Ogoun

[Dept of PMM Artists & things]

Ogouns Customary Colours: green, black, red and white

~ Number: Seven

~ Sections of Influence: All metals, warfare and combat, military, blacksmithing, agriculture, civilization generally, transport (vehicles and locomotives), healing

~ Entities connected with:

St. Peter

~ Signs:

Machete, blade, farming tools, anvil and hammer

Offerings: Rum, whiskey (particularly Jack Daniels?), ale, gun powder, tobacco smoking, meats, chili, all kinds of peppers, hot/spicy food.

~ Banquet Day:

June 29th

~ Chakra: 

Root

~ Gem stones:

Hematite, iron pyrite, peridot

~ Creatures:

Solo predators like hawks, rattlesnakes and black panthers. A few referrals claim that he loves canines and wolves.

Entities of Similar Energy: The god Mercury, Kokopelli, Odin, Coyote, all tricksters

Ogoun, above all, is the spirit of metal.

His various other features come from areas by which metal has performed a vital role like war, agriculture, healing and society generally.

Ogoun is really a strong, potent masculine figure.

Orisha which thinks working hard is the solution to just about any difficulty.

Picture him as being the half naked blacksmith, muscular without hair (burned away in the fire).

He’s a warrior and may be asked while in war-time (regardless of whether that be literal or religious) to attend battle.

Due to the utilization of metal, Ogoun is really much an integral part of agriculture.

He owns the plows to till the soil plus the implements from the harvest. Ogoun is known as a very hard working type of man.

He isn’t flashy and doesn’t do just what he is doing for. He would rather use his hands.

Like a blacksmith or welder, he can use fire and metal to generate the essential and the beautiful.

~ Effectively Displaying Respect to Ogoun

Ogoun will take offerings of alcoholic beverages, tobacco (particularly an excellent cigar), meats (prepared only enough that it is still pink), metal filings and gun powder .

Make sure to turn alcohol containers on their side when they’re empty. Ogoun once injured a few drunk men as he believed they weren’t sharing the liquor however the bottles were empty.

~ How to locate Ogoun

Railway tracks, automobile repair shops, machine outlets or other place metal is dealt with, the woodland, gun ranges, army forts (particularly Army and Marine corps).