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The orisa are grouped as those represented by the color white, who are characterized as tutu "cool, calm, gentle, and temperate"; and those represented by the colors red or black, who are characterized as gbigbona "bold, strong, assertive, and easily annoyed". Like humans, orishas may have a preferred color, food, or object.
Nàná Bùkùú - orisha of the river and of the earth; Ọbà - first wife of Ṣàngó and orisha of domesticity and marriage; Ọtìn - orisha of the river Otín, she is hunter and wife of Erinlẹ̀; Olókun - orisha of the ocean; Ọ̀ṣun - orisha who presides over love, intimacy, beauty, wealth, diplomacy and of the Osun river
A symbol of the Yoruba religion (Isese) with labels Yoruba divination board Opon Ifá. According to Kola Abimbola, the Yorubas have evolved a robust cosmology. [1] Nigerian Professor for Traditional African religions, Jacob K. Olupona, summarizes that central for the Yoruba religion, and which all beings possess, is known as "Ase", which is "the empowered word that must come to pass," the ...
Ogun or Ogoun (Yoruba: Ògún, Edo: Ògún, Portuguese: Ogum, Gu; also spelled Oggun or Ogou; known as Ogún or Ogum in Latin America) is a Yoruba Orisha that is adopted in several African religions. Ògún is a warrior and a powerful spirit of metal work, [1] [2] [3] as well as of rum and rum-making.
Ọrunmila (Yoruba: Ọ̀rúnmìlà, also Ọrúnla [1] or Orúla in Latin America) is the Orisha of Wisdom, knowledge, and Divination, is the creator of Ifá and Babalawo concept. He is a high priest of Ifá.
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 orishas. [4]
Ayao is an orisha in the Santería pantheon. She is the orisha of the air. Ayao is considered to reside in both the forest and in the eye of the tornado. She works closely with Osain and is a fierce warrior. Ayao has among her implements a crossbow with a serpent, a quill, and nine stones. She is commonly placed next to her sister, Oya. Her ...
Ọbà (known as Obá in Latin America) is the orisha of the River Oba, the source of which lies near Igbon, where her worship originates. [1] During the wars of the 19th century, her centers of worship moved to the more secure town Ogbomosho. [2] She is traditionally identified as the senior wife of Shango (the third king of the Oyo Empire and ...