Mace Item Number: K2.74 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Light brown handle with geometric bands. There are two carved faces with iron eyes on each side of the two lobed paddle. A wood loop is at the bottom.

History Of Use

Shango dance wand. A dual personality known as a dancer and the energy of thunder, Shango originally took the form of a despotic human general. He is also known as the divinity of thunder and lightning. Shango is historically a royal ancestor of the Yoruba and was the third king of the Oyo Kingdom before his posthumous deification. This orixá is the centrepiece of the Lukumí religion of the Caribbean and is called Olokun mi ("my dear one"), as he represents the Oyo people of west Africa, the symbolic ancestors of all adherents of the faith.