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Aganju
Aganju (known as Agay ú or Agany ú in Latin America) is an Orisha. He is sy ncretized with Saint Christopher in the Cuban religion known as Santería.
Aganju
Aganju is strongly associated with Shango, being either Shango's father or his brother or somehow hav ing ties; both Orishas being members of the deified roy al family of Oy o. Volcanoes, Wilderness, Desert,
River
Member of Orisha
Contents Other Aganju
names
Yoruba religion
Santería (Lucumí/Regla de Ocha)
Venerated Yoruba religion,
in Umbanda,
Candomblé
Candomble, Santeria,
Further reading
Haitian Vodou, Folk
Catholicism

Yoruba religion Region Nigeria, Benin, Brazil

Ethnic Yoruba people, Fon
In the Y oruba areas of Nigeria and Benin Republic, Aganju is known as a deified warrior king from the town of Shaki in the present-day Oy o State of Nigeria. He was said to walk with a sword and is said to
group people
fight by shooting fire, as opposed to Sango who fights with thunderstones and lightning. Shaki is in the sav annah area of northern Y orubaland that has monoliths and boulder outcroppings.
Offspring Sango
Equivalents
Santería (Lucumí/Regla de Ocha)
Catholic Saint Christopher
In Cuba, Aganju is a v olcano deity for the practitioners of Santeria/Lucumi religion. But there are no v olcanoes in either Cuba nor Y orubaland, nor is Aganju associated with v olcanoes among the equivalent
Y oruba people.

Candomblé
In the Afro-Brazilian tradition of Candomblé, Aganjú is worshiped as a manifestation or quality of the Orisha Shango, often called Xango Aganjú. Aganjú represents all that is explosiv e and lacking control. He is also nicknamed "Xangô menino"
among Candomblé practitioners.

Further reading
Jo Anna Hunter, Oro Patak i Aganju: A Cross Cultural Approach Towards the Understanding of the Fundamentos of the Orisa Aganju in Nigeria and Cuba, In Orisa Yoruba God and Spiritual Identity in Africa and the Diaspora, edited by Toyin Falola, Ann
Genova. New Jersey: Africa World Press, Inc.

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