#Oya is believed to have been Shango's favorite wife. She is also called "the one who uses air as her cutlass", "the one who wraps herself in fire, like a cloth", "the one who puts on pants to go to war", and "the one who grows a beard to go to war". She was known to lead Shango in battle, which makes sense physically as Oya is the Orisha of lightening, and Shango is the Orisha of thunder (lightning always precedes thunder). As the deity of the wind, Oya manifests in Creation in the forms of sudden and drastic change, strong storms, and the flash of the marketplace. Her representation of natural disasters and death is not as arbitrary as it may seem, these factors often serving as a means of creation for her. #Yoruba #Orisha #GoddessofWind #DoResearch #AfricanDeity #KnowThyself #WhatisyourHistory
