orisha

Examples

• All

• Perhaps because the god is both human and divine, he, more than any other of the orisha, encompasses elements of both good and bad character.

  Academic text (1998)

• The primary color is red, representing the orisha Shango.

  Academic text (1996)

• "What is important about the dressing of the orisha here is the act itself," Robert Friedman has written.

  Academic text (1993)

• And I wonder why Shango, the African orisha, didn't ask for my life as well.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Back then, all of life was in the sky where Olorun lived with many other powerful orishas.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The town of Irawo, center of the cult of the orisha Oko, was of particular interest to Bill.

  Academic text (1994)

• Oya, fiercest of the female orishas, liked her drink strong.

  Fiction book (2001)

• And far below that, the watery mists, the domain of Olukun, a female orisha.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The Shango shrine at Agbeni is perhaps the most elaborate of all the existing Yoruba orisha shrines.

  Academic text (1998)

• In Yoruba religion, the orisha Oshun is often associated with rivers and fertility.

Synonyms

O

oricha

vsorisha

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A spirit in the Yoruba religion that people worship and give gifts to

is used in Yoruba and West African worship rather than Afro-Caribbean practice

Surface Forms

Etymology