Oya: The Storm Queen

Oya is the Orisha of storms, transformation, and the ancestors — the most powerful female
Orisha in the Yoruba tradition and the guardian of the gate between the living and the dead.
Where Oshun brings sweetness, Oya brings change. Where Yemoja brings nurturing, Oya
brings revolution. She is the wind before the storm, the lightning that precedes the thunder,
and the force that sweeps away everything that no longer serves.
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola — an initiated Ifa priest and founder of OrishaUniversity.com,
endorsed by the Araba Agbaye of Ile-Ife, Nigeria — presents the complete Oya corpus: her
Patakis, her Odu, her sacred relationship with Shango, her role as guardian of the Egungun
(ancestral masquerade), her colors, symbols, and offerings, and her teachings for those
navigating radical transformation.
Oya does not destroy. She liberates. And those who work with her energy learn that the
storm is not the enemy — the storm is the medicine.
Learn more at OrishaUniversity.com

This book is Book 6 of the Orisha Library. Your next step: Shango: The Thunder King — after the storm breaks, the thunder speaks.

About the Author
Robert S. Shumake, publishing as Ajarn Shaman Shu, has lived two lives in one — the builder and the priest — and his books are where the two meet. He rose from a Ford factory floor to become founding president and CEO of Inheritance Capital Group, a Black Enterprise-ranked private equity firm, served as honorary consul for Botswana and Tanzania, and founded Inheritance Media Group, owner of more than 300 publications produced by an AI-run newsroom. In spirit, each tradition that initiated him gave him a name: Buddhist Ajarn in the Theravada and Vajrayana lines, Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola in Ifá, and Shri Surya Narayana Swamikal in the Tamil Siddha line. He is the founder of Soul Tribes International Ministries and of Buddha Digital Temple and its universities — Orisha University, Buddha University, and Shiva University. He authored Detroit’s Proposal E, the 2021 ballot initiative that decriminalized entheogenic plants in Detroit, and is the author of more than 140 published books and 86+ DOI-registered academic publications. His philosophy: the Double Bottom Line — make a profit, and make a difference. Robertshumake.biz