Changó is the oricha of thunder, lightning, fire, drumming, dance, and virile kingship, the most flamboyant and popular figure of the Lucumí pantheon. He is remembered euhemeristically as the fourth Aláàfin of the Yoruba city of Ọ̀yọ́, a proud and powerful ruler who, in the founding myth of his epithet Obakoso, did not hang but ascended to become an oricha and speak through thunder. He casts polished neolithic celts, the 'thunderstones' (edun ara), where lightning strikes, and his emblems are the double-bladed axe (oshé), the inverted mortar throne, and the batá drums whose patron he is. His colors are red and white, his number six. Cuban patakí name Aggayú as his father and Yemayá as the mother or foster-mother who raised him, though he is also linked to Obatalá as the king of his household; the genealogies vary. His consort is the storm-oricha Oyá, and the river-oricha Ochún is his celebrated lover. In Cuba he is syncretized, in a striking gender reversal, with Saint Barbara.