Orisha List

Osanyin is the Spirit of Vegetation, especially when it comes to their healing and/or magickal properties. You can’t make any effective herbal concoction without Osanyin’s help, whether you know it or not. Osanyin has a profound knowledge of, and insight in, the secrets of plants and of whatever you can do with them. Osanyin “works” for all people, not just for his priests and followers; in this sense he belongs in the same category as Orunmila/Ifa and Eshu.

Osanyin is often depicted with one leg, and with one ear shrivelled while the other is truly enormous. Oddly enough he doesn’t hear a darn thing with the large ear, and even the tiniest whisper with the shrivelled one. He is celibate.

Source: Osanyin, the Spirit of Vegetation, United Chaplains Corp

Alternate spellings: Osain, Ossain, Osayin

Oramfe is not in a literal sense a road of Shango: he is a different regional depiction of the Spirit of Lightning. Oramfe is in the Ile Ife area what Shango is on a larger scale in “Yorubaland” in general, and in Oyo and the Diaspora in particular: the Orisha of thunder and lightning.

Source: Shango, The Spirit of Lightning, United Chaplains Corp

Alternate spellings: Chango, Sango

A path of Shango called “King who hunts leopards”.

Source: Shango, The Spirit of Lightning, United Chaplains Corp

Alternate spellings: Chango, Sango

In this aspect Shango was crowned king twice.

Source: Shango, The Spirit of Lightning, United Chaplains Corp

Alternate spellings: Chango, Sango

Mogba is the most senior of all the Shangos, or roads of Shango.

Source: Shango, The Spirit of Lightning, United Chaplains Corp

Alternate spellings: Chango, Sango

Shango as the “Chief who carries fire on his head”.

Source: Shango, The Spirit of Lightning, United Chaplains Corp, UCC

Alternate spellings: Chango, Sango

Yemoja Achaba once was married to Orunmila, who had great respect for her, on account of her being not only very wise, but also very dangerous. She is a great caster of magic spells. She listens by turning her back at you.

Source: Yemoja, The River/Ocean Spirit, United Chaplains Corp

Alternate spellings: Yemaya, Yemonja, Yemalla, Ymoja, Yemana, Imanja, Iamanje, Iemonja, Imanje
Alternate spellings: Achabba, Ashaba, Asaba