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.infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;background-color: #93C572;">Oshun</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="font-size: 110%;">Goddess of Water, Purity, Fertility, Love, and Sensuality</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">Member of the <a href="/wiki/Orisha" title="Orisha">Orisha</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:WLA_haa_Kneeling_Female_Figure_Devotee_of_Oshun_Yoruba_people_2.jpg" 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title="Yoruba religion">Yoruba religion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dahomey_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Dahomey mythology">Dahomey mythology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vodun" class="mw-redirect" title="Vodun">Vodun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa" title="Santería">Santería</a>, <a href="/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9" title="Candomblé">Candomblé</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haitian_Vodou" title="Haitian Vodou">Haitian Vodou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Vud%C3%BA" title="Dominican Vudú">Dominican Vudú</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Animals</th><td class="infobox-data">Vulture, peacock</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Symbols</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hand_fan" title="Hand fan">Abẹ̀bẹ̀</a>, gold, bronze, amber, pumpkin, honey, <a href="/wiki/Mead" title="Mead">mead</a>, wine, <a href="/wiki/Confections" class="mw-redirect" title="Confections">confections</a>, orange</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Color</th><td class="infobox-data">Yellow, coral, gold, white</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Number</th><td class="infobox-data">Five</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_West_(Nigeria)" title="South West (Nigeria)">Nigeria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Benin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ethnic group</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba people</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fon_people" title="Fon people">Fon people</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Festivals</th><td class="infobox-data">Osun-Osogbo</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #93C572;">Genealogy</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yemoja" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemoja">Yemoja</a> (mother)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chang%C3%B3" class="mw-redirect" title="Changó">Changó</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erinle" class="mw-redirect" title="Erinle">Erinle</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #93C572;">Equivalents</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Canaanite</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Astarte" title="Astarte">Astarte</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Greek</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Norse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Freyja" title="Freyja">Freyja</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frigg" title="Frigg">Frigg</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Roman</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Hittite</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sauska" class="mw-redirect" title="Sauska">Sauska</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Templo_Osun3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Templo_Osun3.jpg/220px-Templo_Osun3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Templo_Osun3.jpg/330px-Templo_Osun3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Templo_Osun3.jpg/440px-Templo_Osun3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="472" data-file-height="707" /></a><figcaption>Shrine to Oshun in the <a href="/wiki/Osun-Osogbo" title="Osun-Osogbo">Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Oshun</b> (also <b>Ọṣun</b>, <b>Ochún</b>, and <b>Oxúm</b>) is the <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> <a href="/wiki/Orisha" title="Orisha">orisha</a> associated with love, sexuality, fertility, femininity, water, destiny, divination, purity, and beauty, and the <a href="/wiki/Osun_River" title="Osun River">Osun River</a>, and of wealth and prosperity in Voodoo.<sup id="cite_ref-Monaghan2014_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Monaghan2014-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pinn2006_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pinn2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Murrell2009_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murrell2009-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is considered the most popular and venerated of the 401 orishas.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mythology, Oshun was once the <a href="/wiki/Queen_consort" title="Queen consort">queen consort</a> to King <a href="/wiki/Shango" title="Shango">Shango</a> of <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Deified" class="mw-redirect" title="Deified">deified</a> following her death, honored at the Osun-Osogbo Festival, a two-week-long annual festival that usually takes place in August, at the <a href="/wiki/Osun-Osogbo_Sacred_Grove" class="mw-redirect" title="Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove">Oṣun-Osogbo Sacred Grove</a> in <a href="/wiki/Osogbo" title="Osogbo">Osogbo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-OkayAfrica2015_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OkayAfrica2015-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-en_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-en-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Murrell2009_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murrell2009-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A violín is a type of musical ceremony in Regla de Ocha performed for Osún. It includes both European classical music and Cuban popular music.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythology">Mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oshun&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the Ifa Literary Corpus, Oshun was the only female Irunmole (primordial spirit) sent to assist <a href="/wiki/Shango" title="Shango">Shango</a> to create the world by <a href="/wiki/Olodumare" class="mw-redirect" title="Olodumare">Olodumare</a>, the Supreme God. The other spirits sent ignored Oshun, who went to Shango for guidance. One version of the story claims that female spirits were tempted to take matters into their own hands, but all of their creative attempts failed because they acted without male spiritual leadership. This version was possibly inspired Abrahamic religions, with a patriarchal influence.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another version, one more consistent with the beginning of the story, claims that the male spirits attempted to make the world without female influence, and this exclusion is what caused the world to fail. Regardless of the version, the myth ends with Shango forcing the other spirits hand to respect Oshun as they would him.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following her death, Olodumare granted her the powers of an orisha.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Worship">Worship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oshun&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Worship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yoruba">Yoruba</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oshun&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Yoruba"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Oshun is the divine patroness of the <a href="/wiki/Osun_River" title="Osun River">Osun River</a> in Nigeria, which bears her name. The river has its source in <a href="/wiki/Ekiti_State" title="Ekiti State">Ekiti State</a> in the west of Nigeria and passes through the city of <a href="/wiki/Oshogbo" class="mw-redirect" title="Oshogbo">Osogbo</a>, where <a href="/wiki/Osun-Osogbo" title="Osun-Osogbo">Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove</a>, the principal sanctuary of the deity, is located.