In Yorubamythology, Aja is an Orisha, patron of the forest, the animals within it and herbal healers, whom she taught their art.
Aja is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in the Southern Sudanese province of Bahr el Ghazal as well as along the Sudanese border in the Central African Republic along the Sapo and Shinko Rivers.
Aja is also an album[?] by the group Steely Dan as well as the first song on the album.
The mythology of the Yorùbá is sometimes claimed by its supporters to be one of the world's oldest widely practised religions.
Yorùbá mythology is only one part of itan — the complex of myths, songs, histories and other cultural concepts which make up the Yorùbá religion and society.
Many ethnic Yorùbá were taken as slaves to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil and the rest of the New World (chiefly in the 19th century, after the Oyo empire collapsed and the region plunged into civil war), and carried their religious beliefs with them.