According to Yoruba oral historiography, Sango was the fourth ruler of Oyo and a descendant of Nupe queen. His reign was tumultuous and he reportedly committed suicide, a cultural aberration that is cast in the phrase Oba Ko So, the King does not hang. Sango’s historic and mythical life reflects the complex nature of Yoruba rulership as well as its cultural richness. Of particular interest are the relationships between Sango and his wives, Oya, Osun, and Oba as well as the relationship between the wives themselves. Like Sango himself, these wives are wrapped in the cultural clothe of oral literary and religious mystery with several strands of historical reality. This paper will explore select oral literary narratives about Sango and his relationship to his wives drawing from the Ifa, Osun, and Sango-pipe. It will use as its centerpiece, an oral poem collected from the Osun priestesses in Osogbo, as an example of the configuration of and interaction between the genders in Yoruba thought.