Norse
Odin
wisdom, poetry, war
Ọya
Yoruba (Orisha) tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- wind, storms, cemeteries, change
- Symbols and attributes
- Buffalo horns; the Niger river
- Partner
- Ṣàngó
Key myth
Ọya is the river Niger as the Yoruba know it (Odò Ọya), and a warrior orisha of the wind. In Lucumí tradition she guards the gate of the cemetery.
Place in the family graph
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Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Ọya: sky, storm and thunder, death and the underworld. This is overlap in one area only.