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In Yoruba mythology, Ọba or Obbá is the first wife of Shango, the second king of the Oyo Empire and the Yoruba god of thunder and lightning. Obbá is a river-goddess (Orisha). She was the daughter of Yemaja and one of the wives of Shango. She offered Shango her ear to eat, and he scorned her. Grieving, she became the Obba river which intersects with the Osun river (Osun was another wife of Shango) at turbulent rapids, a symbol of the rivalry between the two wives.1 The Obba River flows through Iwo, that is why the Iwo people are called the son of the River Obbá (Iwo Olodo Obá). The real rivalry was between Oba and Oya not between Oshun and Obbá. Obbá was the only legitimate wife of Shango.
References
- ^ Migene González-Wippler, Santeria: The Religion (Llewellyn, 1994: ISBN 1567183298)
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