Ogou is the lwa of iron and by extension of everything made of it, of war, of soldiers, and of politics — and in Haiti those categories have never been far apart. He exists in many aspects across both Rada and Petwo, Ogou Feray being the most martial. He is served with rum, cigars, and red; his emblem is a machete driven into the earth; he is paired with Saint James the Greater on horseback. Because he is the lwa of the revolution, Ogou's appearances carry explicitly political content: when he mounts someone he characteristically arrives angry, delivers judgments about betrayal, corruption and cowardice, and names people. Haitians take these pronouncements seriously as commentary. Karen McCarthy Brown's study of the manbo Mama Lola contains extended material on Ogou's appearances as a form of political and moral speech available to people with no other platform.