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Supreme being[edit]
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[edit]
- Orunmila - spirit of wisdom, divination, destiny, and foresight
- Ori - personification of one's spiritual intuition and destiny
Male Àwọn Òrìṣà (Orishas)[edit]
- 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
Female Àwọn Òrìṣà (Orishas)[edit]
- 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
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