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 |  |  | Yoruba mythology - Other concepts: Encyclopedia II - Yoruba mythology - DeitiesYoruba deities are called Orishas. The primordial, first-existing, Orishas are called Obatala and Odùduwà, brother and sister respectively, and their father Olorun. Obatala created humanity and Olorun gave life to the hollow shells Obatala had made. Obatala and Odùduwà later had a son, Aganyu, and a daughter, Yemaja, who was a mother goddess. Her son, Ogun, raped her twice; the second time, her body exploded and fifteen Orishas came out. They included Oshun, Olukun, Shakpana, Shango.
Shango is perhaps the most important Orisha; god of thunder and an ancestor of the Yorùbá. He was the fourth king o ...
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 |  |  | Yoruba mythology - Other concepts: Encyclopedia II - Yoruba mythology - Yoruba mythology in the New WorldMany ethnic Yoruba were taken as slaves to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil and the rest of the New World (chiefly in the 19th century, after the Oyo empire collapsed and the region plunged into civil war), and carried their religious beliefs with them. These concepts were combined with preexisting African-based cults, Christianity, Native American mythology, and Kardecist Spiritism into various New World lineages:
Santería (Cuba)
Oyotunji (USA)]
Idigene (Nigeria)
Anago (Nigeria)
Candombl ...
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