak all human languages.
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“Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonnato prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? Its the sign of the misogynist.”
—Christina Stead (19021983)