<sup id="cite_ref-Murrell2009_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murrell2009-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Oṣun is honored at the Osun-Osogbo Festival, a two-week-long annual festival that usually takes place in August, at the Oṣun-Osogbo Sacred Grove on the banks of the river.<sup id="cite_ref-OkayAfrica2015_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OkayAfrica2015-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-en_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-en-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brazil">Brazil</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oshun&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Brazil"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ọshun was adopted into <a href="/wiki/Afro-Brazilian_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Afro-Brazilian religion">Afro-Brazilian religions</a>, retaining her role as the goddess of love, beauty, and waters, with the addition of power over wealth and prosperity. Followers seek help for romantic problems from Oshun; the orishá is also responsible for marriage and other relationships. As the orishá of financial life, she is also called the "Lady of Gold". This referred to copper at one time for being the most valuable metal of the time. Oshun is worshiped at rivers and waterfalls, and more rarely, near mineral water sources. She is a symbol of sensitivity and is identified by weeping.<sup id="cite_ref-en_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-en-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Candomblé"><span id="Candombl.C3.A9"></span>Candomblé</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oshun&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Candomblé"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9" title="Candomblé">Candomblé</a> Bantu, Oshun is called Nkisi Ndandalunda, the Lady of Fertility and Moon. Hongolo and Kisimbi have similarities with Oshun, and the three are often confused. </p><p>In Candomblé Ketu, Oshun is the deity of fresh water; the patron of gestation and fecundity; and receives the prayers of women who wish to have children and protect them during pregnancy. Osun also protects small children until they begin to speak; she is affectionately called "Mamãe" ("Mama") by her devotees.<sup id="cite_ref-en_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-en-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Plants associated with Osun in Brazil are aromatic, sweet, and often yellow, reflecting the qualities of the Orisha. They include mints (<i>Lamiacaea</i>). Osun is associated with the folha-de-dez-réis (<i>Hydrocotyle cybelleta</i>), a plant of the pennywort family. Many species are brilliant yellow, reflecting Osun's association with gold and wealth. She is also associated with folha-da-fortuna, or <i>Kalanchoe pinnata</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-al_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-al-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ozun">Ozun</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oshun&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Ozun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Ozun</b> is another major <a href="/wiki/Orisha" title="Orisha">Orisha</a> that is distinct from Oṣun, the latter who is also called "Oshun" and "Ochún" in the <a href="/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa" title="Santería">Santería</a> religion of the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> and <a href="/wiki/Trinidad" title="Trinidad">Trinidad</a>) brought over by <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> people during the transatlantic slave trade. While Ozun is a masculine Orisha associated with <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a>, Ochún is syncretized with <a href="/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Charity_del_Cobre" class="mw-redirect" title="Our Lady of Charity del Cobre">Our Lady of Charity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oshun&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arugba_Olokun.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="An Arugba at the Osun-Osogbo festival"><img alt="An Arugba at the Osun-Osogbo festival" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Arugba_Olokun.jpg/76px-Arugba_Olokun.jpg" decoding="async" width="76" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Arugba_Olokun.jpg/114px-Arugba_Olokun.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Arugba_Olokun.jpg/153px-Arugba_Olokun.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3021" data-file-height="4745" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">An Arugba at the Osun-Osogbo festival</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arugba_Osun.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="An Arugba at the Osun-Osogbo festival"><img alt="An Arugba at the Osun-Osogbo festival" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Arugba_Osun.jpg/84px-Arugba_Osun.jpg" decoding="async" width="84" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Arugba_Osun.jpg/126px-Arugba_Osun.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Arugba_Osun.jpg/168px-Arugba_Osun.jpg 2x" data-file-width="711" data-file-height="1016" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">An Arugba at the Osun-Osogbo festival</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Caryb%C3%A8,_rilievi_degli_orixas,_oxun.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="A wood carving of Oshun by Carybé"><img alt="A wood carving of Oshun by Carybé" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Caryb%C3%A8%2C_rilievi_degli_orixas%2C_oxun.JPG/41px-Caryb%C3%A8%2C_rilievi_degli_orixas%2C_oxun.JPG" decoding="async" width="41" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Caryb%C3%A8%2C_rilievi_degli_orixas%2C_oxun.JPG/62px-Caryb%C3%A8%2C_rilievi_degli_orixas%2C_oxun.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Caryb%C3%A8%2C_rilievi_degli_orixas%2C_oxun.JPG/83px-Caryb%C3%A8%2C_rilievi_degli_orixas%2C_oxun.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1156" data-file-height="3344" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A wood carving of Oshun by <a href="/wiki/Caryb%C3%A9" title="Carybé">Carybé</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oshun&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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Print, pg.395.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oshun&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Ajiabde, G. Olusola. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110823192758/http://opus.ub.uni-bayreuth.de/volltexte/2005/188/pdf/WP_N_4_Negotiating_Performance.pdf"><i>Negotiating Performance: Osun in the Verbal and Visual Metaphors</i></a>, Bayreuth, Working Papers, 2005.</li> <li>Afolabi, Kayode. <i>Osun Osogbo - Sacred People and Sacred Places</i>, Charleston 2006.</li> <li>Badejo, Diedre, <i>Oshun Seegesi: The Elegant Deity of Wealth, Power, and Femininity</i>, Asmara 1996.</li> <li>De La Torre, Miguel A., "Dancing with Ochún: Imagining How a Black Goddess Became White," in <i>Black Religion and Aesthetics: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora</i>, Anthony Pinn, ed., Cambridge University Press, pp. 113–134.</li> <li>Fakayode, Fayemi Fatunde, <i>Osun: The Manly Woman</i>, Athelia Henrietta Press 2004.</li> <li>Murphy, Joseph M.; Sanford, Mei-Mei. <i>Osun Across the Waters: A Yoruba Goddess in African and the Americas</i>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.</li> <li>Probst, Peter, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MLVL1Cz9L8UC">Osogbo and the Art of Heritage : Monuments, Deities, and Money</a></i>. 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