Ṣàwárí

The orisa of wind, storm and the Niger river, wife of Sango, the buffalo narrative, her relation to the dead, and the difference between the Yoruba Oya and the Oya of Cuba and Brazil.

Ṣàngó is worshipped as the òrìṣà of thunder and named in Ọ̀yọ́ king lists as the fourth Aláàfin, and this file sets out what each tradition says, why the two cannot simply be merged, and what scholars have argued.

A comprehensive scholarly reference on the Yoruba orisha Oya, covering her riverine, atmospheric, and ancestral domains, mythic variants, ritual priesthood, and transatlantic developments.

The binary signature, regional ranking disputes, published verses, and scholarly interpretations of Okanran Meji within the Ifa divination corpus.

The three water divinities' praise texts, including a case where a scholarly translation of Osun's oriki was found repackaged online without credit to its actual author.