Happy Sango festival: See 15 awesome facts about him ( 15th will amaze you)

"Olufira ba kuso!!!. Sango!" So says a Sango's song I used to listen to. This is to wish all Sango's devotees a cross the world a happy, awesome, exciting Sango festival. May Sango strikes down your enemies and make you victorious in whatever you do.

I tried gathering 15 good facts about Sango, the 15th will amaze you. See below:

1: Sango  holds the key of rain, so he locks & unlocks it whenever he wants.

2: He is a powerful being, very drastic, rigid, strict and unrelenting in judgement. That's why Sango's spirit is involved to recover lost properties.

3: Sango is known for his fearless disposition and ready to quell any uprising.

4: Sango had multiple wives but had one as his favorite, which is  Oya( divinity of wind).

5: Sango is also known as Olubambi, Olukoso ( the king  did not hang himself), Olawale ( wealth in home), Olufira, Oko Oya  ( Oya's husband) , Alado.

6: Koso town, somewhere in Oyo state Nigeria  (southwest)  Is believed to be the abode of Sango.

7: Sango is also a kind of deity that is good when it comes to making "medicine" to cure a lot of problems. Plus he can "PI idan" ( perform magics).

8: Sango  objects of invocation include Edun ara  (thunder stone) and  Ose ( thunder axe).

9: His favorite color is Red

10: Sango devotees are easy to identify via their appearances. They always put on red clothes and have their hair plaited.

11. Sango's  materials of propitation are: Bitter kola, palm oil,  yam flour meal ( Amala), dried okro soup, ram, gin,  tortoise,  mashed bean soup.

12. His taboos are: Adin (palm kernel oil), water yam, kolanut, eku ago  (Ago rat), Ewa sese  ( some kind of white beans).

13: Sango is fed while kneeling or postrating.

14: Sango is celebrated all over  the world every  August of  every year.

15: Free slot to add your fact about Sango via comment.

Once again, happy Sango festival to you all.

Aboru Aboye...