Ogoun is the deity of fire and red is his color. He likes to be saluted with rum, not with the more traditional water. Often this rum is poured on the ground then lit and the fumes pervade the peristyle. The sword, or much more commonly, the machete is his weapon and he often does strange feats of poking himself with it, or even sticking the handle in the ground, then mounting the blade without piercing his skin. Ogoun is identified with St. Jacques, the warrior general, and is often in the guise of a revolutionary war general.
Fertility is regarded as a unified principle, equally held by male and female forces.
Thus Dumballah is united to his Ayida. Agwe has his counterpart in La Sirene, the Marasa, the twins are contradictory and complementary forces of nature and so on. But Voodoo has a most special place for Erzulie, the loa of beauty, the loa who is so uniquely human since she is the differentiating force between human and all other creation. She is the ability to conceptualize, the ability to dream, the artistic ability to create. Erzulie is not a loa of elemental forces, but THE loa of ideal dreams, hopes and aspirations.