Oyá
| Colours | Wine red |
|---|---|
| numbers | 9 |
| Catholic saint | Teresa of Ávila |
In the Yoruba religion, Oyá (Yansa) is the Orisha of the winds (afenfe), storms and the nine-armed Niger River . She is almost as powerful as Ms. Changós . She watches over the gates of the cemetery that she took over from Yemayá and in markets.
In a more general sense, Oyá is considered the goddess of change, transformation and transition. As the patroness of female leadership, she embodies a femininity that alternates between motherliness and warriorism, as well as the fight against injustice and oppression.
Web links
- Thomas Altmann: Yoruba religion (Lukumí) from 2009
- Kerstin Volkenandt: ( Memento from September 13, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) Chapter 6.1 of the essay Olodumare and the Orishas ( Memento from October 11, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Brooks de Vita, Alexis: Oya. In: Carole Boyce Davies: Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora . Barbara: ABC-CLIO 2008.
- Gleason, Judith: Oyá. Black Goddess of Africa. In: Shirley J. Nicholson (Ed.): The Goddess re-awakening . Wheaton, IL: Quest 1989.
- Gleason, Judith: Oya. In Praise of an African Goddess . San Francisco: Harper Collins 1992.
- Monaghan, Patricia: Lexicon of the Goddesses. Bern, Munich, Vienna: OW Barth 1997.
Footnotes
- ^ Judith Gleason: Oyá. Black Goddess of Africa. In: Shirley J. Nicholson (Ed.): The Goddess re-awakening. Wheaton, IL: Quest 1989, p. 56.
- ^ David W. Machacek and Melissa M. Wilcox: Sexuality and the World's Religions. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO 2003, p. 8.
- ↑ Alexis Brooks de Vita: Oya . In: Carole Boyce Davies: Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. Barbara: ABC-CLIO 2008, p. 734.