Shango

SHANGO

Real Name: Shango

Class: God (Yoruba pantheon)

Occupation: God of thunder and lightning

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Mawu (mother), Orunmilla (brother)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: The Land of Ife'

First Appearance: (comics) Firestorm II #95 (March, 1990)

Powers: Shango possessed the powers of a god, held sway over the weather, and wielded a war-hammer.

History: (Spectre III #58 (fb, BTS)) - Mawu and the rainbow serpent Oshunmare swirled the void and created form and the Land of Ife'. From Mawu came Olorun, the sun, and from the land the rest of the Yoruba pantheon in Africa.

(Spectre III #58) -Spectre went to the Land of Ife' to ask the Yoruba pantheon where God was, and because he didn't recognize that his authority held little sway in Ife' he started a fight with thunder god Shango. Orunmilla and Olorun broke it up, but did not know of Jehovah, seeing no higher authority than the Yoruba creator Mawu. Spectre said they wasted his time, and left for Olympus

Comments: Adapted to comics by John Ostrander & Tom Mandrake.

Shango is a god in the Yoruba religion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shango