Egungun
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Egungun in the broadest sense is any Yoruba masquerade or masked, costumed figure. More specifically, it is a Yoruba masquerade for ancestor reverence, or the ancestors themselves as a collective forc
Egungun, masked costumed figures of the Yoruba people in Oyo
Egungun in the city of Ouidah
'Egunguns' are said to represent the dead in the society
Costumed voudou figure
Ọya
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Ọya is one of the principal female deities of the Yoruba pantheon. She is the oriṣa of winds, lightning, and storms and is the only oriṣa capable of controlling the Eégún, a power given to her by Baba
Egungun
…closely related to the choreography of the performance. Henry Drewal hypothesizes that the breeze of blessing created by the Egungun may also relate to Oya, the wife of Shango, the deified fourth king of Oyo and the god of thunder. Oya is the whirlwind, considered a wind of blessing, that precedes Shango…
Iansã sculpture at the Catacumba Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil