Ayao, the Glossary
Ayao is an orisha in the Santería pantheon.[1]
Table of Contents
5 relations: Crossbow, Orisha, Santería, Serpent symbolism, Tornado.
- Wind deities
- Yoruba goddesses
Crossbow
A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an elastic launching device consisting of a bow-like assembly called a prod, mounted horizontally on a main frame called a tiller, which is hand-held in a similar fashion to the stock of a long gun.
Orisha
Orishas (singular: orisha) are divine spirits that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such as Haitian Vaudou, Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Santería and Brazilian Candomblé.
See Ayao and Orisha
Santería
Santería, also known as Regla de Ocha, Regla Lucumí, or Lucumí, is an Afro-Caribbean religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th century.
Serpent symbolism
The serpent, or snake, is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols.
See Ayao and Serpent symbolism
Tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
See Ayao and Tornado
See also
Wind deities
- Aja (orisha)
- Aura (mythology)
- Ayao
- Ayida-Weddo
- Cihuatecayotl
- Egoi
- Fa'atiu
- Feilian
- Fisaga
- Fūjin
- Huitztlampaehecatl
- Huracan
- Isetsuhiko
- Laʻa Maomao
- List of wind deities
- Mata Upola
- Matuu
- Mictlanpachecatl
- Njörðr
- Qʼuqʼumatz
- Raka (mythology)
- Raka-maomao
- Shinatsuhiko
- Tlalocayotl
- Vayu-Vata
- Wind gods
- Yel iyesi
- Zhulong (mythology)