Talk:Ọya

Hi, I just added to article Oya the fact Oya is the Goddess of the Niger River and added the reference to Judith Gleason's book OYA. It has a sub title "In Praise of an African Goddess." I'm busy now. Maybe sometime next week I'll have a close look at the article and see if I can add a bit. If anyone wants to do that before I get to it, that's fine by me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gallador (talk • contribs) 00:41, 19 November 2006

Hi, I removed the confusion tag and the non-neutral viewpoint tag. If you still find it confusing or with an imbalanced point of view, perhaps you can say what specifically you find confusing or imbalanced.Gallador (talk) 02:53, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

someone should add that she is technically at least as much the goddess of chaos and transitions as out and out destruction...she's associated with the marketplace, and specifically with the gate of the cemetary/underworld, that is, the transition to from life to death, not the underworld proper. this is almost exclusively an oral tradition (ab'orisha practitioners don't usually write things down, and a lot of what has been written by outsiders is partial or inaccurate) so I'm not sure where to find a source for that, but it's worth noting...actually, I'm going to go ahead and make the additions myself, forgive me if my additions aren't in appropriate format, I'm very new to this.--75.42.11.93 (talk) 04:17, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

I also added a bit more about her iconography, the meaning of her name ("she tears" or "she tore", "Mother of Nine" is a kenning related to the fact the Oya "Niger River" has nine tributaries, not the literal translation of her name.) I found a source for that one, since I was correcting someone. hope I did that right, and as always "every mambo is the head of her own house," so nothing in orisha/loa worship is set in stone. Ashe and Peace.--Feralnostalgia (talk) 04:46, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

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