Yoruba Orishas
Oya
Wind, storms, transformation, death
In the Yoruba Orishas table used by the Who Watches Over You calculator, Oya answers to the number 9: the day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit.
Born under Oya
Oya is the wind that comes before the storm and the keeper of the cemetery gate. You bring change, suddenly and completely, and you are not afraid of endings. Your courage is the courage to let the old thing go so the new one can breathe.
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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 9.
- 9
- 18
- 27
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
- AresGreek Mythology · War, courage, bloodlust, civil order
- HorusEgyptian Mythology · Sky, war, protection, kingship
- ThorNorse Mythology · Thunder, strength, protection, storms
- BishamontenJapanese Mythology · War, warriors, authority, protection
- Buluc ChabtanMayan Mythology · War, sacrifice, violence, conflict
- MarsRoman Mythology · War, farming, guardianship of Rome
- NergalBabylonian Gods · War, plague, the underworld, summer heat
- KartikeyaHindu Deities · War, victory, the commander of the gods
- The MorríganCeltic Mythology · War, fate, sovereignty, the crow
- PerunSlavic Mythology · Thunder, war, oak, the warrior sky
- Guan YuChinese Deities · War, loyalty, righteousness, brotherhood
- IllapaInca Mythology · Thunder, lightning, weather, war
- TishtryaPersian Gods · Sirius, rain, the battle with drought
- PeleHawaiian Gods · Volcanoes, fire, land made from lava
- RūaumokoPolynesian Gods · Earthquakes, volcanoes, the seasons, the unborn
- HuitzilopochtliAztec Gods · War, the sun's warrior, the hummingbird, Tenochtitlan
- NinurtaSumerian Gods · War, the plough, the hero, Lagash
- BaalPhoenician Gods · Storm, thunder, war, the rider of clouds
In the Vedic table the number 9 belongs to Lord Kartikeya, through Mars.
The other Yoruba Orishas gods
Frequently Asked Questions About Numerology
- How is Oya linked to the number 9?
- 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 Oya holds 9 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.