Core tenet of Yoruba Religion
The orisha are living forces with personalities.
Ogun is iron and every blade's edge; Yemoja is the sea and motherhood; Shango is thunder and kingship. One approaches them as persons, not concepts.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The orisha are not abstractions with domains but personalities with histories, preferences, temperaments, and quarrels — Shango is proud and quick, Yemoja is protective and deep, Oya is sudden. Many are understood as humans who became orisha, and each has foods, colors, drum rhythms, and prohibitions attached. Devotees have a specific orisha who "owns their head," identified through divination, and the relationship is personal and lifelong rather than a matter of general worship.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
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The dharmapalas — the wrathful protectors.
Buddhism · figure
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Many paths, one goal: knowledge, devotion, action, discipline.
Hinduism
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Life is everywhere, and it is graded.
Jainism
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The Shechinah — the presence that went into exile.
Judaism · figure
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The image is permitted — and the church fought a civil war to decide it.
Christianity
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The jinn.
Islam · figure
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