Oshun is a Nigerian Yoruba Orisha, a spirit or deity that reflects one of the manifestations of God in the Ifá and Yoruba religions. She is one of the most popular Orisha’s and the only female irunmole (primordial) sent to set up the world by Olodumare. IleOduduwa the Source is also launching a T-Shirt called Jenmi; Daughter of Oshun.
Oshun is the Orisha of the river and fresh water, luxury and pleasure, sexuality and fertility, beauty and love.
She is the patron saint of the Osun river in Nigeria, which bears her name. Oshun is honored at the Osun-Osogbo Festival a two-week-long annual festival, usually in August, at the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove on the banks of the Osun River, Nigeria. Her devotees leave her offerings and perform ceremonies at bodies of fresh water such as rivers, stream and canals.
Oshun is said to have gone to a drum festival one day and to have fallen in love with Shango. Since that day, Shango has been married to Oba, Oya, and Oshun, though Oshun is said to be his principal wife. Other stanzas in the Ifa Literary Corpus say that she was also married to Orunmila, the Orisha of Wisdom and Divination.
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