Shango

deity sky Yoruba corroborated · 9

Yoruba god of thunder, fire, and justice.

↻ synthesized from 9 sources

When

First attested
0 CE
Attested period
0 – 2020
Historical notes
Living tradition documented in West Africa, Brazil, and Cuba.

Relationships

manifests as
Ayrá, Agodo, Afonja, Lubé, Obomin
syncretized with
Saint Barbara, Saint Jerome, Ajagun
sibling of
Babalú-Ayé
consort of
Oyá, Oshun, Obá
enemy of
Ogun
created by
Olodumare
allied with
Oshun, Eshu Bi, Oko
served by
Ibeji
child of
Olodumare

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Sources

Source passages

“some depictions of Shango and Adams”

#140 · extracted by claude-sonnet-4-6

“Santeria.fr: All about Shango Archived 2016-09-17 at the Wayback Machine”

#782 · extracted by claude-sonnet-4-6

“Ọya lived on Earth as a human from the town of Ira, in present day Kwara state, Nigeria, where she was a wife of the Alaafin of Oyo, Shango.”

#785 · extracted by claude-sonnet-4-6

“In the Yoruba religion, Ọya was married three times, first to the warrior orisha Ogun, then Shango, and finally, another hunting and farming deity, Oko.”

#12953 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“According to the Ifa Literary Corpus, Oshun was the only female Irunmole (primordial spirit) sent to assist Shango to create the world by Olodumare, the Supreme God. The other spirits sent ignored Oshun, who went to Shango for guidance.”

#23767 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001