Ṣàngó
c. 1300 CE – 2026 CEattested
Oyo, Yorubaland
- Yoruba
A king of Oyo who became the orisha of thunder: one of the clearest cases anywhere of a remembered ruler turning into a god within recorded history.
Known for
- thunder and lightning
- the double axe
- a king become a god
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.