Opará (Apará) in yoruba religion is the deity of rivers and waterfalls, sometimes confused as a quality (avatar) of the Orisha Oshum, but for the most of Yoruba, she is a deity on her own, very warrior-like. Òpárá is, on one hand, gentle and sweet, calm as the water of a river and sometimes angry and aggressive like "the waterfall where the waters violently hit the rocks". Many mysteries surround this deity, which has the characteristics of Oshun and Oiá at the same time, or one and the other...