Living with the Gods
with Susanne Wenger and Shangodare
Susanne Wenger, the now 86-year-old Austrian artist, accompanied her husband in the early fifties to live among the Yoruba people in Nigeria, West Africa. Soon she was taken in by the leading class of priests and initiated into various cults. Just as her most important teacher Aajagemo predicted and with the Oracle’s confirmation, the Yoruba gods entrusted her to restore the ruined shrines of the Sacred Groves in Oshogbo - the traditional home of the river goddess Oshun. By virtue of Susanne Wenger’s merging of ritual and art, the Sacred Groves of Shogbo have survived the onslaught of Christianity and Islam unharmed, which have helped keep traditional Yoruba rituals alive.