Eshu Two Hats

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Two friends swore nothing could ever divide them. Eshu walked the boundary-path between their fields wearing a hat black on the one side and white on the other; afterward each swore to the colour he had seen, called the other a liar, and they came to blows. Eshu's lesson: the truth wears more than one face, and at the crossroads certainty fails. — Yoruba tale