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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:shangodevoteestaff.JPG|200px|thumb|right|This is a staff carving of Shango, meant to be carried by a devotee of Shango in Nigeria]]<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Shango&#039;&#039;&#039; is the god of thunder and the ancestor of the [[Yoruba]] people of [[Nigeria]]. He is the son of [[Yemaja]] the mother goddess and protector of birth. Shango has three wives: [[Oya]], who stole Shango&#039;s secrets of magic; [[Oshun]], the river goddess who is Shango&#039;s favorite because of her culinary abilities; and [[Oba]], who tried to win his love by offering her ear for him to eat. He sent her away in anger and she became the river Oba, which is very turbulent where it meets the river Oshun.<br /> <br /> Shango is portrayed with a double axe on his head (the symbol of thunder), with six eyes and sometimes with three heads. His symbolic animal is the ram, and his favorite colors are red and white, which are regarded as being holy. In Brazil, Shango is worshipped as a thunder and weather god by the Umbandists. In [[Santeria]], Shango (Chango) is the equivalent of the [[catholic]] saint [[St. Barbara]].</div>

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