Ṣàngó

⚡️Ṣàngó: Orisha God of thunder and lightening. Ṣàngó is both a deified ancestor and a natural force. Oral tradition describes him as powerful, with a voice like thunder and a mouth that spewed fire when he spoke. Ṣàngó is viewed as the most powerful and feared of the orisha pantheon. He casts a "thundersone" to earth, which creates thunder and lightning, to anyone who offends him. In Yorubaland, Ṣàngó is worshiped on the fifth day of the week. The Oyo Empire declined in the 19th century which led to the enslavement of Fulani and Fon people. Ṣàngó’s thunderous energy became a symbol of the resistance of the Yoruba people during the 19th Century when many Yoruba people were taken from Africa to the Americas as slaves. African slaves and their descendants were able to reestablish Shango’s worship. In the early 21st century, Shango was worshipped in the Vodou religion of Haiti, the Santería tradition of Cuba, and also in the Candomblé cult of Brazil. Two new religious movements also bear his name: Trinidad Shango (also known as the Shango Baptists) and the Afro-Brazilian cult Xangô.