Onisile
Yoruba · mortal · oyo empire · mortal
The lightning is the whole record. An Alaafin of Oyo struck by lightning is not a weather report in the tradition that produced Shango — the fourth Alaafin of Oyo is the thunder orisha, and lightning falling on his successor's person is read, and the reading is that the office has withdrawn from the man. The Oyo Mesi's rejection follows as the formality it was. The sources reachable here do not make that inference explicitly and this record does not assert it as theirs; what they do report is the sequence, struck, paralysed, rejected, and that the sequence ended his reign in the year Gaa took the Bashorunate.
Domains
- sovereignty
- warfare
Sources
- Reference treatments of Onisile's reign, the Dahomey campaigns and his rejection after the lightning strike.