Oya warrior Queen

Oya Some accounts Oya as Shangos favorite wife. The goddess of storms have been said to have given Shango the ability to control thunder and lightening. Another version Shango went hunting one day in search of a buffalo. When he spotted his buffalo he intended to kill it but she turned into a beautiful woman. Shango fell in love Imediatley. Then took her back home with his other wives. Because of her powers in her intense exotic beauty she quickly became his favorite. Shortly after Shango disappears some say he killed himself after destroying his home with a lightening strike because of inexperience . Oya was said to join him. And was said to home Amongst sheep. Until she became one herself. So lame is taboo for children of Oya. Yoruba meaning for the name Oya means she tore. In other regions she is known as the mother of 9 due to the Niger River The principal river in west Africa that is made up of 9 streams. Oya a warrior Queen one capable of controlling the weather like the character Storm in the X-men. She is capable of summoning tornadoes rainstorms and Hurricanes. And blasting the air with thunder and lightening. The mother of Egungun the Ancestors. Oya the guardian of the realm between life and death. Goddess of storms funerals spirits-intuition and rebirth. She has the ability to call on the power of death OYA is protective over the one she loves. Although she wouldn’t think twice about destroying villagers with her powerful storms. Oya is unpredictable just like the weather she can change from your sweet heart to a magnanimous force of destruction!