Eleke Beads Color Meaning
Much like a painter expresses emotions through a palette of colors, the orishas, too, have distinctive hues representing their divine identities. These colors reflect elegua's dual nature of opening and closing paths. These resonating colors are elegantly reflected in the vibrantly beaded elekes,. Black and red beads represent elegua, the trickster and messenger orisha. Each necklace or eleke it has its colored beads, many of them vary depending on the meaning and path of the orisha they represent.
Webcolors of osha's necklaces.