Iansã (Iyãsan)
Name of feminine Orisha of the Yoruba pantheon; in Nigeria she is called “Oyá”, the first to invent the secret of the ancestors (Queen and founder of the secret society of the Egúngún on Earth); the forces (phenomenon) of nature that represent her are: the air, the wind, the thunder and the fire; manifested in the sons-of-saints, the color red prevails in her ritual vestment; she has as emblems (tools), the sword, the baton (rod) with a horse mane or ox hair (the irúkere: symbol of the power over death) and the oge, originated from Fon culture, which features an ox horn that she cares on a chain, hanged on her waist.

Jagas
Ethnic group from the springs of the Nile and Zaire Rivers, in some opinions, the most constant comes from the North of Africa (Sierra Leone); they have reached the Centro-Western Africa around the 14th and 15th centuries; related to the exercise of constant war and they had a kind of society of “initiation” (the adolescents of other lineages were introduced in this warrior society, by the name Kilombo; they are also known as the Imbangalas, being active in the slavery business and in the resistance against the colonialism.

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