Ògún
c. 900 CE – 2026 CEattested
Yorubaland, West Africa
- Yoruba
Orisha of iron, war and everything made with tools. Worshipped continuously in West Africa and, through the slave trade, across Cuba, Brazil and Haiti.
Known for
- iron and technology
- clearing the path
- oaths sworn on metal
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.