![]() When Oshún ejected her twins, the Ibeji, out of her house it was Oyá who took in the Ibeji and raised them as her own. (Some lineages say it was Yemaya who raised the Ibeji.) Oyá has a close relationship with several orishas including Oshun, Ogun and Changó. She carries much sadness about her incapacity to give birth and she dresses with nine different colored scarves around her waist in memory of her lost children. She is known as the “mother of nine” for she gave birth to nine different stillborn children. Oya is a complex orisha who has endured much sadness in her life. Oyá is said to control the air and winds in nature, and often rides storms into battle against her enemies. She does own the cemetery gates and will escort the spirits of the dead to the threshold of the graveyard, but it is actually Obba and Yewá who live in the cemetery itself. She lives in the marketplace and steers the changing fortunes made through business. ![]() Contrary to what many assume, Oyá does not live in the cemetery. Oyá’s aché is fierce, tumultuous, changing and protective. Oyá raises the armies of the dead as her soldiers and is said to use the tornado as her weapon. She wields lightning and rides the winds into battle, often fighting with her machetes side-by-side with her favorite lover, Changó. She is the force of change in nature and in life. ![]() She is the owner of the marketplace, and keeps the gates of the cemetery. Oyá (also Ollá, Yansa or Yansán) is a fierce and powerful female warrior orisha in Santeria. She is the owner of the gates of the cemetery and a ferocious female warrior. Oyá is the orisha of the marketplace, the winds, and change.
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