Aja (Yoruba mythology)

Aja (Yoruba mythology)

In Yoruba mythology, Aja is an Orisha, patron of the forest, the animals within it and herbal healers, whom she taught their art.

Among the Yoruba, aja also refer to a "wild wind". It's believed that if someone is carried away by aja, and then returns,he becomes a powerful "jujuman" or (babalawo). The journey supposedly will have a duration of between 7days to 3months, and the person so carried is thought to have gone to the land of the dead or heaven (0run).


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