Syncretic Wife Of Esu Elegbara , the Pombagira Worshiped In Brazil , In-depth Analysis By Adeyinka Olaiya Identified as the wife of Esu , Pombagira is an entity from the highly syncretic twentieth-century Brazilian Umbanda and Quimbanda religion . It is the name of an Afro-Brazilian spirit evoked by the practitioners of Umbanda and Quimbanda , a version of African traditional religion in Brazil . Pombagira , in its modern spiritual concepts , is the wife of Esu , the Brazilian path of Esu Elegbara . While Esu