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Shango:God of Thunder and Lightning
Shango:God of Thunder and Lightning
Nigeria Staff for Shango Unknown Artist, Yoruba
people 19C Wood Hood Museum of Art
Nigeria Staff for Shango Unknown Artist, Yoruba
people 19C Wood Hood Museum of Art
protective goodnessprotective goodness
marks of royal family of Oyo, the lineage of Shango
thunderstonesthunderstones
symbolizes woman’s respect to the spirit world
symbolizes woman’s respect to the spirit world
Balanced fire
punishment
Yoruba in Nigeria performing a dance in honour of the god
Shango.
Yoruba in Nigeria performing a dance in honour of the god
Shango.
Staff for Shango
Shango 1Shango 1
Double-axe
Shango color: red and white
Shango
Shango 2 Shango 2
Shango color:
Red & white
Shango’s lighting will terrorize the liars.
Shango’s lighting will terrorize the liars.
Shango’sanger
Shango’sanger
Yoruba(see yellow area)
The Yoruba people live in Southwest Nigeria and Benin.
Yoruba(see yellow area)
The Yoruba people live in Southwest Nigeria and Benin.
www.lmp.ucla.edu/images/yoruba.gif
The climate is tropical rain forsest
Rainfall: more than sixty inches a year
The climate is tropical rain forsest
Rainfall: more than sixty inches a year
Language:Yoruba (Kwa)Language:Yoruba (Kwa)
The Yorùbá Alphabet (Abidi Yorùbá) The Yorùbá Alphabet (Abidi Yorùbá)
http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/yoruba/cut.html
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/yoruba.htm
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/721941...
http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/yoruba/cut.html
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/yoruba.htm
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/721941...
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