Ọya, Ìyáńsàn-án, and the Nine Ìgbálẹ̀
A Scholarly Redraft on the White Ancestral Forms of the Storm Queen Introduction Among the major Òrìṣà, Ọya stands at one of the most difficult thresholds in Yorùbá religion. She governs storm, violent wind, lightning, the Odò Ọya (the Niger), and—just as importantly—the boundary between the living and the dead. Standard reference summaries consistently preserve this dual profile: Ọya […]