Shango
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Shango is the Orisha of fire, thunder, lightning, virility, dance, drumming, strength and justice in the Yoruba religion. Genealogically, Shango is a royal ancestor of the Yoruba as he was the third A
Representation of Ṣàngó, National Museum of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Shango painting by Flavio Dutra.
Shango float at the Parade of Champions, Rio Carnival, Sapucaí.
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Oshun
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Oshun is the orisha associated with love, sexuality, fertility, femininity, water, destiny, divination, purity, wealth, prosperity and beauty, and the Osun River, in the Yoruba religion. She is consid
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…continuous campaigns and many battles. His reign ended due to the inadvertent destruction of his palace by lightning. He had three wives, namely Queen Oshun, Queen Ọba, and Queen Ọya. Some of the slaves brought to the Americas were Yoruba, one of the various ethnic groups drawn into the Atlantic slave trade…
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Shrine to Oshun in the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
The Yoruba goddess Oshun is sometimes syncretised with the Virgin Mary by Santeria believers of the Yoruba religion.
An Arugba at the Osun-Osogbo festival