As God of Thunder it was his job to keep the Nigerian countryside fertile.
Portrayed with a double axe on his head, six eyes, and sometimes with three heads, his animal is the ram. His Nago incarnation is a powerful loa and he is worshipped as the equivalent of St. Barbara in Santeria. The son of Yemaja, he has three wives: Oya the sorceress, Oschun the river goddess, and Oba who tried to win his love by offering herself for him to eat. As God of Thunder it was his job to keep the Nigerian countryside fertile. FTP identify this ancestor of the Yoruba people, whose name also identifies a 1990s wrestler in the WWF when you put the word "Papa" in front.
Portrayed with a double axe on his head, six eyes, and sometimes with three heads, his animal is the ram.
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