African Mythology
- Agurzil, Berber god of war
- Apedemak, Nubian lion-headed warrior god
- Kokou, powerful Yoruba warrior god
- Maher, Ethiopian god of war
- Ogoun, Yoruba deity who presides over fire, iron, hunting, politics and war
- Oya, Yoruba warrior-goddess of the Niger River
Read more about this topic: List Of War Deities
Famous quotes containing the words african and/or mythology:
“A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,—a denizen of the woods. “The pale white man!” I do not wonder that the African pitied him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)