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What Esu is in the Yoruba sources, why the divination system cannot function without him, and the documented history of the missionary translation that turned him into Satan.
A historical and scholarly examination of the translation of the Yorùbá deity Èṣù into the Christian Satan, the nineteenth-century colonial mechanisms of that conflation, and twentieth-century academic rehabilitations.