Interpretation and a story: Fierce Oya, warrior goddess of wind, charges forth with machetes in hand, preceding her earth god husband, Shango. Together they storm into battle, uprooting trees, destroying buildings and razing everything in their path. They come in the form of hurricane, tornado, thunder and wind storm, and they leave nothing untouched. All is devastated, within and without. Oya cuts through the debris and all that is stagnant with her swords of truth. She is feared for her destructive force yet worshiped as the proponent for structural change in all things. She strips us to our foundation so that we may rebuild. Oya clears the path for new beginnings. Oya presides over our transitions from life to death and all changes in between. We inhale and exhale Oya with every breath we take. She is our first breath at birth and our last breath at death.
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