Yoruba Orishas
Ogun
Iron, war, labour, craftsmanship
In the Yoruba Orishas table used by the Who Watches Over You calculator, Ogun answers to the number 4: the day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit.
Born under Ogun
Ogun clears the path with iron; he was the first to forge and the first to fight. You work, and your work is visible: tools, roads, things made from hard material. You have a temper to match the forge, and it is best spent on labour.
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The psychic number is the day of the month reduced to one digit, so these are the days of any month that answer to 4.
- 4
- 13
- 22
- 31
About the Yoruba Orishas gods
The Orishas of the Yoruba tradition each have sacred numbers of their own, and this table keeps them where they are single digits: Eshu's 3, Oshun's 5, Shango's 6, Yemaya's 7, Obatala's 8, Oya's 9. Orunmila, Babalu-Aye and Ogun take the numbers their domains fit.
The same number in other traditions
- HermesGreek Mythology · Travel, trade, thieves, boundaries
- AnubisEgyptian Mythology · Death, mummification, the afterlife
- LokiNorse Mythology · Trickery, change, cunning, shapeshifting
- JizoJapanese Mythology · Children, travelers, the afterlife
- Ah PuchMayan Mythology · Death, darkness, the underworld
- CaelusRoman Mythology · The heavens, order, the vault of the sky
- AnuBabylonian Gods · The sky, authority, the gods' assembly
- DurgaHindu Deities · Protection, strength, victory over evil
- OgmaCeltic Mythology · Ogham, eloquence, strength, the champion
- RodSlavic Mythology · Kin, ancestors, birth, the order of things
- NüwaChinese Deities · Creation, repair of the sky, marriage, order
- PachamamaInca Mythology · Earth, harvest, mountains, the ground itself
- RashnuPersian Gods · Judgement, justice, the scales, order
- PapaHawaiian Gods · The earth mother, the islands, the ground
- PapatūānukuPolynesian Gods · The earth mother, the ground, all that grows
- TlalocAztec Gods · Rain, lightning, the farmer's order, mountains
- NinhursagSumerian Gods · The mountain mother, birth, the earth, clay
- Kothar-wa-KhasisPhoenician Gods · Craft, building, the forge, the temple
In the Vedic table the number 4 belongs to Goddess Saraswati, through Rahu.
The other Yoruba Orishas gods
Frequently Asked Questions About Numerology
- How is Ogun linked to the number 4?
- Through the psychic number of Vedic numerology: the day of the month you were born, reduced to one digit. Each pantheon on this site assigns one god to each number from 1 to 9, and Ogun holds 4 in the Yoruba Orishas table.
- Is this a traditional Yoruba Orishas belief?
- No. The gods and their domains are traditional; pairing them with birth numbers is a modern numerological reading, and it is presented here as reflection rather than doctrine.
- What if my life path is different from my birth day number?
- They are two different numbers. This page follows the day of the month; the life path uses your whole date of birth and has its own pages under Numbers.