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...