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List of Yoruba deities

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The following is a list of Yoruba Orisha, or deities.

Contents

Supreme being

The Supreme God has three manifestations:

  • Eledumare - the Supreme Creator.
  • Ọlọ́run - the ruler of the Heavens.
  • Olofi - the conduit between Orún (Heaven) and Ayé (Earth)

    • Metaphysical Personifications or Spirits

  • Orunmila - spirit of wisdom, divination, destiny, and foresight
  • Ori - personification of one's spiritual intuition and destiny

    • Male Àwọn Òrìṣà (Orishas)

  • Aganjú - Orisha of volcanoes, the wilderness and rivers
  • Babalú Ayé - Orisha of the Earth and strongly associated with infectious disease and healing
  • Erinlẹ̀ - Orisha of medicine, healing, and comfort, physician to the gods
  • Èṣù - trickster, psychopomp and Orisha of crossroads, duality, beginnings, travelers, fertility and death
  • Ibeji - twin Orisha of vitality and youth
  • Kokou - a violent warrior Orisha
  • Ọbàtálá - creator of human bodies; Orisha of light, spiritual purity, and moral uprightness
  • Oduduwa - Orisha of Humans
  • Ògún - Orisha who presides over iron, fire, hunting, politics and war
  • Oko - Orisha of agriculture
  • Osanyin - Orisha of the forest
  • Oṣùmàrè - divine rainbow serpent associated with creation and procreation
  • Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì - Orisha of the hunt and forest
  • Ṣàngó, also Shango - Orisha of thunder and lightning
  • Sopona - Orisha of smallpox, also known as Babalu Aye

    • Female Àwọn Òrìṣà (Orishas)

  • Aja - Orisha of the forest, the animals within it, and herbal healing
  • Aje - Orisha of wealth
  • Ayao - Orisha of air
  • Egungun-oya - Orisha of divination
  • Mawu - creator goddess, associated with the sun and moon
  • Nana Buluku - androgynous Supreme Creator
  • Ọbà - first wife of Shango and Orisha of domesticity and marriage
  • Olókun - patron Orisha of the descendants of Africans who were carried away during the Atlantic Slave Trade or Middle Passage
  • Ọ̀ṣun - Orisha who presides over love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy
  • Ọya - Orisha of the Niger River; associated with wind, lightning, fertility, fire, and magic
  • Yemọja - a mother goddess; patron deity of women, and the Ogun river

    • References

    List of Yoruba deities Wikipedia
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