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Oshun is often depicted as a beautiful woman adorned with gold and dressed in vibrant yellow or amber-coloured garments, reflecting her association with wealth, prosperity, and joy. She is associated with honey and sweets, symbolizing her sweetness and the pleasures of life.
What items are associated with Oshun? ›
Oshun is often depicted as a beautiful woman adorned with gold and dressed in vibrant yellow or amber-coloured garments, reflecting her association with wealth, prosperity, and joy. She is associated with honey and sweets, symbolizing her sweetness and the pleasures of life.
What flower represents Oshun? ›
Osun is associated with the folha-de-dez-réis (Hydrocotyle cybelleta), 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 Kalanchoe pinnata.
What represents Oshun? ›
Oshun is commonly called the river orisha, or goddess, in the Yoruba religion and is typically associated with water, purity, fertility, love, and sensuality. She is considered one of the most powerful of all orishas, and, like other gods, she possesses human attributes such as vanity, jealousy, and spite.
What are the signs of Oshun? ›
Oshun goddess symbols are often associated with rain, water, gold, the color yellow, and birth. Everything connected to femininity can represent Oshun, including dance, love, beauty, fertility, children, and romance.
What colors represent Oshun? ›
Her colors are represented as a constant spectrum of gold, amber, yellow and orange. She can be found near bodies of water and always carries a mirror. She likes sweet things and is often shown wearing a veil which allows her to see the world eternally as a sweet heavenly vision of beauty.
What number is associated with Oshun? ›
Her traditional colors are yellow, gold, coral, amber, and she associated with the number five. Oshun often carries a mirror so that she can admire her beauty. She loves honey, sunflowers, oranges, cinnamon, and pumpkin.
What happens when Oshun gets mad? ›
Destroyer: Oshun is not only seen as a creative power of fertility but also as an angry and retributive goddess who will punish the earth or the inhabitants of the earth for wrongdoing. Oshun uses her power over water to punish people when she's angry.
How do you know if you are a daughter of Oshun? ›
She is one of the most popular and venerated orishas. If you see the number 5 a lot (my two most recent apartments were on the 5th floor), are attracted to the color yellow or gold and enjoy sweets, specifically honey, then you too may be a child of Oshun.
Why does Oshun wear yellow? ›
Oshun originally assumed the color white but “a popular story … says that she was very tidy and would go to the river constantly to wash her white garment. Eventually, the dress turned yellow from washing in the water, and this is how yellow became one of her colors” (733).
Khiresha (daughter of Goddess Oshun)
What Catholic saint represents Oshun? ›
List of Key Santería Deities
| Oricha | Catholic Saint | Domain of Influence |
|---|
| Oshun (Ochun) | St. Philomena | Love and Beauty |
| Oya (Olla) | St. Catherine of Sienna | Winds and Storms |
| Chango (Shango) | St. Barbara | Fire and Thunder |
| Yemaya (Yemoja) | St. Martha | Motherhood and Sea |
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Oshun turned herself in a beautiful peaco*ck. She flew off towards the heaven. It was so far away, that her feathers begin to fall off. As she reached the sun, her colorful feathers were scorched and all the delicate feathers burned off her head.
What does Oshun rule? ›
Oshún rules over the sweet waters of the world, the brooks, streams and rivers, embodying love, fertility. She also is the one we most often approach to aid us in money matters. She is the youngest of the female orishas but retains the title of Iyalode or great queen.
What is Oshun day? ›
In Cuba, Oshun's day is September 8. She is syncretized with the Virgin Caridad del Cobre, the patron saint of Cuba. In Catholic tradition, it's the day of the Nativity of Mary.
What animals are associated with Oshun? ›
The meaning of Oshun to the Yoruba people shifted and changed depending on the group or dynamic of the myth. Many animal symbols have been attached to Oshun including the peaco*ck, the skunk, and the vulture for their various good qualities.
What is the essence of Oshun? ›
Oshun is the essence of love, sweetness and good cheer, beauty and flowing joy.
