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.
