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Yoruban deity
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shango
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Shango (known as Changó or Xangô in Latin America ; and also known as Jakuta ) (from '=shan, 'to strike') is an Orisha . He is syncretized with either Saint Barbara or Saint Jerome . Shango is historically a royal ancestor of the Yoruba as he was the third ...
Usage examples of shango.
Special way a speakin, more important, a hearin what Yemaya an Shango wanna tell me.
He sang to Elegba, to Ogu, Shango, Zaka, and to many others, all the gods the captives had brought with them to the island, brought in their minds and their secret hearts.
The days of feasting and singing and dancing attracted Shango worshipers, who believed that the African god of thunder and thunderbolts punished troublemakers and rewarded his worshipers.