Thursday, June 21, 2012

Sango vs Thor vs Zeus

 
We all know Sango as the God of Fire, Lightning and Thunder in Yoruba mythology. He is also one of the most popular Orishas known to Yorubas. Even so much that he is represented in DC comics as a member of Orisha Pantheon!!
But seriously why would our own Sango be less represented that the likes of Zeus of Greek Mythology or Thor of Norse mythology. Lets face it- when I comes to powers, these 3 probably shared spoons as babies.

Zeus has transited from folklore to comics to cartoons to video games to the silver screen and beyond… more than once. He has been re-incarnated again and again and still remains a cool (but cruel) god of Olympus with a wicked lightning bolt.

Same goes for Thor who has from the onset manifested in comics and cartoons before jumping to the big screen in the form of Liam Hemsworth. As we all know The Avengers is now #3 on the All Time Grossers list.

You’ll say “but we have a Sango movie by Wale Adebayo”. Well, yeah. But lets not go there. That was meant to end up in a historian’s DVD archive library. And with 2face calling Sango an alien on The Monique show…who knows?


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