Who is the ORISHA OLOKUN?
In Yoruba mythology, the attitudes of the gods, the control they establish on each force of Nature, decides the order and importance of the elements. Olokun, therefore, inspires respect and fear, as the powers of destruction unleashed by the ocean's depths are immeasurable.
"Resenting a Humanity which did not render him the homage he deserved, Olokun decided to punish it by burying it in the Ocean. At his orders, immense waves began to invade the land ... the ocean swelled up, darkened, infinite, and people who lived furthest from the coast saw, terrified, a horizon of water mountains running towards them. They implored Obatala to intercede in time ... as the deafening mass of water had almost reached them. Obatala put himself between Olokun and his creatures. Olokun came on a huge wave, carrying his abede, a silver fan. Obatala left his opade, his scepter, and ordered him to halt. Olokun respected Obatala, who made him promise to abandon his plan to annihilate humanity. But when the sea is choppy, when threatening waves rise up because Olokun is angry, it is thought that if Olokun were not chained up in the bottom of the ocean, he would swallow up the land.
Excerpt from: http://ileife.org/oba/olokun.html
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