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For the fish genus, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_prehistoric_cartilaginous_fish_genera#I" title="List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera">List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera § I</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;background-color: #93C572;">Ọya</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="font-size: 110%;">Storms, wind, thunder, lightning, the dead</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">Member of <a href="/wiki/Orisha" title="Orisha">Orisha</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Ians%C3%A3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Ians%C3%A3.jpg/220px-Ians%C3%A3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Ians%C3%A3.jpg/330px-Ians%C3%A3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Ians%C3%A3.jpg/440px-Ians%C3%A3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1882" data-file-height="2401" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Iansã Sculpture at the Catacumba Park, <a href="/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" title="Rio de Janeiro">Rio de Janeiro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data">Oyá or <b>Oiá</b>; <b>Yàńsàn-án</b> or <b>Yansã</b>; and <b>Iansá</b> or <b>Iansã</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Venerated in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yor%C3%B9b%C3%A1_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorùbá religion">Yorùbá religion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Umbanda" title="Umbanda">Umbanda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Candomble" class="mw-redirect" title="Candomble">Candomble</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quimbanda" title="Quimbanda">Quimbanda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Santeria">Santeria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haitian_Vodou" title="Haitian Vodou">Haitian Vodou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folk_Catholicism" title="Folk Catholicism">Folk Catholicism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Symbol</th><td class="infobox-data">lightning, the sword or machete, the flywhisk, water buffalo</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Color</th><td class="infobox-data">purple or red/burgundy, the rainbow</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_West_(Nigeria)" title="South West (Nigeria)">Nigeria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Benin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ethnic group</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yorùbá</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #93C572;">Genealogy</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shango" title="Shango">Shango</a><p><a href="/wiki/Ogun" title="Ogun">Ogun</a></p><p><a href="/wiki/Oko_(orisha)" title="Oko (orisha)">Oko</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ọya</b> (<a href="/wiki/Yor%C3%B9b%C3%A1_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorùbá language">Yorùbá</a>: <i>Ọya</i>, also known as <b>Oyá </b>or <b>Oiá</b>; <b>Yàńsàn-án</b> or <b>Yansã</b>; and <b>Iansá</b>, <b>Iansã</b>, or <b>Iansan</b> in <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a>) is an <a href="/wiki/Orisha" title="Orisha">Orisha</a> of winds, lightning, and violent storms.<sup id="cite_ref-ad_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ad-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Verger_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Verger-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a river deity she is also regarded as a deity of children, able to provide children to her devotees or those who come to her banks at the <a href="/wiki/Niger_river" class="mw-redirect" title="Niger river">Niger river</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Beliefs">Beliefs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%BB%8Cya&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Beliefs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ọya lived on Earth as a human from the town of Ira, in present day <a href="/wiki/Kwara_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Kwara state">Kwara state</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a>, where she was a wife of the <a href="/wiki/Alaafin_of_Oyo" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaafin of Oyo">Alaafin of Oyo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shango" title="Shango">Shango</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Yor%C3%B9b%C3%A1_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorùbá language">Yorùbá</a>, the name Ọya is believed to derive from the phrase coined from "ọ ya" which means "she tore," referring to her association with powerful winds. She was believed to have the power to <a href="/wiki/Shape-shift" class="mw-redirect" title="Shape-shift">shape-shift</a> into a <a href="/wiki/African_buffalo" title="African buffalo">buffalo</a>, and is often depicted as one in traditional Yorùbá poetry. As such, the buffalo serves as a major symbol of Ọya, and it is forbidden for her priests to kill one.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is known as <b>Ọya Ìyáńsàn-án, </b>the "mother of nine", because of the nine children she gave birth to with her third husband <a href="/wiki/Oko_(orisha)" title="Oko (orisha)">Oko</a>, after suffering from a lifetime of <a href="/wiki/Barrenness" class="mw-redirect" title="Barrenness">barrenness</a>. She is the patroness of the <a href="/wiki/Niger_River" title="Niger River">Niger River</a> (known to the <a href="/wiki/Yor%C3%B9b%C3%A1_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorùbá people">Yorùbá</a> as the Odò-Ọya).