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  2. Oshun - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Orisha - Wikipedia

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    Orishas (singular: orisha) [1 ... It is an affirmation that is used in greetings and prayers, ... Orisha Yorubaland: Oshun. Goddess of Water, Purity, Fertility, Love ...

  4. Yoruba religion - Wikipedia

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    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. [2] 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 ...

  5. Olokun - Wikipedia

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    Olokun (Yoruba: Olókun) is an orisha spirit in Yoruba religion.Olokun is believed to be the parent of Aje, the orisha of great wealth and of the bottom of the ocean. Olokun is revered as the ruler of all bodies of water and for the authority over other water d

  6. Yemọja - Wikipedia

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    She is an orisha, in this case patron spirit of rivers, particularly the Ogun River in Nigeria, and oceans in Cuban and Brazilian orisa religions. She is often syncretized with either Our Lady of Regla in the Afro-Cuban diaspora or various other Virgin Mary figures of the Catholic Church , a practice that emerged during the era of the Trans ...

  7. List of Yoruba deities - Wikipedia

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    Ọbalúayé - orisha of the Earth and strongly associated with infectious disease and healing Erinlẹ̀ - an elephant hunter and physician to the gods Èṣù - Èṣù is the orisha of crossroads, duality, beginnings and balance

  8. Aṣẹ - Wikipedia

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    The head, or orí, is vested with great importance in Yoruba art and thought. When portrayed in sculpture, the size of the head is often represented as four or five times its normal size in relation to the body in order to convey that it is the site of a person's ase as well as his or her essential nature, or iwa. [3]

  9. Ọrunmila - Wikipedia

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    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.