How did you see Oggún? With a tiger skin suit he rules the mountain

Oggun He is one of the major deities of the Yoruba Pantheon, seen as the master and lord of iron, representative of blacksmiths, metals, hunters, wars and mountains.

It is the second Orisha to be received behind Eleggua and next to him, ochosi the vigilante and Osun the one who watches over heads.

Oggún owns the roads, as well as the mountains. There he hides to work metal after feeling the fury of obbatala and curse himself.

He is a tireless warrior accustomed to forced labor, he does not rest and lives to fight and defend men.

His symbol is the Embelebobo machete, a tool with which he faces all his enemies, but which he also uses to make his way through the mountains when he needs to look for his brothers.

Oggún and the attributes that represent him

Due to its proximity to all metals, Oggún's attributes include representations of different irons, as well as elements that speak of hard and laborious work and that show him as the patron of blacksmiths.

Among them we find:

machetes
Padel rackets
Peaks
Hammers
Mandarrias
Anvils
guatacas
Rakes
Barrettes
Sickle
Scythe
Saw
Clove
Knife And Spear
High-pressure guns
Machine guns
Pumps
Canyons

All these attributes indicate him as a hard-working and fighter Orisha, which is why they are considered extremely important, especially when making specific requests.

The Patron of Blacksmiths Oggún and his clothing

Oggún, as a fierce fighter and hunter of the mountain, carries on his shoulder a bag made of tiger skin and adorned with many snails.

His costume is purple and his cap is flattened, and this is how he dresses when he comes down to dance in his cautious mime of hunter and blacksmith.

He also has a long palm fiber festoon on his belt (called mariwo), which symbolizes protection against evil and is very important in the Yoruba religion, which is also used at the entrances of religious homes to delimit the energies of the world. internal from external.