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_religion" title="Yoruba religion">Yoruba religion</a>, Ọya was married three times, first to the warrior orisha <a href="/wiki/Ogun" title="Ogun">Ogun</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Shango" title="Shango">Shango</a>, and finally, another hunting and farming deity, Oko. </p><p>Oya was traditionally worshipped only in the areas of <a href="/wiki/Yorubaland" title="Yorubaland">Yorubaland</a> once under the control and influence of the <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo Empire</a>. Because of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic slave trade</a>, many of her followers of <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo</a> origin were kidnapped and sold to the New World, where her worship became widespread. 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style="width: 20em;"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle" style="background-color: #93C572;">Part of <a href="/wiki/Category:Yoruba_religion" title="Category:Yoruba religion">a series</a> on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="background-color: #93C572;;color: white;"><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_religion" title="Yoruba religion"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#FFFFFF">Yoruba religion</span></a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Isese_religion.png" class="mw-file-description" title="The Global symbol of Ìṣẹ̀ṣe"><img alt="The Global symbol of Ìṣẹ̀ṣe" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Isese_religion.png/250px-Isese_religion.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Isese_religion.png/500px-Isese_religion.png 1.5x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="1500" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #93C572;"> <b><a href="/wiki/List_of_Yoruba_deities" title="List of Yoruba deities">Deities</a></b></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%8Cl%E1%BB%8Drun" title="Ọlọrun">Ọlọrun / Olodumare</a> / <a href="/wiki/Olofi" class="mw-redirect" title="Olofi">Olofin</a> <br /></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Orisha" title="Orisha">The Orisha</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Aganju" title="Aganju">Aganju</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agemo_(deity)" title="Agemo (deity)">Agemo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajaka" title="Ajaka">Ajaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayao" title="Ayao">Ayao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babal%C3%BA-Ay%C3%A9" title="Babalú-Ayé">Babalú-Ayé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elegua" title="Elegua">Elegua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erinle" class="mw-redirect" title="Erinle">Erinle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eshu" title="Eshu">Eshu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibeji" title="Ibeji">Ibeji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oduduwa" title="Oduduwa">Oduduwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogun" title="Ogun">Ogun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olokun" title="Olokun">Olokun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ori_(Yoruba)" title="Ori (Yoruba)">Ori</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oko_(Orisha)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oko (Orisha)">Oko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oshumare" class="mw-redirect" title="Oshumare">Oshumare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%8Cba" class="mw-redirect" title="Ọba">Ọba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%8Cbatala" title="Ọbatala">Ọbatala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%8Cranyan" title="Ọranyan">Ọranyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%8Crunmila" title="Ọrunmila">Ọrunmila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%8Csanyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Ọsanyin">Ọsanyin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%8C%E1%B9%A3%E1%BB%8D%E1%BB%8Dsi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ọṣọọsi">Ọṣọọsi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%8C%E1%B9%A3un" class="mw-redirect" title="Ọṣun">Ọṣun</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ọya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shango" title="Shango">Shango</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yem%E1%BB%8Dja" title="Yemọja">Yemọja</a></li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #93C572;"> Beliefs</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A%E1%B9%A3%E1%BA%B9" title="Aṣẹ">Aṣẹ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayagunna" title="Ayagunna">Ayagunna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_religion#Creation" title="Yoruba religion">Cosmology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egbere" title="Egbere">Egbere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_religion#Irunmọlẹ" title="Yoruba religion">Irunmọlẹ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/If%C3%A1" title="Ifá">Ifá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ori_(Yoruba)" title="Ori (Yoruba)">Ori</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ori%E1%B9%A3a" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriṣa">Oriṣa</a></li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #93C572;"> Practices</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ajere_Ifa" title="Ajere Ifa">Ajere Ifa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babalawo" title="Babalawo">Babalawo</a>/<a href="/wiki/Iyalawo" title="Iyalawo">Iyalawo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cowrie-shell_divination" title="Cowrie-shell divination">Cowrie-shell divination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egungun" title="Egungun">Egungun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epa_mask" title="Epa mask">Epa mask</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%E1%BA%B9l%E1%BA%B9d%E1%BA%B9" title="Gẹlẹdẹ">Gẹlẹdẹ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letra_del_a%C3%B1o" title="Letra del año">Letra del año</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obi_divination" title="Obi divination">Obi divination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osanyin_staff" title="Osanyin staff">Osanyin staff</a></li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #93C572;"> Variants</th></tr><tr><td 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id="Candombl.C3.A9"></span>Candomblé</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%BB%8Cya&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Candomblé"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9" title="Candomblé">Candomblé</a>, Oya is known as Oiá, lyá Mésàn, or most commonly, Iansã, from the Yoruba <i>Yánsán</i>. Iansã, as in <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> religion, commands winds, storms, and lightning. She is the queen of the <a href="/wiki/Niger_River" title="Niger River">river Niger</a> and the mother of nine. She is a warrior and is unbeatable. Attributes of Iansã include great intensity of feelings, sensations, and charm. Another ability attributed to Iansã is control over the mysteries that surround the dead.<sup id="cite_ref-oba_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oba-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Iansã is syncretized with <a href="/wiki/Saint_Barbara" title="Saint Barbara">Saint Barbara</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-henry_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-henry-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Candomblé <i>nação</i> (association) of Angola Congo, Iansã is associated with the color red.<sup id="cite_ref-b_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%BB%8Cya&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Salutation: "Eeparrei!", or "Epahhey, Oia!"</li> <li>Consecrated day: Thursday</li> <li>Colors: red, purple and rainbow, burgundy</li> <li>Symbols: "Buffalo tail" <i>eruquerê</i>, a ritual object; or a copper sword</li> <li>Prohibitions: pumpkin, stingray, and mutton</li> <li>Food: <a href="/wiki/Akara" title="Akara">acarajé/àkàrà</a><sup id="cite_ref-abc_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ritual_foods">Ritual foods</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%BB%8Cya&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ritual foods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Acaraj%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Acarajé">Acarajé</a> is a spherical patty made with peeled, crushed black-eyed peas, stuffed with small shrimp, okra, crushed peanuts, and other savory, piquant spices. The ball-like patty is fried in dendê oil (<a href="/wiki/Red_palm_oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Red palm oil">red palm oil</a>). It's a traditional Afro-Brazilian dish that is also a traditional offering to Iansã in the <a href="/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9" title="Candomblé">Candomblé</a> tradition. A simple, unseasoned form of acarajé is used in rituals and a version served with various condiments is sold as a common street food in <a href="/wiki/Bahia" title="Bahia">Bahia</a> in the northeast of Brazil. Ipeté and bobo de inhame are also associated with Iansã.<sup id="cite_ref-b_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Yorùbá, her food is <a href="/wiki/%C3%80k%C3%A0r%C3%A0" class="mw-redirect" title="Àkàrà">Àkàrà</a>. Eggplant, mulberries, pudding, and dark chocolate are also foods for Oya. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%BB%8Cya&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Egungun-oya" title="Egungun-oya">Egungun-oya</a></li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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Nigeria Publishers. p. 303. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781675098" title="Special:BookSources/9781675098"><bdi>9781675098</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%C3%8Cgb%C3%A0gb%E1%BB%8D%CC%81+%C3%A0ti+%E1%BA%B9%CC%80s%C3%ACn+Yor%C3%B9ba&rft.place=Ibadan&rft.pages=303&rft.pub=Evans+Bros.+Nigeria+Publishers&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=9781675098&rft.aulast=Adeoye&rft.aufirst=C.+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A%E1%BB%8Cya" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Verger-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Verger_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFVerger1989" class="citation book cs1">Verger, Pierre (1989). <i>Dílógún: Brazilian Tales of Yorùbá Divination Discovered in Bahia</i>. 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