Sogbo
Fon · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Fon god of thunder and lightning, chief of the sky/thunder pantheon.
Parentage
- parent: Mawu-Lisa
Domains
- thunder lightning
- rain
- justice
Powers
- Hurls thunder and lightning
- brings the fertilizing rain along with thunder and lightning
- smites liars, thieves, witches and the wicked with the thunderbolt
Epithets
- Xɛvioso The thunder-god of Hevie; head of the sky/thunder (So) pantheonHerskovits, Melville J. Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom. J.J. Augustin, 1938, vol. II, on the thunder pantheon. (ethnography)
- So, the thunder Thunder/lightning itself; the ram-voiced sky-strikerHerskovits, Melville J. & Frances S. Dahomean Narrative. Northwestern University Press, 1958, thunder-pantheon narratives. (ethnography)
Relations
- equated with: Thunder God of the StormThe same West African deity under its Gbe/Yoruba reflex (So/Sogbo/Shango).West African vodun/òrìṣà cognates: the same deity across the Gbe (Ewe, Fon) and Yoruba traditions (M. Herskovits, Dahomey, 1938; G. Parrinder, West African Religion, 1961; P. Verger, Notes sur le culte des Orisa et Vodun, 1957) (secondary)
- equated with: ShangoThe same West African deity under its Gbe/Yoruba reflex (So/Sogbo/Shango).West African vodun/òrìṣà cognates: the same deity across the Gbe (Ewe, Fon) and Yoruba traditions (M. Herskovits, Dahomey, 1938; G. Parrinder, West African Religion, 1961; P. Verger, Notes sur le culte des Orisa et Vodun, 1957) (secondary)
- sibling: DanFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Mawu-Lisa) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: GuFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Mawu-Lisa) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: LegbaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Mawu-Lisa) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: SakpataFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Mawu-Lisa) per the figures' cited genealogy.
Sources
- existence: Mythopedia, Vodun Religion; Herskovits, Dahomey (1938) (secondary)