Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Shrine to Oshun in the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove. Oshun (also Ọṣun, Ochún, and Oxúm) is the Yoruba orisha associated with love, sexuality, fertility, femininity, water, destiny, divination, purity, and beauty, and the Osun River, and of wealth and prosperity in Voodoo. [1] [2] [3] She is considered the most popular and venerated of the 401 ...
Oshun.webm (WebM audio/video file, VP8/Vorbis, length 2 min 11 s, 600 × 480 pixels, 1.28 Mbps overall, file size: 19.99 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
Venus Nadya Oshun [2] (born January 4, 1994), [1] known professionally as Aja Miyake-Mugler [3] [a] or better mononymously as Aja (/ ˈ ɑː ʒ ə / AH-zhə), is an American rapper, reality television personality and drag queen [5] [6] [7] best known for competing on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
Osun (/ ˈ oʊ ʃ uː n /; Yoruba: Ìpínlẹ̀ Ọ̀ṣun), is a state in southwestern Nigeria; bounded to the east by Ekiti and Ondo states for 84 km and for 78 km respectively, to the north by Kwara State for 73 km, to the south by Ogun State for 84 km and to the west by Oyo State, mostly across the River Osun.
Statue of Ogun, Sacred Grove Of Oshun, Osogbo, Nigeria In Yoruba religion, Ogun is a primordial orisha in Yoruba Land. In some traditions, he is said to have cleared a path for the other orisha to enter Earth, using a metal axe and with the assistance of a dog.
Obatala had worked on his task with the assistance of Oshun. He is believed to be successful at creating human beings with water and clay, but during the creation phase he had become drunk with palm wine due to thirst. This caused him to create human beings with disabilities.
This article about a deity is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
There needs to be additional information about alleged syncretism between Oshun and the Blessed Virgin Mary, something which would be inappropriate within the Christian Church, because it would technically constitute a form of idolatry. There is an AFP article which makes this peculiar claim in the context of liturgucal celebrations in the ...